TASK
5G and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) are both gaining momentum and their deployment is rapidly progressing worldwide. In this task, you are given large-scale measurement campaigns of 5G, LTE and NB-IoT data (collected in Rome, Italy) in order to empirically analyze the coverage performance of 5G, NB-IoT and LTE on operational networks under different settings.
The measurement campaign was designed to explore city-wide coverage and deployment aspects under heterogeneous scenarios. It covered a period of six and a half weeks (during December ‘20 and January ‘21). The number of campaigns across the three technologies are different and described below:
LTE and 5G:
- Indoor (106 sub-campaigns), for houses and multi-floor buildings
- Outdoor Walking (47 sub-campaigns), for outdoor while walking
- Outdoor Driving (37 sub-campaigns), for outdoor while on public transport
NB-IoT:
- Indoor (21 sub-campaigns), for houses and multi-floor buildings
- Outdoor Walking (25 sub-campaigns), for outdoor while walking
- Outdoor Driving (34 sub-campaigns), for outdoor while on public transport
A subset of the measurements is replicated over time (i.e., morning vs. afternoon vs. evening, and week vs. weekend), to account for temporal effects.
For more details on the data collection and dataset fields of the data, please see the papers provided. Here you can also find some analysis of the datasets.
Your task with this assignment is to dig deeper and provide coverage performance comparison for different scenarios in time and space. You can select any of the below scenarios (or their combination) for your analysis:
- Given a selected number of different campaigns, compare the coverage performance for different operators and different technologies (5G, NB-IoT and LTE).
- Given a selected number of different campaigns, compare the deployment strategies for different operators and different technologies (5G, NB-IoT and LTE).
- Given two or more campaigns at the same location (e.g., repetitions of indoor campaigns), show how the coverage changes over time. Is this change significant? (Do this for a given operator and for a given radio technology)
Presentation
- Make a visual classroom representation, in the spirit of a short lecture. Select a tool such as Powerpoint or Google Slides which allows you to download and hand in complete assignments. Tools to present results more interactively (Matlab, Jupyter Notebook) are great in many contexts but not for delivery as homework. Deliver a PDF version of your presentation as well.
- The presentation must:
- explain the goals of your analysis
- explain which scenarios you have chosen to analyze, and how you approached the analyses
- present your results visually using plots (there are many examples in the intro lecture)
- explain the results
- explain how the plots assist you in explaining these results
- Present in the classroom.
- The presentation that you deliver is not a report. It should be very brief (using bullets) for each requested explanation. The oral presentation in the classroom should be more detailed.
- It is important to use statistical tools and enough samples to make your case, as real measurements always have measurement noise.
Here is the evaluation form we will be using: 
Deadline: The presentation must be submitted on November 7, 2022.