TY - JOUR AU - Marwat, S.N.K. AU - Mehmood, Y. AU - Khan, A. AU - Ahmed, S. AU - Hafeez, A. AU - Kamal, T. AU - Khan, A. TI - Method for handling massive IoT traffic in 5G networks JF - SENSORS J2 - SENSORS-BASEL VL - 18 PY - 2018 IS - 11 SN - 1424-8220 DO - 10.3390/s18113966 UR - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/32200663 ID - 32200663 N1 - Department of Computer Systems Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Peshawar, 25120, Pakistan Communication Networks, University of Bremen, Bremen, 28359, Germany Department of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar (Jalozai Campus), Nowshera, 24240, Pakistan Cited By :9 Export Date: 14 September 2021 Correspondence Address: Marwat, S.N.K.; Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Pakistan; email: safdar@uetpeshawar.edu.pk AB - The ever-growing Internet of Things (IoT) data traffic is one of the primary research focuses of future mobile networks. 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards like Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE-A) have been designed for broadband services. However, IoT devices are mainly based on narrowband applications. Standards like LTE-A might not provide efficient spectrum utilization when serving IoT applications. The aggregation of IoT data at an intermediate node before transmission can answer the issues of spectral efficiency. The objective of this work is to utilize the low cost 3GPP fixed, inband, layer-3 Relay Node (RN) for integrating IoT traffic into 5G network by multiplexing data packets at the RN before transmission to the Base Station (BS) in the form of large multiplexed packets. Frequency resource blocks can be shared among several devices with this method. An analytical model for this scheme, developed as an r-stage Coxian process, determines the radio resource utilization and system gain achieved. The model is validated by comparing the obtained results with simulation results. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. LA - English DB - MTMT ER -