Long-range communications in unlicensed bands: The rising stars in the IoT and smart city scenarios

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 60-67

  Centenaro, Marco ^a   Vangelista, Lorenzo ^a,b   Zanella, Andrea ^a   Zorzi, Michele ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Patavina Technologies Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BANDS; INTERNET OF THINGS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; STARS;

BASIC BUILDING BLOCK; CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES; GIGAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; LONG-RANGE COMMUNICATIONS; MULTI-HOP MESH NETWORKS; SHORT-RANGE COMMUNICATION; TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES; WIRELESS CONNECTIVITIES;

MESH NETWORKING;

EID: 85000692361     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2016.7721743     Document Type: Article

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