Fundamentals of IoT Communication Technologies

Rolando Herrero holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University where he specialized in communications and signal processing. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA) and from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) respectively. For over 20 years, he has been involved in several research and development positions within the telecommunication and industrial control markets specializing in media and data processing, packetization and transmission. This work has led to well over 20 patents as well as multiple conference and journal papers in areas ranging from Real Time Communications to IoT applied to UAVs. He is the founder of L7TR, a solutions company specialized in IoT communication technologies. He is also adjunct professor at Northeastern University where he lectures on IoT, signal processing and communications.

Part I. Understanding IoT Communications.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Concepts of IoT Networking.- Part II. IoT Network Layers.- Chapter 3. Physical and Link Layers.- Chapter 4. Network and Transport Layers.- Chapter 5. Application Layer.- Part III. Advanced IoT Networking Topics.- Chapter 6. Resource Identification and Management.- Chapter 7. Routing on Constrained Devices.- Chapter 8. LPWAN Technologies.- Chapter 9. Thread Architecture.