Low-Power Wide-Area Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, Risks and Threats (低功耗廣域網路：機會、挑戰、風險與威脅)

Ismail Butun (Ph.D.) received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Hacettepe University. He received his second M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Bursa Technical University and Abdullah Gul University from 2015-2018. Dr. Butun was a post-doctoral researcher/fellow by various universities (University of Delaware, Mid Sweden University, Chalmers University of Technology, and finally KTH Royal Institute of Technology) in 2016-2021. Since February 2022, he is with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, engaged in IoT security-related EU projects and automotive domain cyber-security projects.

Dr. Butun has more than 50 articles in international peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings, along with an H-index of 21 and I-index of 31. He is an editor of Springer Nature, IGI Global, IEEE Accessand MDPI Sensors journals. He served as a TPC for various conferences held by IEEE, Springer, and IARIA. His research interests include but not limited to; computer networks, wireless communications, WSNs, IoT, cyber-physical systems, cryptography, network security, and intrusion detection.

Dr. Butun is a well-recognized academic reviewer for IEEE, ACM, and Springer. He served for 39 various scientific journals and conferences in the review process of more than 207 articles. He contributed as a track chair and session chair for numerous international conferences and workshops and performed as a technical program committee (TPC) member for several international conferences organized by IEEE, Springer, and ACM. His research interests include but not limited to; computer networks, wireless communications, WSNs, IoT, IIoT, LPWAN, LoRa, cyber-physical systems, cryptography, network security, and intrusion detection.

Ian F. Akyildiz (Ph.D.) received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, in 1978, 1981 and 1984, respectively. He is the President and CTO of the Truva Inc. since March 1989. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates since June 1, 2020. He is also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Iceland and University of Helsinki since Fall 2020. He is the Ken Byers Chair Professor Emeritus in Telecommunications, Past Chair of the Telecom group at the ECE and the former Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1985-2020. Dr. Akyildiz had many international affiliations during his career. He established many research centers in Spain, South Africa, Finland, Saudi Arabia, Germany, Russia, India, Cyprus, etc.

He is the Founder and Editor in Chief of the newly established of the ITU (International Telecommunication Union) Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU-J FET) since August 2020, and is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier) (1999-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (Elsevier) (2003-2019), the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal (Elsevier) (2008-2017), and the founding Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the Nano Communication Networks (NANOCOMNET) Journal (Elsevier) (2010-2017). He is an IEEE Fellow (1996) and ACM Fellow (1997) and received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM and other professional organizations, including Humboldt Award from Germany. His current research interests are in Internet of Things, 6G/7G Wireless Systems, TeraHertz Communication. According to Google Scholar as of November 2022, his h-index is 135 and the total number of citations to his papers is 138+K.

伊斯梅爾·布圖恩（Ismail Butun，Ph.D.）於哈哲特佩大學獲得電氣與電子工程的學士及碩士學位。他於2009年和2013年分別在南佛羅里達大學獲得第二個碩士學位和博士學位。他曾於2015年至2018年擔任布爾薩科技大學和阿卜杜拉·古爾大學的助理教授。布圖恩博士於2016年至2021年間在多所大學（德拉瓦大學、中瑞典大學、查爾默斯科技大學，最後是瑞典皇家理工學院）擔任博士後研究員/研究員。自2022年2月以來，他在瑞典RISE研究院工作，參與與物聯網安全相關的歐盟項目及汽車領域的網絡安全項目。

布圖恩博士在國際同行評審的科學期刊和會議論文集中發表了超過50篇文章，H指數為21，I指數為31。他是Springer Nature、IGI Global、IEEE Access和MDPI Sensors期刊的編輯。他曾擔任IEEE、Springer和IARIA舉辦的各種會議的技術程序委員會（TPC）成員。他的研究興趣包括但不限於：計算機網絡、無線通信、無線傳感器網絡（WSNs）、物聯網（IoT）、網絡物理系統、密碼學、網絡安全和入侵檢測。

布圖恩博士是IEEE、ACM和Springer的知名學術審稿人。他在39本不同的科學期刊和會議中參與了超過207篇文章的審稿過程。他作為多個國際會議和研討會的分會主席和會議主席，並擔任IEEE、Springer和ACM組織的幾個國際會議的技術程序委員會（TPC）成員。他的研究興趣包括但不限於：計算機網絡、無線通信、無線傳感器網絡（WSNs）、物聯網（IoT）、工業物聯網（IIoT）、低功耗廣域網（LPWAN）、LoRa、網絡物理系統、密碼學、網絡安全和入侵檢測。

伊恩·F·阿基爾迪茲（Ian F. Akyildiz，Ph.D.）於德國埃爾朗根-紐倫堡大學獲得電氣與計算機工程的學士、碩士和博士學位，分別於1978年、1981年和1984年。他自1989年3月以來擔任Truva Inc.的總裁和首席技術官。自2020年6月1日起，他還擔任阿布達比技術創新研究所（TII）的顧問委員會成員。自2020年秋季以來，他還擔任冰島大學和赫爾辛基大學的兼任教授。他是喬治亞理工學院電氣與計算機工程系電信領域的肯·拜爾斯講座名譽教授，曾擔任該系電信小組的主席，以及寬頻無線網絡實驗室的前主任，任期為1985年至2020年。阿基爾迪茲博士在其職業生涯中有許多國際合作。他在西班牙、南非、芬蘭、沙烏地阿拉伯、德國、俄羅斯、印度、塞浦路斯等地建立了多個研究中心。

他自2020年8月以來擔任國際電信聯盟（ITU）未來與演變技術期刊（ITU-J FET）的創始人及主編，並曾擔任計算機網絡期刊（Elsevier）（1999-2019）的名譽主編、臨時網絡期刊（Elsevier）（2003-2019）的創始名譽主編、物理通信期刊（PHYCOM）（Elsevier）（2008-2017）的創始名譽主編，以及納米通信網絡期刊（NANOCOMNET）（Elsevier）（2010-2017）的創始名譽主編。他是IEEE Fellow（1996）和ACM Fellow（1997），並獲得IEEE、ACM及其他專業組織的多項獎項，包括德國的洪堡獎。他目前的研究興趣包括物聯網、6G/7G無線系統和太赫茲通信。根據Google Scholar截至2022年11月的數據，他的H指數為135，論文的總引用次數超過138K。