“…Currently, in the era of the IoT [1], communication technologies have significantly expanded to reach a variety of industries. Consequently, providing low-power and long-distance communication networks has become an essential component of many applications within smart cities, such as waste management [2], supply chain [3], Industrial Internet of Things [4], smart metering [5], and traffic control. Low Power Wide Area Networking (LPWAN) is an effective way for such applications to overcome these cost, energy, and complexity challenges, especially when such applications require covering large geographic areas.…”