Analysis of the Effect of the Reliability of the NB-Iot Network on the Intelligent System

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 112809 - 112820
• Main Authors: Jia, Gangyong, Zhu, Yujie, Li, Youhuizi, Zhu, Zongwei, Zhou, Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Data transmission; Indicators; intelligent system; Intelligent systems; Interference; Internet of Things; Narrowband; NB-IoT; Network reliability; New technology; Ns-3 simulation; Power consumption; Power demand; Reliability; Reliability analysis; Signal to noise ratio; Software reliability; System reliability
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2932870

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) in recent years, the popularization of different segments of IoT has emerged. The IoT technology is slowly evolving toward intelligence, convenience, low power consumption, large connectivity, and wide coverage. This evolution is significantly attributed to the emergence of Narrowband of Internet of Thing (NB-IoT). NB-IoT is an emerging technology with wide-coverage, large-connection, low-power consumption, and low-costs. The intelligent system based on NB-IoT, an important branch of the IoT field, has various functions and is widely used. However, the intelligent system based on NB-IoT also generates reliability problems, caused by hardware, software, and networks. Therefore, this study deeply evaluates the impact of the NB-IoT network on the reliability of IoT intelligent systems. We simulated the real-world scenario by using the ns-3 simulator, and then carried out several data transmission experiments and recorded the relevant data of transmission performance indicators, finally calculated and analyzed the reliability results by using quantitative reliability indicators. The three main experiments respectively change the transmission distance of the NB-IoT signal, increase the access amount of the NB-IoT signal in the system, and increase the obstacles in the transmission path. The experimental results are represented by the signal-to-interference ratio (SINR), throughput rate, packet loss rate, and correct rate of the received data block and loss. Finally, we verify the impact of the NB-IoT network on system reliability on the basis of the experimental results.