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Abstract | ||
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Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) deployments demand long-range wireless communications, especially in urban and metropolitan areas. LoRa is one of the most promising technologies in this context due to its simplicity and flexibility. Indeed, deploying LoRa networks in dense IoT scenarios must achieve two main goals: efficient communications among a large number of devices and resilience against dynamic channel conditions due to demanding environmental settings (e.g., the presence of many buildings). This work investigates adaptive mechanisms to configure the communication parameters of LoRa networks in dense IoT scenarios. To this end, we develop FLoRa, an open-source framework for end-to-end LoRa simulations in OMNeT++. We then implement and evaluate the Adaptive Data Rate (ADR) mechanism built into LoRa to dynamically manage link parameters for scalable and efficient network operations. Extensive simulations show that ADR is effective in increasing the network delivery ratio under stable channel conditions, while keeping the energy consumption low. Our results also show that the performance of ADR is severely affected by a highly-varying wireless channel. We thereby propose an improved version of the original ADR mechanism to cope with variable channel conditions. Our proposed solution significantly increases both the reliability and the energy efficiency of communications over a noisy channel, almost irrespective of the network size. Finally, we show that the delivery ratio of very dense networks can be further improved by using a network-aware approach, wherein the link parameters are configured based on the global knowledge of the network. |
Year | Venue | Keywords |
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2018 | IEEE IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium | LoRa,configuration management,performance evaluation,adaptive data rate,reliability,energy efficiency |
Field | DocType | ISSN |
Wireless,Efficient energy use,Adaptive system,Computer science,Communication channel,Computer network,Network operations center,Physical layer,Energy consumption,Scalability,Distributed computing | Conference | 1542-1201 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.46 | 0 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Mariusz Slabicki | 1 | 27 | 7.22 |
| Gopika Premsankar | 2 | 61 | 5.41 |
| Mario Di Francesco | 3 | 1573 | 69.29 |