Standards for the IoT
December 2, 2016
With news reports out this week, that the 3GPP standard is set to be in 35% of low power wide area (LPWA) network connections by 2020, our Working Group RAN3 Chairman - Philippe Reininger - has given a timely presentation at the IoT Business & Technologies Congress (November 30, in Singapore), outlining the latest progress made on specifications for the IoT market.
3GPP now has what he described as a 'portfolio of technologies' that 3GPP operators can use to address market needs. The presentation helps to explain and summarise the major features - eMTC, NB-IOT and EC-GSM-IoT - completed in 3GPP Release 13.
However, the main part of the presentation covered the enhancements that will be published in Release-14, which is due for completion by June 2017.
eMTC enhancements (aka. LTE Cat M1);
- Support for positioning
- Support for Multicast
- Mobility for inter-frequency measurements
- Higher data rates
- Support for VoLTE
NB-IOT enhancements;
- Agreement on NB-IOT positioning
- Support for Multicast
- Power consumption and latency reduction
- Non- Anchor PRB enhancements
- Mobility and service continuity enhancements
- New Power Class(es)
See also, Enhanced DRX for NB-IOT and eMTC.
EC-GSM-IoT enhancements
- Various radio interface enhancements
Further reading:
- Philippe Reininger, RAN3 Chairman's presentation is on-line...here.
- IoT Standards Part II: 3GPP Standards, by Sami TABBANE (ITU training, 2018)
- www.telecompaper.com article "3GPP tech to account for 35% of LPWA connections by 2020" (December 1, 2016).
Contact for this article: Kevin FLYNN, Marketing and Communications Officer, 3GPP