WoLoLo 2024

The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Wireless outdoor, Long-Range and Low-Power Networks

Low-power and long-range communication networks (including LoRa, MIoTy, NB-IoT for sensor networks and the Internet of Things) have recently attracted increasing research interest and efforts. Despite the rapid development, there are still many challenges and unsolved problems in this area with respect to large-scale real-world applications. Especially in applications that cover large areas, are located in remote and hard-to-reach places, or in hazardous areas, reliable communication without existing infrastructure is the immense advantage of Low-power and long-range technologies. At the same time, this is also the challenge, because the sensors and networks must be self-sufficient, reliable and available over a long period of time. In addition to the various requirements for wireless communication, the low-power aspects in particular therefore also play a major role, because without sufficient energy efficiency, the practical use of such networks is not expedient.

Based on hardware architectures and novel platforms, large-scale networks can be established using robust and efficient transmission technologies such as LoRa, MIoTy or NB-IoT. For this, protocols and network management are indispensable, which always consider the aspects of reliability, transmission range and energy efficiency. These methods also have in common that greater robustness and longer transmission distances are achieved at the expense of bandwidth. In this context, on-sensor data processing for bandwidth reduction is an important key to future low-power and long-range network architectures, while overlying network management and integration into existing IoT structures must also be considered.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry to address the challenges and opportunities in the design, development, implementation and deployment of wireless low power and long range sensors and networks on every layer.

Organizing committee Ulf Kulau, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany Andreas Reinhardt, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany Kai Li, CISTER Research Centre, Portugal

Technical program committee Carlo Alberto Boano, TU Graz, Austria Nancy El Rachkidy, Polytech’Clermont, France Danny Hughes, KU Leuven, Belgium Olaf Landsiedel, University of Kiel, Germany Jorge Navarro-Ortiz, University of Granada, Spain Francesco Restuccia, Northeastern University, USA Philipp Sommer, ABB Switzerland Daniel Szafranski, TU Clausthal, Germany Ni Wei, CSIRO Australia Li Wentai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lars Wolf, TU Braunschweig, Germany Shen Yiran, Shandong University, China Dimitrios Zormpas, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Web chair Lucas Bublitz, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany

Call for papers

Low-power wide area networks for Internet of Things (e.g., LoRa, NB-IoT) have attracted increasing research interest and efforts recently. Despite their rapid proliferation, there are many challenges and unsolved problems on the path towards reliable large-scale real-world applications. This workshop aims to bring researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry together to explore the challenges and opportunities in the design, development, implementation, and deployment of low-power networks for Internet of Things in challenging wide area environments.

The 2nd International Workshop on Wireless outdoor, Long-Range and Low-Power Networks (WoLoLo), in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2024, is intended to be a forum to share the experiences about latest research regarding low-power and long range wireless networks ranging from novel architectures, power-management and efficient on-sensor processing to protocols and systems for long-range communication including network management. Experiences, challenges, and also failures of real world deployments are also highly welcome to be discussed in this workshop. The main topics of the workshop shall fall into at least one of the following categories:

Protocol design for Low-power long-range networks Low-power long-range network system implementation Software tools and codes for low-power long-range network design and implementation On-Sensor processing for data and bandwidth reduction Power-management techniques for long-term operation of long-range networks Techniques to improve the performance of low-power long-range networks Practical experiences with LoRa(WAN), NB-IOT, etc system designs Datasets gathered from real-world applications for low power networks Integration of low-power long-range networks into the Internet of Things

Important dates Papers submission: March 1, 2024 Notification: March 31, 2024 Camera-ready version due: Will be announced soon! Workshop date: Will be announced soon!

Submissions

Submitted papers must adhere to the WoWMoM workshops submission formatting requirements (i.e., two-column IEEE conference style) and should not exceed 6 pages, including figures, tables, and references. Submissions must be made via edas.

Contact wololo24-chairs@edas.info

Sponsors

Co-located with the 25th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society