Capture Aware Sequential Waterfilling for LoraWAN Adaptive Data Rate

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Main Authors: Bianchi, Giuseppe, Cuomo, Francesca, Garlisi, Domenico, Tinnirello, Ilenia
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Published: 2019
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author Bianchi, Giuseppe
Cuomo, Francesca
Garlisi, Domenico
Tinnirello, Ilenia
author_facet Bianchi, Giuseppe
Cuomo, Francesca
Garlisi, Domenico
Tinnirello, Ilenia
contents LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is emerging as an attractive network infrastructure for ultra low power Internet of Things devices. Even if the technology itself is quite mature and specified, the currently deployed wireless resource allocation strategies are still coarse and based on rough heuristics. This paper proposes an innovative "sequential waterfilling" strategy for assigning Spreading Factors (SF) to End-Devices (ED). Our design relies on three complementary approaches: i) equalize the Time-on-Air of the packets transmitted by the system's EDs in each spreading factor's group; ii) balance the spreading factors across multiple access gateways, and iii) keep into account the channel capture, which our experimental results show to be very substantial in LoRa. While retaining an extremely simple and scalable implementation, this strategy yields a significant improvement (up to 38%) in the network capacity over the legacy Adaptive Data Rate (ADR), and appears to be extremely robust to different operating/load conditions and network topology configurations.
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spellingShingle Capture Aware Sequential Waterfilling for LoraWAN Adaptive Data Rate
Bianchi, Giuseppe
Cuomo, Francesca
Garlisi, Domenico
Tinnirello, Ilenia
Networking and Internet Architecture
LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) is emerging as an attractive network infrastructure for ultra low power Internet of Things devices. Even if the technology itself is quite mature and specified, the currently deployed wireless resource allocation strategies are still coarse and based on rough heuristics. This paper proposes an innovative "sequential waterfilling" strategy for assigning Spreading Factors (SF) to End-Devices (ED). Our design relies on three complementary approaches: i) equalize the Time-on-Air of the packets transmitted by the system's EDs in each spreading factor's group; ii) balance the spreading factors across multiple access gateways, and iii) keep into account the channel capture, which our experimental results show to be very substantial in LoRa. While retaining an extremely simple and scalable implementation, this strategy yields a significant improvement (up to 38%) in the network capacity over the legacy Adaptive Data Rate (ADR), and appears to be extremely robust to different operating/load conditions and network topology configurations.
title Capture Aware Sequential Waterfilling for LoraWAN Adaptive Data Rate
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12360