A student from the Department of Mathematics publishes a scientific research paper.
Nwar Alaa Al-Samak, a fourth-year student in the Department of Mathematics, published a scientific paper titled: “Evaluating the Functions of NB-IoT Technology in Smart Meter Applications”
As part of the proceedings of the INFUS 2025 (International Conference on Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems) conference, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 29-31, 2025, under the umbrella of the book series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (Volume 1529).
The paper highlights the significance of smart meters as a fundamental pillar in the development of smart cities and the automation of industrial systems, due to the precise monitoring and efficient management of energy consumption they enable. From this perspective, this paper aims to evaluate the efficiency of NB-IoT technology as one of the most important infrastructures supporting the Internet of Things in this field.
This paper focuses on developing a simulation environment using MATLAB to analyze the performance of NB-IoT, with a particular emphasis on key indicators: spectrum efficiency, resource utilization, and session interruption rate. In addition to studying multiple scenarios with a number of devices ranging from 240 to 3,150 meters and data sizes ranging from 100 to 350 bytes, the research summarized a set of results. The simulations showed that the number of devices and data size directly impact all performance indicators, highlighting the practical challenges facing smart meter applications when they expand and become widespread.
