LoRa Communication Technology for IoT Applications—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Communications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 134
Special Issue Editor
Interests: wireless sensor networks; low power wide area networks; real-time wireless communications; wireless industrial communication; industrial internet of thing; medium access control protocols
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Dear Colleagues,
Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) represent a novel communication paradigm that will replace or complement traditional cellular and short-range wireless technologies in several applications. In the Internet of Things (IoT) field, LPWANs are expected to offer energy-efficient connectivity to a high number of low-power devices, distributed over very large geographical areas. In this context, LoRa is a promising LPWAN technology for inter-connecting billions of low-power IoT nodes. We envision that an increasing number of IoT nodes will be deployed and connected to the Internet via LoRa to enable various innovative applications in several domains, including smart cities, smart monitoring, healthcare, and factory automation. We face great practical challenges and research opportunities in the design, implementation, and evaluation of LoRa technology and its applications and system developments.
This Special Issue is focused on LPWAN technologies, and in particular on LoRa, addressing (but not limited to) the following topics:
- Experimental deployments and solutions for mobile scenarios or situations where devices are deployed on a wide area;
- Machine learning techniques for the configuration and management of LoRa-based communications;
- Novel physical layer design and optimization for LoRa;
- Novel link layer and network layer design and implementation for LoRa;
- Co-existence and co-operation of LoRa with other wireless technologies in ISM bands;
- Security aspects of LoRa.
Dr. Luca Leonardi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- LoRa
- LoRaWAN
- LPWANs
- IoT and IIoT
- wide area coverage
- mobile communications
- network configuration
- network management
- machine learning techniques
- security
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