Low Power Wide Area Networks: An Overview

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 855-873

  Raza, Usman ^a   Kulkarni, Parag ^a   Sooriyabandara, Mahesh ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

cellular; Internet of Things; IoT; low power wide area; LPWA; LPWAN; machine to machine communication

Indexed keywords

INTERNET OF THINGS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATION; SMART CITY; STANDARDIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR; LOW POWER; LPWA; LPWAN; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 85020458974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2652320     Document Type: Article

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