Changed on 19/11/2025
- Tuesday, November 25, 2025 - 10:30 am (Santiago de Chile time)
- Hybrid format
- The talk will be in English.
- Speakers:
- Oana Iova is an associate professor in the Department of Telecommunications at INSA Lyon (France) and a researcher at the CITI laboratory, as part of the Agora project-team at Inria
- Juan A. Fraire is a researcher on the Agora project-team at Inria (France) and a visiting professor at CONICET-UNC (Argentina) and at Saarland University (Germany).
Abstract
As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand, ensuring reliable and energy-efficient connectivity for billions of devices has become a central challenge. This talk explores how Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies such as LoRa, LR-FHSS, and LoRaWAN, have transformed terrestrial IoT deployments by offering long-range, low-power, and low-cost communication solutions. We then extend the discussion beyond the ground, showing how recent technological breakthroughs and the rapid rise of low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations are enabling these same technologies to reach space. Through this convergence of terrestrial and satellite communications, global IoT coverage is becoming a reality. The talk will highlight the key technical challenges, recent advancements, and emerging opportunities that are shaping the future of ubiquitous IoT connectivity.
Oana Iova
Oana Iova is an Associate Professor in the Telecommunications Department at INSA Lyon (France), where she has been a faculty member since 2017. She conducts her research within the CITI laboratory as part of the Inria Agora research team. Before joining INSA Lyon, she was a researcher at the University of Trento (Italy). She received her PhD in 2014 from the University of Strasbourg (France). Her research focuses on the design, evaluation, and experimental validation of energy-efficient wireless networking solutions for the Internet of Things, spanning both terrestrial and satellite communication domains. She has a strong experimental component in her work, leveraging testbeds, prototypes, and real-world deployments.
Juan Fraire
Juan A. Fraire is a researcher at Inria (France) and a guest professor at CONICET-UNC (Argentina) and Saarland University (Germany). His core areas of interest are near-Earth and deep-space networking and informatics, with more than 120 publications in international journals and at leading conferences. Juan is co-chair of the Systems and Protocol Aspects for Circumstellar Environments (SPACE) Research Group at the IETF, the co-founder and chair of the Space-Terrestrial Internetworking Workshop (STINT), and participates in diverse joint projects with space agencies (e.g., NASA, ESA, CONAE) and companies in the space sector (e.g., D3TN, Skyloom).
Terrestrial and Satellite Communications for the Internet of Things: Challenges and Advancements