Scalability Analysis of a LoRa Network under Imperfect Orthogonality

Low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies are gaining momentum for internet-of-things (IoT) applications since they promise wide coverage to a massive number of battery-operated devices using grant-free medium access. LoRaWAN, with its physical (PHY) layer design and regulatory efforts, has emerged as the widely adopted LPWAN solution. By using chirp spread spectrum modulation with qausi-orthogonal spreading factors (SFs), LoRa PHY offers coverage to wide-area applications while supporting high-density of devices. However, thus far its scalability performance has been inadequately modeled and the effect of interference resulting from the imperfect orthogonality of the SFs has not been considered. In this paper, we present an analytical model of a single-cell LoRa system that accounts for the impact of interference among transmissions over the same SF (co-SF) as well as different SFs (inter-SF). By modeling the interference field as Poisson point process under duty-cycled ALOHA, we derive the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) distributions for several interference conditions. Results show that, for a duty cycle as low as 0.33%, the network performance under co-SF interference alone is considerably optimistic as the inclusion of inter-SF interference unveils a further drop in the success probability and the coverage probability of approximately 10% and 15%, respectively for 1500 devices in a LoRa channel. Finally, we illustrate how our analysis can characterize the critical device density with respect to cell size for a given reliability target

Protection of information networks based on LoRa technology

The paper deals with modern technology for transmitting short messages over long distances named LoRa, where the transmitted signal uses linear frequency modulation (chirp). The object of the study to define lack of transmitters that it has a design on LoRa technology for assessment their applicable in condition urban city where there are a lot of radiation sources. The goal of the work is the creation of a method of assessing the act the interference conditions that based on measurement bit error rate and signal-noise ratio and via on which to get individual host vulnerability levels. The processing of these signals is carried out by means of a time-frequency transformation. The chirp signal is characterized by 4 parameters: frequencies, time, modulation rate and amplitude. By analogy with the wavelet transform, the processing of chirp signals involves a chirplet decomposition. Since the chirp signals are strongly influenced by mutual interference due to multipath, the article studies the effectiveness of LoRa technology in conditions of mutual interference of radiation sources. The developed method utilized chirplet decomposition and retrieve symbols of a message in the dictionary. The conducted experiments have confirmed the proposed software operability and allow recommending it for use in practice for solving the problems receiving signal. The prospects for further research may include the creation of parallel methods for calculation of the set of proposed indicators, the improvement of software, as well as an experimental study of proposed indicators in real conditions.The paper deals with modern technology for transmitting short messages over long distances named LoRa, where the transmitted signal uses linear frequency modulation (chirp). The object of the study to define lack of transmitters that it has a design on LoRa technology for assessment their applicable in condition urban city where there are a lot of radiation sources. The goal of the work is the creation of a method of assessing the act the interference conditions that based on measurement bit error rate and signal-noise ratio and via on which to get individual host vulnerability levels. The processing of these signals is carried out by means of a time-frequency transformation. The chirp signal is characterized by 4 parameters: frequencies, time, modulation rate and amplitude. By analogy with the wavelet transform, the processing of chirp signals involves a chirplet decomposition. Since the chirp signals are strongly influenced by mutual interference due to multipath, the article studies the effectiveness of LoRa technology in conditions of mutual interference of radiation sources. The developed method utilized chirplet decomposition and retrieve symbols of a message in the dictionary. The conducted experiments have confirmed the proposed software operability and allow recommending it for use in practice for solving the problems receiving signal. The prospects for further research may include the creation of parallel methods for calculation of the set of proposed indicators, the improvement of software, as well as an experimental study of proposed indicators in real conditions.National Aviation Universit

Protection of information networks based on LoRa technology

The paper deals with modern technology for transmitting short messages over long distances named LoRa, where the transmitted signal uses linear frequency modulation (chirp). The object of the study to define lack of transmitters that it has a design on LoRa technology for assessment their applicable in condition urban city where there are a lot of radiation sources. The goal of the work is the creation of a method of assessing the act the interference conditions that based on measurement bit error rate and signal-noise ratio and via on which to get individual host vulnerability levels. The processing of these signals is carried out by means of a time-frequency transformation. The chirp signal is characterized by 4 parameters: frequencies, time, modulation rate and amplitude. By analogy with the wavelet transform, the processing of chirp signals involves a chirplet decomposition. Since the chirp signals are strongly influenced by mutual interference due to multipath, the article studies the effectiveness of LoRa technology in conditions of mutual interference of radiation sources. The developed method utilized chirplet decomposition and retrieve symbols of a message in the dictionary. The conducted experiments have confirmed the proposed software operability and allow recommending it for use in practice for solving the problems receiving signal. The prospects for further research may include the creation of parallel methods for calculation of the set of proposed indicators, the improvement of software, as well as an experimental study of proposed indicators in real conditions.The paper deals with modern technology for transmitting short messages over long distances named LoRa, where the transmitted signal uses linear frequency modulation (chirp). The object of the study to define lack of transmitters that it has a design on LoRa technology for assessment their applicable in condition urban city where there are a lot of radiation sources. The goal of the work is the creation of a method of assessing the act the interference conditions that based on measurement bit error rate and signal-noise ratio and via on which to get individual host vulnerability levels. The processing of these signals is carried out by means of a time-frequency transformation. The chirp signal is characterized by 4 parameters: frequencies, time, modulation rate and amplitude. By analogy with the wavelet transform, the processing of chirp signals involves a chirplet decomposition. Since the chirp signals are strongly influenced by mutual interference due to multipath, the article studies the effectiveness of LoRa technology in conditions of mutual interference of radiation sources. The developed method utilized chirplet decomposition and retrieve symbols of a message in the dictionary. The conducted experiments have confirmed the proposed software operability and allow recommending it for use in practice for solving the problems receiving signal. The prospects for further research may include the creation of parallel methods for calculation of the set of proposed indicators, the improvement of software, as well as an experimental study of proposed indicators in real conditions.National Aviation Universit

Optimisation de la capacité des réseaux LoRa

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LoRa 네트워크에서 에너지 효율성을 위한 노드 기반 ADR 메커니즘

학위논문 (석사) -- 서울대학교 대학원 : 공과대학 컴퓨터공학부, 2020. 8. 김종권.Recently, as Internet of Things (IoT) systems have increased and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been expanding, studies related to them are increasing. Among them, the interest in long range communication technologies has increased. In this regard, Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) network technologies such as Long Range (LoRa), Weightless, and Sigfox have emerged. Also, various studies related to LoRa and LoRaWAN, which are available in Industrial Scientific and Medical (ISM) bands, are being conducted. In LoRa networks, the nodes are connected to the gateway by one hop to form a start topology. LoRa nodes use the transmission parameters such as Spreading Factor (SF), Transmission Power (TP), Bandwidth (BW), Coding Rate (CR), and Carrier Frequency (CF) to transmit frames. In this process, the frame losses and the collisions between frames may occur because of the channel condition and transmission timing. To alleviate this problem, LoRaWAN utilizes the ADR mechanism to select appropriate transmission parameters considering the channel condition on the node side. In addition, there is the ADR mechanism for allocating the transmission parameters on the server side. The ADR mechanisms maintain the connection between the server and the nodes, and set appropriate transmission parameters. However, these existing ADR mechanisms have some limitations. First, the server side ADR mechanism increases the overhead of the server in proportion to the transmitted frames. Second, it is difficult to quickly and efficiently respond to dynamic channel. Third, the transmission parameters selected by these ADR mechanisms may not be the optimal transmission parameters for energy efficiency. These problems cause large energy consumption of the battery-powered nodes and decrease performance when the channel condition changes dynamically. In this paper, we propose a Node-based ADR Mechanism (NbADR), which is the ADR mechanism for Class A nodes in confirmed mode to minimize the server load and maximize energy efficiency. The proposed mechanism responds quickly to the channel condition based on the downlink pattern and selects the transmission parameters for efficient energy consumption by utilizing Efficiency of Energy (EoE) metric. We analyze the efficiency of the transmission parameters selected through EoE, and conduct extensive experiments. In conclusion, NbADR is more effective in terms of energy efficiency than the existing ADR mechanisms. Additionally, NbADR guarantees throughput of LoRa networks even in dynamically changing channel environments and improves fairness between the nodes.최근 IoT 시스템이 증가하고 무선 센서 네트워크가 넓어지면서 이와 관련된 연구가 증가하고 있다. 그 중에서도 장거리 통신 기술에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 이와 관련하여 LoRa, Weightless, Sigfox와 같은 LPWA네트워크 기술들이 등장하고 있다. 또한, ISM 밴드에서 사용 가능한 LoRa와 LoRaWAN 관련 다양한 연구가 진행되고 있다. LoRa 네트워크에서 노드들은 스타 토폴로지를 구성하기 위하여 게이트웨이와 1홉으로 연결되어 있다. LoRa 노드들은 프레임을 전송하기 위하여 SF, TP, BW, CR, CF와 같은 전송 파라미터를 사용한다. 이 과정에서 채널 상태와 전송 타이밍으로 인한 프레임 손실과 프레임 간 충돌이 발생할 수 있다. 이러한 문제를 완화하기 위하여 LoRaWAN에서는 노드 측에서 네트워크 상황을 고려하여 적절한 전송 파라미터를 선택하기 위한 ADR 메커니즘을 사용한다. 게다가 서버 측에서 전송 파라미터를 할당하는 ADR 메커니즘이 존재한다. ADR 메커니즘들은 서버와 노드의 연결을 유지하고 적절한 전송 파라미터를 설정한다. 하지만 기존의 ADR 메커니즘들은 일부 한계점을 가지고 있다. 첫 번째, 서버 측 ADR 메커니즘은 전송하는 프레임에 비례하여 서버의 부하를 증가시킨다. 두 번째, 동적인 채널에서 빠르고 효율적으로 대처하기 어렵다. 세 번째, 이러한 ADR 메커니즘들에서 선택된 전송 파라미터들이 에너지 효율성을 위한 최적의 전송 파라미터가 아닐 수 있다. 이러한 문제점들은 배터리로 동작하는 노드들의 큰 에너지 소모를 야기하고 LoRa 네트워크의 채널이 동적으로 변경되는 환경에서 성능을 감소시킨다. 본 논문에서 우리는 서버의 부하를 최소화하며 에너지 효율성을 최대화하는 노드 기반의 ADR 메커니즘인 NbADR을 제안한다. 제안하는 메커니즘은 노드 측에서 전송 받은 다운링크 패턴을 기반으로 채널 상황에 빠르게 대응하고, Efficiency of Energy (EoE) 메트릭을 활용하여 효율적인 에너지 소모를 위한 전송 파라미터를 선택한다. 우리는 EoE 기반으로 선택한 전송 파라미터의 효율성을 분석하고, 광범위한 실험을 진행한다. 결론적으로, NbADR은 기존의 ADR 메커니즘들과 비교하여 에너지 효율성 측면에서 효과적이다. 추가적으로, NbADR은 급격하게 변화하는 채널 환경에서LoRa 네트워크의 처리량을 보장하고 노드 간 공평성을 향상시킨다.Chapter 1 Introduction 1 Chapter 2 Related Work 4 Chapter 3 Preliminaries 7 3.1 LoRa/LoRaWAN 7 3.2 Transmission Parameters 8 3.3 ADR Mechanism 9 Chapter 4 Channel Modeling 10 4.1 Loss 10 4.2 Collision 12 Chapter 5 Node-based ADR Mechanism 14 5.1 Approach for Energy Efficiency 15 5.2 Node-based ADR Mechanism (NbADR) 17 Chapter 6 Evaluation 21 6.1 Simulation Settings 22 6.2 Simulation Results 23 Chapter 7 Conclusion 33 Bibliography 35Maste

Collision Avoidance Resource Allocation for LoRaWAN

Data Availability Statement: The data presented in this study are available on request from the corresponding author.Funding: This research was partially funded by the Andalusian Knowledge Agency (project A-TIC- 241-UGR18), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (project TEC2016-76795-C6-4-R) and the H2020 research and innovation project 5G-CLARITY (Grant No. 871428).The number of connected IoT devices is significantly increasing and it is expected to reach more than two dozens of billions of IoT connections in the coming years. Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have become very relevant for this new paradigm due to features such as large coverage and low power consumption. One of the most appealing technologies among these networks is LoRaWAN. Although it may be considered as one of the most mature LPWAN platforms, there are still open gaps such as its capacity limitations. For this reason, this work proposes a collision avoidance resource allocation algorithm named the Collision Avoidance Resource Allocation (CARA) algorithm with the objective of significantly increase system capacity. CARA leverages the multichannel structure and the orthogonality of spreading factors in LoRaWAN networks to avoid collisions among devices. Simulation results show that, assuming ideal radio link conditions, our proposal outperforms in 95.2% the capacity of a standard LoRaWAN network and increases the capacity by almost 40% assuming a realistic propagation model. In addition, it has been verified that CARA devices can coexist with LoRaWAN traditional devices, thus allowing the simultaneous transmissions of both types of devices. Moreover, a proof-of-concept has been implemented using commercial equipment in order to check the feasibility and the correct operation of our solution.Andalusian Knowledge Agency A-TIC-241-UGR18Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness TEC2016-76795-C6-4-RH2020 research and innovation project 5G-CLARITY 87142