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M2M Challenges and Opportunities in 4G

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4G technology includes a profile for M2M communications in order to improve the efficiency of the foreseeable connection of hundreds of devices to the broadband wireless networks. These devices impose different requirements to those of human communications, most significantly their bursty nature and the small payload usually associated with each transmission. Due to this, typical signalling procedures overload the network causing a very low efficiency for these communications. This paper is a review of current literature, commenting on challenges that LTE technology must overcome to be a true opportunity for M2M devices.

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This work has been partially funded by Spanish Junta de Andalucía under Project TIC-6897, Ingenia (806/39.5949), the Spanish Government (ITC-20111046) and Universidad de Málaga - Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.

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  1. ETSI Telecomunicación, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain

    J. Poncela & J. M. Moreno-Roldan

  2. Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan

    M. Aamir & Bilal A. Alvi

  3. Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan

    M. Aamir & Bilal A. Alvi

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Poncela, J., Moreno-Roldan, J.M., Aamir, M. et al. M2M Challenges and Opportunities in 4G. Wireless Pers Commun 85, 407–420 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-2746-y

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