System and methods for system operation for narrowband-LTE for cellular IoT

1. A base station (BS) operable to communicate with at least one Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) device on a wireless network, comprising:

one or more processors to:

generate a first transmission for a first CIoT device on a first Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) wireless communication channel that occupies only a first single physical resource block (PRB), the first transmission including a set of Narrowband System Information (NB-SI), wherein the set of NB-SI comprises one of a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal (NB-PSS) or a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal (NB-SSS);

generate a second transmission for a second CIoT device on a second NB-IoT wireless communication channel that occupies only a second single PRB, the second transmission including the set of NB-SI; and

generate at least one of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) transmission or an LTE Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) transmission for a set of subcarriers corresponding to a set of frequency resources that occupies a plurality of central PRBs within a wireless communication system bandwidth,

wherein the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel and the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel correspond to portions of the wireless communication system bandwidth different from the set of frequency resources.

2. The BS of claim 1 , wherein the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel is a primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel, and wherein the one or more processors are further to:

generate a Narrowband Synchronization Channel (NB-SCH) transmission on the primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

3. The BS of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

generate a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel (NB-PBCH) transmission for the primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the NB-PBCH transmission carrying a Narrowband Master Information Block (NB-MIB) configured to include at least one of: a number of available Downlink (DL) NB-IoT wireless communication channels; a location within an LTE wireless communication system bandwidth of each available NB wireless communication channel; a number of antennas available for DL transmissions by the BS; at least partial scheduling and resource allocation information for a Narrowband System Information Block Type I (NB-SIB 1); or an indicator identifying at least one NB-IoT wireless communication channel as one of an in-band channel deployed within the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth or a stand-alone channel deployed different from the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth.

4. The BS of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

generate a next transmission for the first CIoT device for an NB-IoT wireless communication channel that is different from the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel and is determined in accordance with a predetermined frequency hopping pattern.

5. The BS of claim 1 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

generate a Narrowband Physical Downlink Control Channel (NB-PDCCH) transmission for the first CIoT device on the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the NB-PDCCH transmission indicating a Narrowband Physical Downlink Shared Channel assignment (NB-PDSCH) on the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel different from the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

6. Non-transitory machine readable storage media having machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

generating for a base station (BS), a first transmission for a first Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) device on a first Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) wireless communication channel that occupies only a first single physical resource block (PRB), the first transmission including a set of Narrowband System Information (NB-SI), wherein the set of NB-SI comprises one of a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal (NB-PSS) or a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal (NB-SSS);

generating a second transmission for a second CIoT device on a second NB-IoT wireless communication channel that occupies only a second single PRB, the second transmission including the set of NB-SI; and

generating at least one of a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS) transmission or an LTE Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS) transmission for a set of subcarriers corresponding to a set of frequency resources that occupies a plurality of central PRBs within a wireless communication system bandwidth,

wherein the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel and the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel correspond to portions of the wireless communication system bandwidth different from the set of frequency resources, and

wherein the NB-PSS is different from the LTE PSS and the NB-SSS is different from the LTE SSS.

7. The machine readable storage media of claim 6 , wherein the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel is a primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the operations further comprising:

generating a Narrowband Synchronization Channel (NB-SCH) transmission on the primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

8. The machine readable storage media of claim 6 , the operations further comprising:

generating a Narrowband Physical Broadcast Channel (NB-PBCH) transmission for the primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the NB-PBCH transmission carrying a Narrowband Master Information Block (NB-MIB) configured to include at least one of: a number of available Downlink (DL) NB-IoT wireless communication channels; a location within an LTE wireless communication system bandwidth of each available NB-IoT wireless communication channel; a number of antennas available for DL transmissions by the BS; at least partial scheduling and resource allocation information for a Narrowband System Information Block Type 1 (NB-SIB 1); or an indicator identifying at least one NB-IoT wireless communication channel as one of an in-band channel deployed within the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth or a stand-alone channel deployed different from the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth.

9. The machine readable storage media of claim 6 , the operations further comprising:

generating a next transmission for the first CIoT device for an NB-IoT wireless communication channel that is different from the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel and is determined in accordance with a predetermined frequency hopping pattern.

10. The machine readable storage media of claim 6 , the operations further comprising:

generating a Narrowband Physical Downlink Control Channel (NB-PDCCH) transmission for the first CIoT device on the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the NB-PDCCH transmission indicating a Narrowband Physical Downlink Shared Channel assignment (NB-PDSCH) on an NB-IoT wireless communication channel different from the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

11. A Cellular Internet of Things (CIoT) device operable to communicate with a base station (BS) on a wireless network, comprising:

one or more processors to:

process, from a first Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) wireless communication channel of at least two of a plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels, a first transmission of two transmissions from the BS, each of the two transmissions from the BS generated on a respective NB-IoT wireless communication channel, and each of the two transmissions from the BS comprising one of: a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal (NB-PSS), an NB Secondary Synchronization Signal (NB-SSS), a Narrowband Master Information Block (NB-MIB), or a Narrowband System Information Block (NB-SIB); and

extract time-and-frequency synchronization and system information from the transmission,

wherein the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels are within a wireless communication system bandwidth; and

wherein the at least two of the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels each occupy only a respective single physical resource block (PRB) and correspond to portions of the wireless communication system bandwidth different from a set of frequency resources, and wherein the set of frequency resources occupy a plurality of central PRBs and are used to transmit Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Primary Synchronization Signals (PSS) and LTE Secondary Synchronization Signals (SSS).

12. The CIoT device of claim 11 , wherein one of the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels is a primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel, and wherein the one or more processors are further to:

extract synchronization information from a Narrowband Synchronization Channel (NB-SCH) transmission; and

process the NB-SCH transmission on the primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

13. The CIoT device of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

extract information from an NB-MIB transmission; and

wherein the NB-MIB transmission is configured to include one or more of: a number of available Downlink (DL) NB-IoT wireless communication channels; a location within an LTE wireless communication system bandwidth of each available DL NB-IoT wireless communication channel; a number of antennas available for DL transmissions by the BS; at least partial scheduling and resource allocation information for a Narrowband System Information Block Type 1 (NB-SIB 1); or an indicator identifying at least one NB-IoT wireless communication channel as one of an in-band channel deployed within the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth or a stand-alone channel deployed different from the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth.

14. The CIoT device of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

process the first transmission on the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel; and

process a next transmission following the first transmission on a second NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel being different from the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

15. The CIoT device of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

process a Narrowband Physical Downlink Control Channel (NB-PDCCH) transmission on the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel;

extract a channel assignment for a Narrowband Physical Downlink Shared Channel (NB-PDSCH) transmission from the NB-PDCCH transmission, the channel assignment indicating a second NB-IoT wireless communication channel different from the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel; and

process the NB-PDSCH transmission on the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

16. The CIoT device of claim 11 , wherein the one or more processors are further to:

process a next transmission for an NB-IoT wireless communication channel that is different from the one of the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels and is determined in accordance with a predetermined frequency hopping pattern.

17. Non-transitory machine readable storage media having machine executable instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

processing, for a Cellular Internet-of-Things (CIoT) device, and from a first Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) wireless communication channel of at least two of a plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels, a first transmission of two transmissions from a base station (BS), each of the two transmissions from the BS generated on a respective NB-IoT wireless communication channel, and each of the two transmissions from the BS comprising one of: a Narrowband Primary Synchronization Signal (NB-PSS), a Narrowband Secondary Synchronization Signal (NB-SSS), a Narrowband NB Master Information Block (NB-MIB), or a Narrowband NB System Information Block (NB-SIB); and

extracting time-and-frequency synchronization and system information from the transmission,

wherein the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels are within a wireless communication system bandwidth; and

wherein the at least two of the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels each occupy only a respective single physical resource block (PRB) and correspond to portions of the wireless communication system bandwidth different from a set of frequency resources, and wherein the set of frequency resources occupy a plurality of central PRBs and are used to transmit Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Primary Synchronization Signals (PSS) and LTE Secondary Synchronization Signals (SSS).

18. The machine readable storage media of claim 17 , wherein one of the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels is a primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the operations further comprising:

extracting synchronization information from a Narrowband Synchronization Channel (NB-SCH) transmission; and

processing the NB-SCH transmission on the primary NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

19. The machine readable storage media of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:

extracting information from an NB-MIB transmission,

wherein the NB-MIB transmission is configured to include one or more of: a number of available Downlink (DL) NB wireless communication channels; a location within an LTE wireless communication system bandwidth of each available NB-IoT wireless communication channel; a number of antennas available for DL transmissions by the BS; at least partial scheduling and resource allocation information for a Narrowband System Information Block Type 1 (NB-SIB 1); or an indicator identifying at least one NB-IoT wireless communication channel as one of an in-band channel deployed within the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth or a stand-alone channel deployed different from the LTE wireless communication system bandwidth.

20. The machine readable storage media of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:

processing the first transmission on the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel; and

processing a next transmission following the first transmission on a second NB-IoT wireless communication channel, the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel being different from the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

21. The machine readable storage media of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:

processing a Narrowband Physical Downlink Control Channel (NB-PDCCH) transmission on the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel;

extracting a channel assignment for a Narrowband Physical Downlink Shared Channel (NB-PDSCH) transmission from the NB-PDCCH transmission, the channel assignment indicating a second NB-IoT wireless communication channel different from the first NB-IoT wireless communication channel; and

processing the NB-PDSCH transmission on the second NB-IoT wireless communication channel.

22. The machine readable storage media of claim 17 , the operations further comprising:

processing, for the CIoT device, a next transmission for an NB-IoT wireless communication channel that is different from the one of the plurality of NB-IoT wireless communication channels and is determined in accordance with a predetermined frequency hopping pattern.