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The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart agriculture has transformed farming practices by enabling real time monitoring, data-driven decision making, and automation. However, ensuring reliable connectivity in diverse…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mohamed Shabeer Mohamed Rafi , Mehran Behjati , Ahmad Sahban Rafsanjani

LoRa networks have been deployed all over the world and are a major enabling wireless technology for the Internet of Things (IoT). Massive connectivity applications such as smart metering, agriculture, and supply chain \& logistics are most…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Orestis Georgiou , Constantinos Psomas , Eleni Demarchou , Ioannis Krikidis

Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) is an enabling Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology that supports long-range, low-power, and low-cost connectivity to numerous devices. To avoid the crowd in the limited ISM band (where most LPWANs…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Mahbubur Rahman , Dali Ismail , Venkata P Modekurthy , Abusayeed Saifullah

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are often used in applications such as Smart City, Smart Buildings and Smart Metering. Energy meters are often located in underground spaces that are difficult to reach with wireless technology. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Christof Röhrig , Benz Cramer

The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, where billions of devices and sensors are becoming more and more connected and ubiquitous, is putting a strain on traditional terrestrial networks, that may no longer be able to fulfill…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Dengke Wang , Alessandro Traspadini , Marco Giordani , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Michele Zorzi

Low-altitude uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become integral enablers for the Internet of Things (IoT) by offering enhanced coverage, improved connectivity and access to remote areas. A critical challenge limiting their operational…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Chengzhen Li , Likun Zhang , Chuang Zhang , Jiahui Li , Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Geng Sun

Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies are gaining momentum for internet-of-things (IoT) applications since they promise wide coverage to a massive number of battery-operated devices using grant-free medium access. LoRaWAN, with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-07 Aamir Mahmood , Emiliano Sisinni , Lakshmikanth Guntupalli , Raúl Rondón , Syed Ali Hassan , Mikael Gidlund

Over the last few years we have witnessed an exponential growth in the adoption of LoRaWAN as LPWAN technology for IoT. While LoRaWAN offers many advantages, one of its limitations is the paltry data rate. Most IoT applications don't…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Moez Altayeb , Marco Zennaro , Ermanno Pietrosemoli , Pietro Manzoni

Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies like the Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) standard provide the foundation of applications realizing communication and intelligent interaction between almost any kind of object. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Lukas Simon Laufenberg

Long Range Wide Area Networks (LoRaWAN) is an open medium access control (MAC) layer technology devised for the long range connectivity of massive number of low power network devices. This work gives an overview of the key aspects of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Furqan Hameed Khan , Marius Portmann

Although the idea of using wireless links for covering large areas is not new, the advent of LPWANs has recently started changing the game. Simple, robust, narrowband modulation schemes permit the implementation of low-cost radio devices…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Luca Beltramelli , Aamir Mahmood , Patrik Österberg , Mikael Gidlund , Paolo Ferrari , Emiliano Sisinni

The development of the low power wide area network (LPWAN) for the internet of things (IoTs) is expected to grow widely, allowing remote monitoring of smart devices from a distance of up to several kilometers. This paper studies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Tien Hoa Nguyen , Van Dai Do

The LoRa physical layer is one of the most promising Low Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies for future Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It provides a flexible adaptation of coverage and data rate by allocating different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Licia Amichi , Megumi Kaneko , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda , Nancy El Rachkidy , Alexandre Guitton

Low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) are widely regarded as a cornerstone of the emerging low-altitude economy, yet they face significant challenges, including rapidly varying channels, diverse functional requirements, and dynamic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Wenchao Liu , Xuhui Zhang , Chunjie Wang , Jinke Ren , Weijie Yuan , Changsheng You

NarrowBand-IoT has just joined the LPWAN community. Unlike most of its competitors, NB-IoT did not emerge from a blank slate. Indeed, it is closely linked to LTE, from which it inherits many of the features that undoubtedly determine its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Borja Martinez , Ferran Adelantado , Andrea Bartoli , Xavier Vilajosana

In this paper, we investigate the resource allocation for uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enabled low-power wide-area (LPWA) networks to support the massive connectivity of users/nodes. Here, LPWA nodes communicate with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Kaihan Li , Fatma Benkhelifa , Julie McCann

We present a stochastic geometry-based model to investigate alternative medium access choices for LoRaWAN---a widely adopted low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN) technology for the Internet-of-things (IoT). LoRaWAN adoption is driven by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Luca Beltramelli , Aamir Mahmood , Patrik Österberg , Mikael Gidlund

We present Wi-Lo, which allows to convert an ordinary 802.11 (WiFi) access point into an internet of things (IoT) gateway supporting the low-power wide area network (LPWAN) technology LoRa in the downlink. Our Wi-Lo system only requires a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Piotr Gawlowicz , Anatolij Zubow , Falko Dressler

In this paper we advocate the use of device-to-device (D2D) communications in a LoRaWAN Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN). After overviewing the critical features of the LoRaWAN technology, we discuss the pros and cons of enabling the D2D…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Konstantin Mikhaylov , Juha Petäjäjärvi , Jussi Haapola , Ari Pouttu

Wireless power transfer (WPT) is an emerging paradigm that will enable using wireless to its full potential in future networks, not only to convey information but also to deliver energy. Such networks will enable trillions of future…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Bruno Clerckx , Kaibin Huang , Lav R. Varshney , Sennur Ulukus , Mohamed-Slim Alouini