Enabling narrow-band IOT communications

无线通信已经成为我们日常生活的关键方面，其中包括语音、视频、监视、健康监测、运输的应用是由当前和未来通信技术提供的许多应用中的一个。近来，互联网技术自其早期阶段以来已经经历了巨大的变化，并且它已经成为一种重要的通信基础设施，其目标是随时随地的连接。目前，随着“机器”被纳入通信领域，出现了一种全新的通信范式。随着机器对机器（M2M）的引入，下一代互联网或物联网（IoT）必须提供将不同对象连接在一起的设施，无论它们是否属于人类。物联网中M2M通信的最终目标是在分布在广泛覆盖区域的所有机器之间构建全面的连接。通信机器的预计大规模引入必须针对需要广泛的要求和特性（诸如移动性支持、可靠性、覆盖范围、所需数据速率、功耗、硬件复杂性和设备成本）的应用进行规划和适应。M2M通信的其他规划和设计问题包括未来的网络架构、用户数量的大幅增长以及实现物联网概念的各种设备要求。该提案是Summit Tech的一部分。Inc.使用IMS架构支持NB-IoT的计划。在这方面，该提案将解决窄带物联网（NB-IOT）技术的实施和适应性的重要方面，这是第三代合作伙伴计划（3GPP）委员会最近考虑的新标准。不同的方面，如IP多媒体子系统（IMS）的实现问题和可能的适应，作为一个全IP简单而有效的架构，将在NB-IOT的背景下进行研究。在这项合作工作中，Summit的主要目标是促进这些新技术的标准化。

Wireless communication has become a key aspect of our daily life where applications including voice, video, surveillance, health monitoring, transportation are among the many applications provided by current and future communication technologies. Recently, the Internet technology has undergone enormous changes since its early stages and it has become an important communication infrastructure targeting anywhere, anytime connectivity. Currently, an entirely new paradigm of communication has emerged with the inclusion of "machines" in the communications landscape. With the introduction of machine-to-machine (M2M), the next generation Internet or the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has to offer the facilities to connect different objects together whether they belong to humans or not. The ultimate objective of M2M communications in IoT is to construct comprehensive connections among all machines distributed over an extensive coverage area. The projected massive introduction of communicating machines has to be planned for and accommodated with applications requiring wide range of requirements and characteristics such as mobility support, reliability, coverage, required data rate, power consumption, hardware complexity, and device cost. Other planning and design issues for M2M communications include the future network architecture, the massive growth in the number of users, and the various device requirements that enable the concept of IoT. This proposal is part of Summit Tech. Inc. initiatives to support NB-IoT using an IMS architecture. In that, the proposal will address the important aspects of the implementation and adaptability of the narrow-band IOT (NB-IOT) technology, a new standard recently considered by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) committee. Different aspects such as the implementation issues and possible adaptation of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), as being an all-IP simple yet efficient architecture, will be investigated in the context of NB-IOT. In this collaborative work, Summit's main objective is to contribute to the standardization of these new technologies.