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K. Mikhaylov, J. Petäjäjärvi and A. Pouttu, "Effect of Downlink Traffic on Performance of LoRaWAN LPWA Networks: Empirical Study," 2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Bologna, 2018, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8580721

Effect of downlink traffic on performance of LoRaWAN LPWA networks : empirical study

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Author: Mikhaylov, Konstantin1; Petäjäjärvi, Juha1; Pouttu, Ari1
Organizations: 1Centre for Wireless Communications Oulu, Finland
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.9 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201902064175
Language: English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018
Publish Date: 2019-02-06
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Abstract

Today the LoRaWAN is among the most widely adopted Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) technologies. In contrast to the other alternatives, LoRaWAN enables deploying both continent-wide public networks, and private networks composing one or several gateways. In this paper, we empirically investigate how does the presence of the downlink traffic affects the performance of uplink for LoRaWAN operating in 868 MHz EU bands. Our results show that in real-life the downlink transmissions can compromise performance of uplink and must be accounted for when planning a network. Also we demonstrate the effects that the selection of secondary frequency channels and data rates have on the performance of a LoRaWAN network. The reported results reveal new dependences and provide the ground truth reference for the future analytical works. For these reasons, the paper can be of interest to both practitioners, planning and deploying LoRaWAN networks, and the researchers performing analytical work on LoRaWAN.

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Series: IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications workshops
ISSN: 2166-9570
ISSN-E: 2166-9589
ISSN-L: 2166-9570
ISBN: 978-1-5386-6009-6
ISBN Print: 978-1-5386-6010-2
Pages: 1 - 6
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8580721
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8580721
Host publication: 2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
Conference: Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Type of Publication: A4 Article in conference proceedings
Field of Science: 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
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Funding: The work was undertaken in the context of the P2PSMARTEST project (http://www.p2psmartesth2020.eu/), an Innovation Action funded by the H2020 Programme, contract number 646469, and the LPWANevolution activity funded by the University of Oulu. Also this research has been financially supported by Academy of Finland 6Genesis Flagship (grant 318927) program.
EU Grant Number: (646469) P2P-SmarTest - Peer to Peer Smart Energy Distribution Networks (P2P-SmartTest)
Academy of Finland Grant Number: 318927
Detailed Information: 318927 (Academy of Finland Funding decision)
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