RT Conference Proceedings T1 NB-IoT latency evaluation with real measurements A1 Segura, David A1 Khatib, Emil Jatib A1 Munilla-Fajardo, Jorge A1 Barco-Moreno, Raquel K1 Redes de banda ancha - Congresos K1 Transmisión digital - Congresos AB In the 3GPP LTE Release 13, NB-IoT was standardized to provide wide-area connectivity for IoT. To optimize network signaling and power consumption, control plane (CP) optimization was introduced. In Release 15, to support infrequent small data transmissions, Early Data Transmission (EDT) was also included, in which the data are sent during the random access procedure. Thus, this paper analyses the latency performance of the different NB-IoT optimizations for the CP. The study, carried out in a real device, has been performed for different packet sizes and coverage levels. Evaluation results show lower latencies for EDT, particularly with small packets, where a reduced transport block is used, being more efficient from a network point of view. Additionally, we verify that EDT, unlike Release 13 optimization, fulfills 3GPP latency requirement for extreme coverage. YR 2022 FD 2022-07 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24794 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24794 LA spa NO This work has been partially funded by the Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital y la Unión Europea - NextGenerationEU, en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia y el Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia under project MAORI and, by the Junta de Andalucía and European Union (ERDF) under grant UMA-18-FEDERJA-172. And by Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech. DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga RD 19 ene 2026