# Firmware Updates over the Air via LoRa: Unicast and Broadcast Combination for Boosting Update Speed
## Appendix A Format of the Frames of the Unicast Implementation
### Other Control Frames Sent by the Gateway
(2021) [PERSON] [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] Firmware Update Using Multiple Gateways in LoRaWAN Networks. _Sensors_**2021**, _21_, 6488. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
* [PERSON] et al. (2019) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] [PERSON] A Thorough Study of LoRaWAN Performance under Different Parameter Settings. _IEEE Internet Things J._**2019**, \(7\), 116-127. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2018) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] [PERSON] A LoRaWAN module for ns-3: Implementation and evaluation. In Proceedings of the Workshop ns-3, Surathkal, India, 13-14 June 2018; pp. 61-68. [CrossRef]
* The Things Network. Device Classes. Available online: [[https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/classes/](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/classes/)]([https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/classes/](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/classes/)) (accessed on 3 January 2024). * [PERSON] (2019) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] A survey on lora networking: Research problems, current solutions, and open issues. _IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutor._**2019**, _22_, 371-388. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2020) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] Performance evaluation of propagation models for LoRaWAN in an urban environment. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Electrical, Communication, and Computer Engineering (ICECCE), Istanbul, Turkey, 12-13 June 2020; IEEE: Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2020; pp. 1-6. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] and [PERSON] (2022) [PERSON]; [PERSON]. Wireless link Analysis of LoRa in vegetation and Semi urban scenarios. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interdisciplinary Cyber Physical Systems (ICPS), Chennai, India, 9-10 May 2022; IEEE: Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2022. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2018) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] [PERSON]; [PERSON] Joint Mobility Management and Multicast Rate Adaptation in Software-Defined Enterprise WLANs. _IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manag._**2018**, _15_, 625-637. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2022) [PERSON]; [PERSON] [PERSON]; [PERSON] Applications of ML/DL in the management of smart cities and societies based on new trends in information technologies: A systematic literature review. _Sustain. Cities Soc._**2022**, _85_, 104089. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2020) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] IoT Device Firmware Update over LoRa: The Blockchain Solution. In Proceedings of the 2020 16 th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), Marina del Rey, CA, USA, 25-27 May 2020; pp. 404-411. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2022) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] [PERSON] Over-the-Air Firmware Updates for Constrained NB-IoT Devices. _Sensors_**2022**, _22_, 7572. [CrossRef]* [PERSON] et al. (2021) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] Remote Online Firmware Upgrade System for Embedded Devices based on ZigBee. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Electronic Information Technology and Smart Agriculture (ICEITSA), Huaihua, China, 10-12 December 2021; pp. 55-60. [CrossRef]
* [PERSON] et al. (2024) [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON]; [PERSON] Implementation of a Product-Recommender System in an IoT-Based Smart Shopping Using Fuzzy Logic and Apriori Algorithm. _IEEE Trans. Eng. Manag._**2024**, _71_, 4940-4954. [CrossRef]  
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