Ntshabele, KIsong, BAbu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI2021-07-132021-07-132021-05Ntshabele, K., Isong, B. & Abu-Mahfouz, A.M. 2021. CR-LPWAN: Issues, solutions and research directions. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12056 .978-1-6654-0248-4978-1-6654-3568-0DOI: 10.1109/AIIoT52608.2021.9454207http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12056Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is a network technology that emanated from the swift advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) market. It is characterized by low cost, long-range communications, low power consumptions, and better area coverage. However, LPWAN is faced with several challenges such as scalability, security, coexistence, management, and adoption. Recently, Cognitive Radio-LPWAN (CR-LPWAN) has been introduced to address some of these challenges to preserve the benefits of LPWAN. Therefore, this paper surveys and analyses recent works on CR-LPWAN to identify the existing challenges, possible solutions and open issues as research directions. This paper specifically focused on relevant works that addressed issues in standardization, design, development, and architecture and identified research directions for improving CR-LPWAN. About twenty (20) relevant articles were explored, and the findings revealed the existence of several issues and proposed solutions in the CR-LPWAN realm. The findings also revealed CR-LPWAN as a promising wireless communication technology and with more research attention, CR-LPWAN can be improved significantly.AbstractenLow Power Wide Area NetworkLPWANCR-LPWANEnergy efficiencyInternet of ThingsIoTConference PresentationNtshabele, K., Isong, B., & Abu-Mahfouz, A. M. (2021). CR-LPWAN: Issues, solutions and research directions. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12056Ntshabele, K, B Isong, and Adnan MI Abu-Mahfouz. "CR-LPWAN: Issues, solutions and research directions." <i>IEEE World AI IoT Congress, Seattle, United States, 10-13 May 2021</i> (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12056Ntshabele K, Isong B, Abu-Mahfouz AM, CR-LPWAN: Issues, solutions and research directions; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12056 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Ntshabele, K AU - Isong, B AU - Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI AB - Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is a network technology that emanated from the swift advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT) market. It is characterized by low cost, long-range communications, low power consumptions, and better area coverage. However, LPWAN is faced with several challenges such as scalability, security, coexistence, management, and adoption. Recently, Cognitive Radio-LPWAN (CR-LPWAN) has been introduced to address some of these challenges to preserve the benefits of LPWAN. Therefore, this paper surveys and analyses recent works on CR-LPWAN to identify the existing challenges, possible solutions and open issues as research directions. This paper specifically focused on relevant works that addressed issues in standardization, design, development, and architecture and identified research directions for improving CR-LPWAN. About twenty (20) relevant articles were explored, and the findings revealed the existence of several issues and proposed solutions in the CR-LPWAN realm. The findings also revealed CR-LPWAN as a promising wireless communication technology and with more research attention, CR-LPWAN can be improved significantly. DA - 2021-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR J1 - IEEE World AI IoT Congress, Seattle, United States, 10-13 May 2021 KW - Low Power Wide Area Network KW - LPWAN KW - CR-LPWAN KW - Energy efficiency KW - Internet of Things KW - IoT LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2021 SM - 978-1-6654-0248-4 SM - 978-1-6654-3568-0 T1 - CR-LPWAN: Issues, solutions and research directions TI - CR-LPWAN: Issues, solutions and research directions UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/12056 ER -24803