Technical Summary
This document is an overview of the set of Low-Power Wide-Area Network
technologies being considered in the IETF and of the gaps that exist between
the needs of those technologies and the goal of running IP in LPWANs. The four
baseline LPWAN technologies are described at a level, which allows to identify
the necessary adaptations for each of them. The document provides overviews of
the characteristics of the PHY and MAC layers of the various technologies, the
deployment topologies, addressing and security features. It is not a critical
review of the technologies and its goal is not to provide a comparison between
them. Instead, it's purpose is to enable the understanding of the features of
the "IP over LPWAN" design space. The document also provides a guide on the
terminologies used across the various baseline technologies.
Working Group Summary
The document is the combined effort of representatives of the four baseline
LPWAN technologies, each authoring the part corresponding to their technology.
Significant parts of the gap analysis have been contributed by other WG
participants. With 12 contributing authors, the document is the fruit of a
constructive work of many different organizations and individuals.
Document Quality
The document provides an informational overview of technologies, which were
defined outside the IETF. Each of the baseline technology providers
(alliances, standardization bodies, companies) have designated corresponding
authors for the relative sections. The gap analysis and the other common
sections were widely reviewed and discussed by the many authors of the
document (12) and the WG as whole. The document is of excellent quality. The
LPWAN technologies evolve rapidly, and the document provides a view that is
frozen at the time of the writing.
Personnel
The document shepherd is Alexander Pelov. The responsible Area Director is Suresh Krishnan.