"This book provides comprehensive coverage of LPWAN and loT technologies. It focuses on design requirements and constraings; channel access; spectrum mangaement; collisions and interferences; energy efficency, uses cases and applications; cyber-security, hardware, and software platforms; issues; and future directions. This book may be of interest to a wide spectrum of readers, such as research scholars, academia, and industry professionals. " --IEEE
"This book is a very good introduction and easily accessible way to learn about the upcoming technology of LPWAN. It would help teachers, students, researchers, and industry professionals to quickly understand LPWAN technologies, design networks, and deploy IoT applications." --IEEE
1 . Introduction to low-power wide-area networks 2. Design considerations and network architectures for low-power wide-area networks 3. LoRaWAN protocol: specifications, security, and capabilities 4. Radio channel access challenges in LoRa low-power wide-area networks 5. An introduction to Sigfox radio system 6. NB-IoT: concepts, applications, and deployment challenges 7. Long-term evolution for machines (LTE-M) 8. TV white spaces for low-power wide-area networks 9. Performance of LoRa technology: link-level and cell-level performance 10. Energy optimization in low-power wide area networks by using heuristic techniques 11. Energy harvesting-enabled relaying networks 12. Energy-efficient paging in cellular Internet of things networks 13. Guidelines and criteria for selecting the optimal low-power wide-area network technology 14. Internet of wearable low-power wide-area network devices for health self-monitoring 15. LoRaWAN for smart cities: experimental study in a campus deployment 16. Exploiting LoRa, edge, and fog computing for traffic monitoring in smart cities 17. Security in low-power wide-area networks: state-of-the-art and development toward the 5G 18. Hardware and software platforms for low-power wide-area networks