5. Conclusion
In this paper, we have presented a detailed application-specific performance analysis of NB-IoT for healthcare monitoring system with both SND and MND. From the conducted analysis, it can be seen that with MND design significant gain in throughput and number of patients per cell is observed at the cost of increased delay. This is due to the reduction in overhead of control information transmission. From the results, it is also concluded that to provide a suitable solution for the different use case scenarios, one has to jointly optimize the required throughput, delay and device density. As future work, based on the results of this work, we will be able to evaluate different strategies for resource management in NB-IoT systems for specific use case scenarios.