802.11ah - LPWA interworking

There are several networking technologies that are being designed for low power operation of IoT devices. We consider a deployment scenario where networks based on IEEE802.11ah and LoRaWAN type of technologies are deployed in a geographical area (such as in a city). In some parts of this area, only one of these networks is available while in some other parts both of these networks are deployed. A single mode IoT device could support one of these radio access technologies while a multimode device to support both these RATs in this scenario. Each such access technology also support different classes of operation for end devices and results in different types of traffic scenarios that can be supported by the IoT devices. We propose a framework for 802.11ah and LoRaWAN interworking in this paper. We consider issues such as selection of suitable access technology and class for each end device, resource management and support for limited mobility in our proposed solution framework here. This framework also allows network and IoT providers to implement various policies while taking such decisions.