Recent Trends and Advances in Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs)
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2025 | Viewed by 63
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Interests: low-power wireless technologies; IoT; WSNs; BLE; LPWAN; 6LoWPAN; 6Lo; IP-based protocols for constrained-node networks
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Interests: energy modeling; Internet of Things; industrial Internet of Things; low energy wireless networks and protocols; low-power wide-area networks; network architectures; performance evaluation; smart cities
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
About one decade ago, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) emerged as an attractive type of wireless technologies with high potential to enable many Internet of Things (IoT) environments and applications. A variety of LPWAN technologies, such as LoRa/LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, or LTE-M, among others, have been the focus of a significant amount of research, standardization, and deployment efforts. IP-based Internet connectivity can also now be efficiently provided by means of the static context header compression and fragmentation (SCHC) framework standardized by the IETF. LPWAN technologies have also recently been extended for enhanced operation in satellite-based scenarios, contributing also to the evolution of mobile networks towards 6G.
This Special Issue aims to collect original research and review articles on recent advances, studies, applications, and new challenges in the field of LPWANs.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- LoRa, LoRaWAN, and LR-FHSS.
- Sigfox.
- Cellular LPWANs (NB-IoT, LTE-M, etc.).
- The role of LPWANs towards 6G.
- Use of SCHC (Internet connectivity, end-to-end improvement, etc.).
- LPWANs for satellite-based communication.
- Applications of LPWANs (smart cities, smart industry, smart agriculture, smart monitoring, smart home, smart health, etc.).
Prof. Dr. Carles Gomez
Dr. Vidal Ferré Rafael
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- LoRa/LoRaWAN
- LPWANs
- wireless technologies
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