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

Low power wide area network (LPWAN) is a promising solution for long range and low power Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) communication applications. The LPWANs are resource-constrained networks and have critical requirements for long battery life, extended coverage, high scalability, and low device and deployment costs. There are several design and deployment challenges such as media access control, spectrum management, link optimization and adaptability, energy harvesting, duty cycle restrictions, coexistence and interference, interoperability and heterogeneity, security and privacy, and others.LPWAN Technologies for IoT and M2M Applications is intended to provide a one-stop solution for study of LPWAN technologies as it covers a broad range of topics and multidisciplinary aspects of LPWAN and IoT. Primarily, the book focuses on design requirements and constraints, channel access, spectrum management, coexistence and interference issues, energy efficiency, technology candidates, use cases of different applications in smart city, healthcare, and transportation systems, security issues, hardware/software platforms, challenges, and future directions.