LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M Applications

Dr. Bharat S. Chaudhari is working as a Professor (HAG) in Electrical/Electronics and Communication Engineering at MIT World Peace University, Pune, India. He graduated in Industrial Electronics Engineering from Amravati University in 1989 and received M. E. Telecom. E. and PhD (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India in 1993 and 2000, respectively. He has previously held positions like Principal, Dean, and Professor at various Institutes in Pune. He is a recipient of the 2020 IETE N V Gadadhar Memorial Award, the MAEER Pune’s Ideal Teacher Award 2015, and the Young Scientist Research Grant from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, in 2003. He was appointed as a Visiting Scientist (Simons Associate/Regular Associate) to Wireless Network Research Group, ICTP, Trieste, Italy from January 2007 to December 2020. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IETE, Fellow of IE (I), and a Founder Chairman of the IEEE Pune Section (2010 – 2011). He also chaired the IEEE Communications Society, Pune Chapter. He serves as a Program Evaluator of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, United States, for accreditation of computer, communications, and similar engineering programs. His current research interest includes LPWANs, AIoT, TinyML, and Si-Photonics. Dr. Marco Zennaro is a Research Scientist at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, where he coordinates the Science, Technology, and Innovation Unit. He received his PhD from KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and his MSc in Electronic Engineering from the University of Trieste. He is a visiting Professor at KIC-Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan, and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. His research interest is in ICT4D, the use of ICT for Development, and in particular, he investigates the use of IoT in Developing Countries. He is TinyML4D Chair and Academic Network Co-Chair in the framework of the TinyML4D initiative. He has given lectures on wireless technologies in more than 30 different countries. More info here: https://www.ictp.it/member/marco-zennaro#biography

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