Department of telecommunications, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Bandery 12, 79013 Lviv, Ukraine.
Department of e-Business, School of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
Sensors (Basel). 2020 Apr 19;20(8):2324. doi: 10.3390/s20082324.
This paper proposes a modified architecture of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network to provide services for the Internet of Things (IoT). This is achieved by allocating a narrow bandwidth and transferring the scheduling functions from the eNodeB base station to an NB-IoT controller. A method for allocating uplink and downlink resources of the LTE/NB-IoT hybrid technology is applied to ensure the Quality of Service (QoS) from end-to-end. This method considers scheduling traffic/resources on the NB-IoT controller, which allows eNodeB planning to remain unchanged. This paper also proposes a prioritization approach within the IoT traffic to provide End-to-End (E2E) QoS in the integrated LTE/NB-IoT network. Further, we develop "smart queue" management algorithms for the IoT traffic prioritization. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach, we performed a number of experiments using simulations. We concluded that our proposed approach ensures high end-to-end QoS of the real-time traffic by reducing the average end-to-end transmission delay.
本文提出了一种改进的长期演进(LTE)移动网络架构,以提供物联网(IoT)服务。这是通过分配窄带宽并将调度功能从 eNodeB 基站转移到 NB-IoT 控制器来实现的。应用了一种用于分配 LTE/NB-IoT 混合技术的上下行资源的方法,以确保从端到端的服务质量(QoS)。该方法考虑了在 NB-IoT 控制器上调度流量/资源,这允许 eNodeB 规划保持不变。本文还提出了一种在物联网流量内进行优先级排序的方法,以在集成的 LTE/NB-IoT 网络中提供端到端(E2E)QoS。此外,我们为物联网流量优先级排序开发了“智能队列”管理算法。为了证明我们方法的可行性,我们使用模拟进行了多项实验。我们的结论是,我们提出的方法通过降低平均端到端传输延迟,确保了实时流量的高端到端 QoS。