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REPORT
2021
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TECHNICAL UPDATES
Throughout 2021, the Technical Committee (TC) actively developed and advanced the LoRaWAN
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specifications.
Our work supported the LoRa Alliance
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goal of evolving and enhancing the standard to simplify LoRaWAN deployments
and enable massive scaling.
Recognition as an international standard is critical to massive scaling, and thanks to our successful collaboration with the IoT group
of ITU, ITU-T SG20, we were able to transpose the LoRaWAN Link Layer Specification v1.0.4 (TS1-1.0.4) into an ITU-T standard
in November. Now available on the ITU website, Recommendation Y.4480 describes our low-power protocol for wide-area wireless
networks, which is optimized for battery-powered end-devices that may either be mobile or mounted at a fixed location; this Recom-
mendation is technically equivalent to (and compatible with) the LoRaWAN Link Layer Specification [TS001-1.0.4].
Other notable achievements of the TC in 2021 include the publication of:
• A new version of our Regional Parameters document
(RP2-1.0.3), which defines a regional plan called AS92304,
which supports Israel.
• Technical Recommendation TR007, Developing
LoRaWAN Devices, which provides guidance to end-
device and LoRaWAN protocol stack developers to help
ensure they produce well-behaved and interoperable
products.
• Two Technical Recommendations related to roaming:
TR008, European Roaming Guidelines, which provides
guidelines for optimizing roaming procedures for European
network operators to ensure highly efficient passive
roaming across LoRaWAN networks; and TR009,
Roaming Configuration Guidelines, which provides
a description of the required configuration parameters
to be used on the network servers and join servers to
enable stateless passive roaming.
• A third technical recommendation, TR010, Roaming Hub,
was approved for publication and will be made available
in early 2022. This document describes how LoRaWAN
roaming hubs operate.
• A new NetID allocation policy and procedure that has
been updated to allow non-LoRa Alliance members to
license NetIDs from the LoRa Alliance to fully leverage
LoRaWAN roaming.
