eprintid: 10067512 rev_number: 23 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/06/75/12 datestamp: 2019-02-11 18:10:39 lastmod: 2021-12-27 23:04:47 status_changed: 2019-02-11 18:10:39 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Xu, T creators_name: Masouros, C creators_name: Darwazeh, I title: Waveform and Space Precoding for Next Generation Downlink Narrowband IoT ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F46 keywords: Narrowband 5G, NB-IoT, eNB-IoT, precoding, multi-antenna, multi-user, MIMO, non-orthogonal, waveform, software defined radio, prototyping. note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: Narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) was introduced by 3GPP in low power wide area network (LPWAN) to support low power and wide coverage applications. Since it follows long term evolution (LTE) standard, its signal quality is guaranteed and its deployment is straightforward via reusing existing infrastructures. Current NB-IoT supports low data rate services via using low order modulation formats for the purpose of power saving. However, with the increase of data rate driven applications, next generation NB-IoT would require data rate enhancement techniques without consuming extra battery power. In this work, a downlink framework, using a non-orthogonal signal waveform for next generation enhanced NB-IoT (eNB-IoT), is proposed and experimentally tested in both single-antenna and multi-antenna systems. In the single-antenna scenario, waveform precoding is used to pre-equalize the self-created inter carrier interference (ICI) distorted signal waveform. For the multiantenna multi-user scenario, both waveform and antenna space precoding have to be used. Measured results show that in both single-antenna and multi-antenna systems, the proposed signal waveform in eNB-IoT can increase data rate by ∼11% compared with NB-IoT occupying the same spectral resource in similar receiver computational complexity. date: 2019-01-31 date_type: published publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1627490 lyricists_name: Darwazeh, Izzat lyricists_name: Masouros, Christos lyricists_name: Xu, Tongyang lyricists_id: IDARW65 lyricists_id: CMASO14 lyricists_id: TXUXX28 actors_name: Xu, Tongyang actors_id: TXUXX28 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: IEEE Internet of Things Journal issn: 2327-4662 citation: Xu, T; Masouros, C; Darwazeh, I; (2019) Waveform and Space Precoding for Next Generation Downlink Narrowband IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10067512/1/jiot2019-mu-mimo-sefdm-ng-iot.pdf