5g Narrowband Internet of Things - With Satellite Connectivity and Artificial Intelligence

5G Narrowband Internet of Things: With Satellite Connectivity and Artificial Intelligence focuses on one crucial aspect of 5G - Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT). This edition explores its architecture, protocol stack, and latest enhancements, including satellite connectivity, and cloud-based infrastructure.

List of contents

1. Introduction 16
Outline of This Book 17
Chapter 2: 4G and 5G Systems 19
LTE History 19
5G Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IOT) 20
NB-IoT Use Cases and Applications 22
Massive number of low-throughput devices: 24
Longer battery lifetime: 24
Low Latency and Data Reporting: 25
LTE Protocol Stack and Architecture 26
NB-IoT Mode of Operation 32
Dense NB-IoT Deployment
NB-IoT with Satellite Communication
Chapter 3: Radio Resource Control Layer 34
5G Frame Format for FDD & TDD
Signaling and Data Radio Bearer 35
RRC states 36
eNodeB Identities 36
UE behavior in IDLE mode 37
PLMN Selection 37
Cell Selection 37
Cell Reselection 37
Suitable Cell 38
Cell Reselection for Inter-Frequency and intra-frequency Cells 40
Cell Selection for Inter-RAT
RRC Procedures and behavior in CONNECTED mode 41
Master Information Block (MIB) 41
System Information Block Type 1 42
Other System Information Block Type 44
System Information Modification Period 46
Paging 47
RRC Direct Indication information 48
RRC Connection Establishment 48
RRC Connection Resume 50
Initial Security Activation 52
RRC Connection Reconfiguration 53
Enhanced RRC Connection Reconfiguration
RRC Connection Re-establishment 54
RRC Connection Release 56
RRC Connection Suspend
RRC Connection Release
DL Information Transfer 57
UL Information Transfer 58
UE Capability Transfer 59
Radio Link Failure 61
Multi-carrier Support 61
Control Plane and Data Plane Cellular IoT (CIoT) Optimization 62
Power Saving Mode (PSM) 63
Discontinuous Reception (DRX) in IDLE mode 64
Extended Discontinuous Reception (e-DRX)
Chapter 4: Packet Data Convergence Protocol Sublayer 66
PDCP Architecture: 66
PDCP Transmission 69
Data and Signaling Radio Bearer Transmission on Uplink 69
Ciphering and Deciphering 71
Enhanced Ciphering and Deciphering
Integrity Protection and Verification 72
Header Compression and Decompression 73
Enhanced Header Compression and Decompression
PDCP Reception 74
Data Radio Bearer Reception on Downlink RLC AM 74
Data Radio Bearer Reception on Downlink RLC UM 76
Signaling Radio Bearer Reception on Downlink 77
Chapter 5: Radio Link Control Protocol Sublayer 78
Transparent Mode 78
Unacknowledgement Mode 79
Acknowledgement Mode 80
RLC PDU Format 81
RLC Transmission and Reception 81
TM Transmitting Side 81
UM Receive Side 82
Example of an RLC Entity AM Transmitter and Receiver 85
AM Transmitting Side 86
AM ReTransmitting Side 88
AM Transmitting Side for Polling STATUS PDU 90
AM Receive Side 93
AM RLC STATUS PDU transmission by Receive Side 96
RLC SDU Discard 96
Example of an RLC Entity AM Transmitter and Receiver 96
Error Correction and Retransmission protocols for Dense deployment
Segmentation and Reassembly for small data transmission
Chapter 6: Medium Access Control Protocol Sublayer 98
MAC Procedures 99
Random Access Procedure 99
Random Access Exchange 100
Contention Resolution 105
Timing Advance Command 107
Data Transfer 108
Downlink Data Reception 108
Uplink Data Transmission 108
Discontinuous Reception (DRX) 109
Extended Discontinuous Reception (DRX)
MAC PDU Assembly and Multiplexing 112
Static Scheduler 112
Scheduling Request 112
C-RNTI MAC Control Element 112
Buffer Status Reporting (BSR) 112
MAC PDU Format 115
Low-latency scheduling
Advanced Hybrid ARQ (HARQ)
Grant-Free Uplink Access
Power Saving Mode (PSM)
Chapter 7: Physical Layer 118
FDD Frame Structure 118
Channel Frequency 120
Channel and Transmission Bandwidth 120
Channel Spacing 124
Carrier Frequency and Channel Raster 124
Mapping of Physical Channel 125
Physical Cell ID 126
Downlink Physical Channels and Structure 126
Spatial Multiplexing and Transmit Diversity 150
Uplink Physical Channels and Structure 150
Advanced Coverage enhancement techniques
Adaptive Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS)
Link budget and reliable connection
Power control Procedures
Timing and synchronization Procedures
Chapter 8: Quality of Service 162
Characteristics of QCI 167
Quality of Service for UE using CIoT EPS Optimization 168
QoS Challenges for IoT 169
References: 170

About the author

Hossam Fattah received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada in 2003. He received his Masters of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada. He completed his B.Sc. degree in Computers and Systems Engineering from AlAzhar University, Cairo, Egypt in 1995. Between 2003 and 2011, he was in the academia and technical consultant. He worked with Spirent Communications, NJ, USA from 2011 - 2013.
From 2013 to 2021, he was with Microsoft, Redmond, USA. While at Microsoft, he worked with the core networking team and Azure Cloud networking engineering team on different networking products and services within Windows, Windows Server, and Azure Cloud.
Since 2022, he has been the 5G ORAN Stack Architect at Lattice semiconductor driving strategies and innovation in the ORAN Stack.
He is also affiliated with University of Washington, Tacoma, USA teaching graduate courses and collaborating on 5G research and innovations.
He is the author of two books titled "5G LTE Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT)" and "LTE Cellular Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT): Practical Projects for the Cloud and Data Visualization". He has many technical publications in conferences, journal, and patents. He is a registered professional Engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers, British Columbia, Canada.
His Research interest include wireless communications and radio networks and protocols, cellular Quality of Service, Radio Resource management, traffic and packet scheduling, network analytics, and mobility.

Product details

• Authors: Hossam Fattah
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9781041020875
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4102087-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; COMPUTERS / Information Technology, COMPUTERS / Networking / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Sensors, Electrical Engineering, Computer architecture & logic design, Computer architecture and logic design, WAP (wireless) technology, Distributed systems, Instruments & instrumentation engineering, Instruments and instrumentation