NB-IoT: Analytical Perspective of IP Data Delivery Variants

Abstract

Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is generally used for transmission of IP data and Non IP data from sensing device to a designated IoT server. Further, the designated server takes decision and accordingly send data to necessary devices for some designated activity. Two communication architectures such as control plane based and user plane based IP data deliveries are possible. In this work, we analytically find the delay to send NB-IoT IP data considering control plane as well as user plane of LTE-A network. Further, we compare the delay considering these two variants of data deliveries. Comparison results show that delay of the control plane based data delivery can be $33\%$ more than the delay of user plane based data delivery.