Title
On the evaluation of application level delays in public LoRaWAN networks
Abstract
The Internet of Things paradigm aims to connect a very large number of smart objects located all around the world for increasing the knowledge about the environment. Low-power wireless communications are compulsory to reduce the smart object invasiveness and ensure reasonable duration of autonomous node. For this reason, several Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies have been proposed in the recent past, because of their large range and low consumption. Most notably, the LoRaWAN solution emerged as the most accepted LPWAN and several research works appeared, discussing its advantages and limitations. However, very few, if any, discuss timing performance in a real scenario, considering not only the wireless frontend but also the wired backend. In this work, the authors implement a real use case based on a public LoRaWAN infrastructure and propose metrics to formally evaluate the delays at the application level (i.e. considering the whole infrastructure as a black box). The result is an average delay in the range 400-700 ms, and the proof that the delay is directly dependent on both the LoRaWAN backend and the connection speed of information endpoints.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/IWMN.2019.8805012
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Measurements & Networking (M&N)
Keywords
Field
DocType
IoT sensors,Wireless sensor networks LPWAN,LoRaWAN,LoRa radio,end-to-end delay
Black box (phreaking),End-to-end delay,Wireless,Computer science,Internet of Things,Computer network,Large numbers,Smart objects,LPWAN
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2639-507X
978-1-7281-1274-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dhiego Fernandes Carvalho111.09
Alessandro Depari212127.34
Paolo Ferrari339259.01
Alessandra Flammini449287.79
Stefano Rinaldi519031.39
Emiliano Sisinni645756.63