A Study of LoRa: Long Range & Low Power Networks for the Internet of Things

By Aloys Augustin, Jiazi Yi, T. Clausen, W. Townsley. Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2016

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LoRa is a long-range, low-power, low-bitrate, wireless telecommunications system, promoted as an infrastructure solution for the Internet of Things: end-devices use LoRa across a single wireless hop to communicate to gateway(s), connected to the Internet and which act as transparent bridges and relay messages between these end-devices and a central network server. This paper provides an overview of LoRa and an in-depth analysis of its functional components. The physical and data link layer performance is evaluated by field tests and simulations. Based on the analysis and evaluations, some possible solutions for performance enhancements are proposed.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Performance evaluation of LoRa networks in a smart city scenario (2017, background): “In [4], instead, some field trials of LoRa end nodes are carried out in a urban environment and computer simulations of the LoRa Medium Access Control (MAC) layer procedures are run to evaluate the throughput of a LoRa network.”
Performance of a low-power wide-area network based on LoRa technology: Doppler robustness, scalability, and coverage (2017, methodology): “The quality of service of the LoRa was measured with fixed 3-km range in Petric´ et al. 11 Augustin et al. 12 focused on the LoRa technology by introducing the network architecture, physical (PHY), and medium access control (MAC) layers.”
Monitoring of Large-Area IoT Sensors Using a LoRa Wireless Mesh Network System: Design and Evaluation (2018, methodology): “The time-related performance of LoRa and LoRaWAN was also evaluated [16] to determine the uncertainty of schedule to transmission and long-term clock stability.”
Scalability Analysis of Large-Scale LoRaWAN Networks in ns-3 (2017, background): “A second, but similarly lacking, pure ALOHA capacity analysis of LoRaWAN is discussed in [19].”
Internet of Things (IoT) and the Energy Sector (2020, positive): “LoRa is also used to establish long-distance broadcasts (more than 10 km in rural areas) with very low power consumption [74].”
UbeHealth: A Personalized Ubiquitous Cloud and Edge-Enabled Networked Healthcare System for Smart Cities (2018, background): “The significant advantage of LPWAN over other communication protocols are a longer lifetime of the sensor nodes, more extended communication range, and inexpensive hardware [63], [64].”
A Survey of LoRaWAN for IoT: From Technology to Application (2018, methodology): “In [34] Lora gateway was deployed on the second floor of a house in a suburban environment.”
Low Power Wide Area Network Analysis: Can LoRa Scale? (2016, background): “In fact, most of these studies are either review articles [1], [3], [4], or measurement reports [5], [6].”
Energy Consumption Model for Sensor Nodes Based on LoRa and LoRaWAN (2018, methodology): “Most existing research based on LoRa and LoRaWAN has focused on features such as delay, range, throughput and network capacity [8,11–13].”
Adaptive configuration of lora networks for dense IoT deployments (2018, background): “Even though several articles studied the scalability of LoRa networks [2, 16, 21], none of them has considered the impact of ADR on performance.”