Recent Advances in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) and Long Range (LoRa) Network
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 4067
Special Issue Editors
Interests: low-power wide area networks (LPWAN); synchronization and scheduling of transmissions in resource-constrained environments; ML-oriented resource allocation in IoT networks; industrial IoT
Interests: performance evaluation of networking protocols; autoconfiguration and optimization of wireless networks; LP WAN; LoRa; radio planning; BLE; indoor positioning
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Dear Colleagues,
Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) emerged in recent years to fill a gap in the wireless Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in terms of long-range and low-power communication at the expense of high transmission airtimes, which makes them a core component of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. With LoRaWAN having become a key player in the machine-type communication domain, other promising communication standards are starting to raise the attention of both industry and academia. While leveraging a wide application scope in the Industrial IoT domain (IIoT), ranging from agriculture to manufacturing or logistics, most LPWAN standards still lack the required robustness and reliability under constrained scenarios such as massive or battery-operated deployments. Recent advances in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) domains are expected to bring numerous benefits in terms of efficient network scheduling and resource allocation. However, the constrained nature of battery-operated devices with limited memory and computational resources still poses a significant challenge for real-world implementations.
This Special Issue focuses on cutting-edge advances in LPWAN and in particular, Long Range (LoRa) networks. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Cutting-edge applications of LPWAN in the IIoT domain, including manufacturing, logistics, supply chain management, health care, smart cities, or agricultural approaches.
- LPWAN real-world deployments in the 5G/beyond 5G (B5G) Era focusing on mMTC (massive Machine-Type Communications).
- Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) approaches to improve LPWAN performance, including Network Digital Twin (NDT) and service orchestration.
- Testbed proposals including novel network topologies and satellite communications.
- Open hardware/software MCU-oriented design and implementation for power-aware LPWAN/LoRa connectivity.
- Novel synchronization approaches, network scalability and efficiency enchancements.
- Performance evaluation tools and benchmarking.
- Novel MAC-layer improvements to LPWAN standards including LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, or Mioty.
Dr. Celia Garrido-Hidalgo
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Grochla
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- LPWAN
- LoRa
- LoRaWAN
- IIoT
- AIoT
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