LPWAN Overview

[[Editor comments/queries are in double square brackets like this.]] This document provides background material and an overview of the technologies being considered in the IETF's Low Power Wide-Area Networking (LPWAN) working group. We also provide a gap analysis between the needs of these technologies and currently available IETF specifications. This document is largely the work of the people listed in . Discussion of this document should take place on the lpwan@ietf.org list. [[Editor's note: the eventual fate of this draft is a topic for the WG to consider - it might end up as a useful RFC, or it might be best maintained as a draft only until its utility has dissapated. FWIW, the editor doesn't mind what outcome the WG choose.]]

[[Not sure if 2119 terms will be needed. Leave it here for now.]] The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. [[Extract common terms here. Maybe define and relate technology specific terms, e.g. lora g/w similar to sigfox bs etc. There is text for this in the current "gaps" draft.]]

[[Editors note: We may want a section like this that describes some cross-cutting issues, e.g. duty-cycles, some of the ISM band restrictions. This isn't intended to be a problem statement nor a set of requirements but just to describe some issues that affect more than one of the LPWAN technologies. Such a section might be better before or after , will see when text's added there. There is some text for this in the current "gaps" draft.]]

This section provides an overview of the set of LPWAN technologies that are being considered in the LPWAN working group. The text for each was mainly contributed by the proponents of each technology. Note that this text is not intended to be normative in any sesne, but simply to help the reader in finding the relevant layer 2 specifications and in understanding how those integrate with IETF-defined technologies. Similarly, there is no attempt here to set out the pros and cons of the relevant technologies. [[Editor: I assume that's the right target here. Please comment if you disagree.]] [[Editor's note: the goal here is 2-3 pages per technology. If there's much more needed then we could add appendices I guess depending on what text the WG find useful to include.]]

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As stated above this document is mainly a collection of content developed by the full set of contributors listed below. The main input documents and their authors were: Text for was provided by Antti Ratilainen in . Text for was provided by Juan Carlos Zuniga and Benoit Ponsard in . Text for was provided by Ana Minabiru, Carles Gomez, Laurent Toutain, Josep Paradells and Jon Crowcroft in . Additional text from that draft is also used elsewhere above. The full list of contributors are:

Thanks to all those listed in for the excellent text. Errors in the handling of that are solely the editor's fault. Thanks to [your name here] for comments. Stephen Farrell's work on this memo was supported by the Science Foundation Ireleand funded CONNECT centre .