Abstract
NB-IoT is the first 3GPP technology that has been specifically developed for IoT. In this paper, we will introduce the most important NB-IoT features included in Release 14, Release 15, and Release 16 and the need for testing of NB-IoT solutions. This paper is focused on demonstrating the potential of the new experimentation features included into the TRIANGLE testbed to support testing and benchmarking of Narrowband Internet of Thing (NB-IoT) solutions. TRIANGLE provides an experimentation framework that offers a high level of abstraction using a framework that allows for defining and executing experiments in a very straightforward way. The experimentation framework developed as part of the TRIANGLE project optionally keeps experimenters far from the low level configuration of the infrastructure and provides scenarios which reproduce realistic conditions.
Highlights
The testing of UEs (User Equipments) has been done with expensive equipment or by testing houses
We focus on Narrowband Internet of Thing (NB-IoT) testing and the extension of the TRIANGLE testbed to support it
A new radio access technology was designed for NB-IoT in 3GPP Release 13, the standardization work has continued adding multiple features to build a richer self-contained ecosystem around NB-IoT
Summary
The testing of UEs (User Equipments) has been done with expensive equipment or by testing houses. TRIANGLE offers a high level access with predefined scenarios via a web Portal introduced in [6] and a low level access based, where all the parameters are configurable plugins as well as the control of mobile devices and applications running at the UEs. For the sake of better understanding of the potential of the testbed, we illustrate measurement results on specific configurations; it is not the intention of the paper to focus on the specific results of the experiments but on the capabilities exposed to the experimenters in the IoT area with limited access to dedicated equipment. The TRIANGLE testbed is focused on the testing of third party solutions looking for understand the behavior of the devices under different network conditions and validate the performance obtained at the application layer.
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