CSMA Protocol performance with dynamic spreading factor in LPWAN networks with LoRa RF transceivers

Long Range (LoRa) is a spread spectrum modulation technology designed for Low-Power Wide-Area Networking (LPWAN) with a growing application in Internet of Things (IoT), which plays an important role in the global digitalization process. The expansion of LORAWAN networks demands careful circuit, syst...

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Autor: Pires, Luis Miguel Rego
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Institución:Instituto Superior de Educação Vera Cruz (VeraCruz)
Repositorio:Revista Veras
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br:article/60219
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.brazilianjournals.com.br/ojs/index.php/BRJD/article/view/60219
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:IoT
LPWAN
LoRaWAN
LoRa
spreading factor
LoRaSim
CSMA/CA
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Sumario:Long Range (LoRa) is a spread spectrum modulation technology designed for Low-Power Wide-Area Networking (LPWAN) with a growing application in Internet of Things (IoT), which plays an important role in the global digitalization process. The expansion of LORAWAN networks demands careful circuit, system and network design to improve energy efficiency and quality of service. To support this task, advanced CAD tools can offer reliable network simulations results, where the effects of building blocks can be found. LoRaSim, one of the most popular simulators available for LoRa and LoraWan, had solely implemented an ALOHA access model protocol, which is not the most common protocol in real life scenarios. To mitigate this limitation and taking advantage of the open-source nature of both LoRaWAN and LoRaSim, it is proposed a Carrier Sense Multiple Access/ Collision Avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol extension, as well as active adaptive parameters selection to cope with collisions. To demonstrate the effectiveness of these additions to the base solution, a comparison between both on different scenarios and their simulated performance key indicators will be presented.