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Report Title: Wi-Fi & LoRaWAN ® deployment synergies Issue Date: September 2019 Version: 1.0. final version 34 LoRa Alliance & Wireless Broadband Alliance Confidential & Proprietary Copyright © 2019 • Densification: easy cost-efficient densification (emergence of small form factor low cost gateways). • Multi factor design: use of multiple optimization factors (channel plan, adaptive data rate, macro diversity, densification, and time diversity), to optimize spectrum usage, coverage, level of service (SLA) and device battery consumption. • Domestic roaming: LoRaWAN ® networks deployed in the same country may roam with each other. Network diversity and complementarity Let us take a look at existing networks topologies: • A) Campus / Venue / Airport networks (mostly private). It is the area of Wi-Fi and LoRaWAN ® private petworks. It provides both indoor coverage and increased traffic capacity (small cells). • B) City networks: Smart City private networks are flourishing, massively expanding to LoRaWAN ® . Concurrently, operators have developed attractive network as a service offering based on rivate-Public business models. Cities benefit from 'free' towers on public premises. Several agreements are being set up with operators to use these existing assets. These networks provide both outdoor and indoor coverage on a limited footprint (a few square kilometers), while offering hard to find sites in urban areas. • C) Nationwide / Regional networks: mostly built on towers, they offer long range outdoor coverage. These networks are the space of LoRaWAN ® operators, MNOs or tower companies. • D) Consumer networks (home-hubs, set-top boxes), based on low height sites bringing mostly indoor coverage. Wi-Fi is the predominant IoT technology in homes as concurrently providing backhauling to any other IoT technology. LoRaWAN ® is a recent fast rising IoT Connectivity technology in that space. Most of MSOs roll-out this category of Networks. Hybrid networks leveraging different topologies are the solution to provide indoor and outdoor services on a national / international scale. Objenious by Bouygues Telecom proposes a hybrid network offering (private-public), allowing industrial companies to open their LoRaWAN ® private use-cases nationwide and even international wide based on roaming agreements setup by Objenious with other LoRaWAN ® operators. Wi-Fi has massively expanded on A), B) D) types of networks where LoRaWAN ® is mainly present in A) B) C) and recently emerging on D). It becomes clear that Wi-Fi can expand on LoRAWAN ® addressable use cases based on A) B) D) topologies. LoRaWAN ® (C) networks can be scaled gracefully by adding more gateways. Optimizing Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) and power consumption algorithms comprise a two-pronged force that yields a ~10X reduction in both power consumption and operator TCO while increasing the capacity of the network massively [26]. Wi-Fi Networks do not only trigger the development of strategic IoT use cases but are a strong lever to massively: