BACKGROUND

NarrowBand-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology is based on Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) communication standards developed by the 3rdGeneration Partnership Project (3GPP) to provide wireless communication services to NB-IoT devices. An NB-IoT device, also referred to as a resource-constrained device, often has limited data processing capabilities, limited data storage capacity, and limited energy reserve in the form of a battery. For example, an NB-IoT may be a mobile sensor that operates predominately in sleep mode. However, the sensor may wake up once every few hours to send small packets of sensor data to an application server. In order to support these resource-constrained devices, NB-IoT technology introduces non-Internet Protocol (IP) communication over a control plane, in which data may be sent over the control plane of a wireless communication session without the use of IP data packet headers.

