Chapter 2: Global cellular IoT standards

Abstract

This chapter first presents the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), including its ways of working, its organization, and its linkage to the world's largest regional standardization development organizations (SDOs).

Then, after providing a basic overview of the 3GPP cellular systems architecture, 3GPP's work on Cellular IoT is introduced. This introduction includes a summary of the early work performed by 3GPP in the area of massive machine-type communications (mMTC). The Power Saving Mode (PSM) and extended Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) features are discussed together with the feasibility studies of the technologies Extended Coverage Global System for Mobile Communications Internet ...

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