Dominic Richter : Practical Performance Analysis of NB-IoT across Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks

 Bachelor Thesis  Dominic Richter  2026II  Abstract  The standardization of 3GPP Release 17 Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) enables standardized Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) devices to communicate directly with satellite constellations, theoretically addressing the 85% global cellular coverage gap. However, treating these high-latency, power-constrained satellite links as direct equivalents to terrestrial networks introduces significant system inefficiencies. This thesis prese