Simulating Massive IoT Environmental Monitoring Scenario using OMNeT++

Cellular Internet of Things technology (IoT) has been widely adopted across the globe, with 2G and 3G connectivity enabling many early IoT applications. Higher bandwidth, lower latency, and increased support for large volumes of devices per cell emerged to the market with 4G offerings, and they are being further enhanced with the arrival of 5G networks. As there will be a wide range of IoT use cases in the future, the market is now expanding toward Massive IoT (MIoT) deployment. Some of the technologies proposed for MIoT implementation are NarrowBand IoT (NB-IoT), Enhanced Coverage GSM for IoT (EC-GSM-IoT), LTE for Machine Type Communications (LTE-M). In this paper, OMNeT++ network simulator is used to implement simulations of real-life scenarios for MIoT and to analyze the simulation results.