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The recent advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) enables the possibility of data collection from diverse environments using IoT devices. However, despite the rapid advancement of low-power communication technologies, the deployment of…

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

LoRaWAN is a popular low power wide area network technology widely used in many scenarios, such as environmental monitoring and smart cities. Different applications demand various quality of service (QoS), and their service within a single…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Dmitry Bankov , Evgeny Khorov , Andrey Lyakhov

Long range radio communication is preferred in many IoT deployments as it avoids the complexity of multi-hop wireless networks. LoRa is a popular, energy-efficient wireless modulation but its networking substrate LoRaWAN introduces severe…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 José Álamos , Peter Kietzmann , Thomas Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

LoRa is the proprietary physical layer (PHY) of LoRaWAN, which is a popular Internet-of-Things (IoT) protocol enabling low-power devices to communicate over long ranges. A number of reverse engineering attempts have been published in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 Joachim Tapparel , Orion Afisiadis , Paul Mayoraz , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming , Andreas Burg

LoRaWAN is a leading standard and technology for low-power, long-range Internet-of-Things (IoT) communications. However, its single-hop architecture results in limited effective range and excessive power consumption for end devices,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ram Ramanathan , Dmitrii Dugaev , Liang Tan , Warren Ramanathan

LoRa technology enables long-range communication with low-power consumption for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices in the urban and suburban environment. However, due to terrestrial structures in urban and suburban environments, the link…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-01 Vageesh Anand Dambal , Sameer Mohadikar , Abhaykumar Kumbhar , Ismail Guvenc

In this paper we present a new modulation, called DLoRa, similar in principle to the conventional LoRa modulation and compatible with it in terms of bandwidth and numerology. DLoRa departs from the conventional LoRa modulation as it is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Lorenzo Vangelista , Alessandro Cattapan

LoRa wireless networks are considered as a key enabling technology for next generation internet of things (IoT) systems. New IoT deployments (e.g., smart city scenarios) can have thousands of devices per square kilometer leading to huge…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Rami Hamdi , Emna Baccour , Aiman Erbad , Marwa Qaraqe , Mounir Hamdi

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs) has emerged as a key paradigm to provide connectivity for sensors and actuators via satellite gateways in remote areas where terrestrial infrastructure is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Alessandro Traspadini , Michele Zorzi , Marco Giordani

This work studies the throughput scaling laws of ad hoc wireless networks in the limit of a large number of nodes. A random connections model is assumed in which the channel connections between the nodes are drawn independently from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Shengshan Cui , Alexander M. Haimovich , Oren Somekh , H. Vincent Poor , Shlomo Shamai

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet-of-Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Mathieu Xhonneux , Orion Afisiadis , David Bol , Jérôme Louveaux

Low power long-range networks like LoRa have become increasingly mainstream for Internet of Things deployments. Given the versatility of applications that these protocols enable, they support many data rates and bandwidths. Yet, for a given…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Zerina Kapetanovic , Deepak Vasisht , Tusher Chakraborty , Joshua R. Smith , Ranveer Chandra

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) are wireless connectivity solutions for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, including industrial automation. Among the several LPWAN technologies, LoRaWAN has been extensively addressed by the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Jean Michel de Souza Sant'Ana , Arliones Hoeller , Richard Demo Souza , Samuel Montejo-Sánchez , Hirley Alves , Mario de Noronha Neto

LoRaWAN is a compelling low-cost solution for large-scale indoor Internet of Things (IoT) data backhaul, owing to its strong penetration capability and low power consumption. However, its default pure ALOHA access mechanism leads to severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Junxiao Liu , Xinyu Fan , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

In this paper, we explore perpetual, scalable, Low-powered Wide-area networks (LPWA). Specifically we focus on the uplink transmissions of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based LPWA networks consisting of multiple self-powered nodes…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Fatma Benkhelifa , Julie A. McCann

Grant Free Random Access (GFRA) is a popular protocol in the Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce the control signaling. GFRA is a framed protocol where each frame is split into two parts: device identification; and data transmission part…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Alix Jeannerot , Malcolm Egan , Jean-Marie Gorce

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

LoRa (Long-Range) is an LPWAN (low-power wide-area network) protocol that is part of the IoT family that focusses on long-range communication of up to 14km, albeit with delay-inherent transmissions. Three IoT-based time synchronisation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Timothy Jones , Khondokar Fida Hasan

The deployment of mobile LoRa gateways using low-cost single-channel hardware presents a significant challenge in maintaining reliable communication due to the lack of dynamic configuration support. In traditional LoRaWAN networks, Adaptive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 W. A. Sasindu Wijesuriya