Understanding the Limits of LoRaWAN

By F. Adelantado, Xavier Vilajosana, Pere Tuset, Borja Martínez, J. Melià-Seguí, Thomas Watteyne. IEEE Communications Magazine, 2016

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Low-power wide area networking technology offers long-range communication, which enables new types of services. Several solutions exist; LoRaWAN is arguably the most adopted. It promises ubiquitous connectivity in outdoor IoT applications, while keeping network structures and management simple. This technology has received a lot of attention in recent months from network operators and solution providers. However, the technology has limitations that need to be clearly understood to avoid inflated expectations and disillusionment. This article provides an impartial and fair overview of the capabilities and limitations of LoRaWAN. We discuss those in the context of use cases, and list open research and development questions.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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A Survey of LoRaWAN for IoT: From Technology to Application (2018, methodology): “According to Adelantado et al [29], LoRaWAN is feasible for use cases such as smart-city applications, metering and logistics (tracking), while it is less feasible for real-time monitoring (unless low scale deployment is used) and not feasible at all for cases such as video surveillance.”
Scalability Analysis of Large-Scale LoRaWAN Networks in ns-3 (2017, background): “[20] also calculated LoRaWAN capacity as the superposition of independent ALOHA-based networks (one for each channel and for each SF).”
Split Computing and Early Exiting for Deep Learning Applications: Survey and Research Challenges (2021, background): “5 Kbps due to duty cycle limitations [1].”
Digital Twin: Values, Challenges and Enablers From a Modeling Perspective (2019, neutral): “[449] F.”
Low Power Wide Area Networks: An Overview (2016, background): “Increasing number of recently published studies [8], [36]–[38] are revealing practical limitations on the scalability of LPWA networks.”
Cellular, Wide-Area, and Non-Terrestrial IoT: A Survey on 5G Advances and the Road Toward 6G (2021, neutral): “25-50 kbps (dependent on BW, SF) [111] 3-7 mbps (uplink); 4 mbps (downlink) 127 kbps (uplink); 159 kbps (downlink) [Rel 14]”
Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks for Precision Agriculture: A Review (2017, background): “The network size of the LoRa protocol is limited by its duty cycle, where a 1% duty cycle can lead to a maximum communication time of 36 s per hour for each end device [54].”