Paper Info
Title
Improving the Energy Efficiency of a LoRaWAN by a UAV-based Gateway
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) devices and applications are spreading all over around us to become the cardiovascular infrastructure for the data of the cyber-physical systems of the future. The implementation of a reliable collection of telemetry data within various application domains, including medicine, safety, and security, industry, smart cities, or environmental monitoring, to name just a few, is among the major challenges still to be solved. Importantly, many of the use cases imply a huge geographic area span or operation in remote areas with limited infrastructure availability and poor reachability. To address these scenarios in this paper, we propose a combination of the two technologies the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) and the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Specifically, we study the energy utility and the communication performance of introducing a UAV-based GW into an LPWAN based on the LoRaWAN technology. The results of our simulations show that a UAV-based GW enables to reduce the mean energy consumption for communication in the network by up to 59%. Depending on the UAV speed, the communication performance in terms of the packet delivery ratio can either increase or decrease by several percentage points.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICUMT48472.2019.8970857
2019 11th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)
Keywords
Field
DocType
LPWAN,UAV,gateway,LoRaWAN,low power,energy efficiency,wide area network,wireless,communication
Use case,Wireless,Computer science,Efficient energy use,Network packet,Computer network,Default gateway,Wide area network,Energy consumption,LPWAN,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2157-0221
978-1-7281-5765-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aleksandra Tiurlikova100.34
Nikita Stepanov200.68
Konstantin Mikhaylov318431.02