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Overview of Cellular LPWAN Technologies for IoT Deployment: Sigfox, LoRaWAN, and NB-IoT
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LPWAN are actually the most popular low cost, long battery lifetime, and long range communication technology for IoT applications. This paper presents a comprehensive and comparative study on three actually leading LPWAN technologies called Sigfox, LoRaWAN, and NB-IoT. We show that Sigfox and LoRaWAN excel on network capacity, devices lifetime, and cost. Whereas, NB-IoT excels on quality of service and latency. In addition, we consider application scenarios and explain which technology fits best to guide future researchers and industrials.
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Metadata
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- Mekki, K., Bajic, E., Chaxel, F., & Meyer, F.
- Venue
- 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2018-03
- Pages
- 197-202
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- W2898008923
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- References
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- en
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