Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN): Latest Advances and Prospects (Volume II)
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 980
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer networks security; IT security; Internet of Things; IT services; computer communications (Networks); LPWAN
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Interests: computer communications (networks); IoT protocols; LPWAN architecture; header compression
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: computer networks; security; IoT protocols; LPWAN; SDN
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The set of technologies known as low power wide area networks (LPWAN) have attracted the interest of the research community and industry since the moment of their conception. They provide different innovative applications and various interesting challenges. Their highly constrained bandwidths, half-duplex communications, licensed and unlicensed bands, different bandwidth capacities and restricted access to the medium make these technologies an appealing area of research and development.
Different uses, ranging from their application in smart cities, smart buildings, smart farming, etc., can benefit from these technologies, where thousands of devices transmit a few bytes of information. Consequently, the IoT landscape now incorporates nodes with long-range radio modules to radio communication technologies. SigFox, LoRa and 802.15.4g are but a few of the LPWAN technologies currently available.
Current research challenges are the optimization, management and provision of novel features in these technologies. There are also standardization efforts, such as that of the IETF, which aims to provide IPv6 support to these technologies, opening the door for new and exciting new proposals and advances.
This Special Issue aims to bring together researchers, practitioners and standardization specialists from academia and industry in the field of LPWAN in order to discuss and explore the latest advances and prospects. This Special Issue’s goals are to present new solutions to existing challenges and to demonstrate the continuous efforts being made to improve these technologies and their coexistence with other networking solutions, such as 5G.
Dr. Dan García Carrillo
Prof. Dr. Laurent Toutain
Dr. Rafael Marín López
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- LPWAN
- IoT
- standardization
- security
- network convergence
- optimization
- network management
