Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES)
Doi
Abstract
Long range communications technology (LoRa) has been widely used in a
variety of applications and researched in different domains to exploit its full
potential. Its openness makes it ideal for a variety of internet of things (IoT)
installations which further allows opportunities for viable solutions in
vehicular communications. Hence, a bibliometric analysis was performed to
distinguish the application and growth of the technology specifically in
vehicular communications. The scoping review processes from Arksey and
O’Malley was applied to guide the review process. The selected scholarly
works adhered to the PRISMA-Sc framework where 385 articles from two
main electronic databases, i.e., Scopus and Science Direct which discussed
LoRa in vehicular communications contexts were assessed. This study aims
to examine how LoRa’s research has grown from year 2010 to 2021 among
the scholars and determine key areas discussed in LoRa’s vehicular
communications research. Findings from 70 studies in the final analysis
indicated that LoRa has been widely studied based on application, theoretical
or protocol and performance. However, it has not been widely explored in
vehicular context. Hence, our findings support the global research community
in this context
