A minimalistic distance-vector routing protocol for LoRa mesh networks
LoRa has gained traction in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain as a Low Power, Wide Area Network(LPWAN) radio technology, providing low-power and long-range communication in the sub-GHz band. Most often it is used as part of the LoRaWAN architecture with a star-of-stars topology, but it can also be...
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| Tipo de recurso: | informe técnico |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/347444 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/347444 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Internet of things Wireless communication systems Routing protocols (Computer network protocols) LoRa Mesh Multi-hop Routing LPWAN Internet de les coses Comunicació sense fil, Sistemes de Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Telemàtica i xarxes d'ordinadors |
| Sumario: | LoRa has gained traction in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain as a Low Power, Wide Area Network(LPWAN) radio technology, providing low-power and long-range communication in the sub-GHz band. Most often it is used as part of the LoRaWAN architecture with a star-of-stars topology, but it can also be operated standalone, with a more flexible mesh network topology. In this paper, we propose a minimalistic Distance-vector (DV) Routing Protocol (RP) for LoRa mesh networks. Ittakes advantage of LoRa’s multiple Spreading Factors (SFs), their trade-off between transmission distance and bit rate, and their orthogonality property. This way, it can use well-known metrics like Hop Count (HC), Expected Transmission Count (ETX), etc., and also more complex ones, like multi-SF-aware Time on Air (ToA). In the future, we aim at evaluating it both with the FLoRa framework and the OMNeT++ simulator, and with embedded boards featuring a LoRa radio transceiver. |
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