Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN): Technologies, Protocols and Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 524
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sensor signal processing; industrial communications; wireless and sensor networks; ubiquitous and mobile computing
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Interests: real-time industrial networks; low power wide area networks; wireless sensor and actuator networks; industrial internet of things; automotive communications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The importance of distributed systems is increasing. The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is becoming pervasive and has affected not only the consumer market and the smart city scenarios, but the industrial domain as well (e.g., Industry 4.0). However, applications where end nodes are deployed in a wide area or in mobile systems remain extremely challenging. In such cases, the use of wireless communication solutions is often mandatory because of intrinsic requirements (mobile devices cannot use wires) or high cost for covering large (geographical) areas.
Although many of the technologies under the 5G umbrella promise a solution to these requests, they are not yet deployed or diffused. Meanwhile, low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies have been introduced, including both specialized wireless protocols and solutions derived from mobile communications. They generally leverage on “hub-and-spoke” architecture and are complemented by wired backend for end users to access data (and where most of the complexity is moved). This Special Issue is focused on LPWAN technologies, addressing (but not limited to) protocol improvements, evaluation of experimental deployments and solutions for mobile scenarios or situations where devices are deployed on a wide area.
Dr. Emiliano Sisinni
Dr. Luca Leonardi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- LPWANs
- IoT and IIoT
- wide area coverage
- mobile communications
- standardization
- security
- network management
