Journal
SENSORS
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s21041444
Keywords
LoRaWAN; GACK; scalability; massive IoT
Funding
- Industrial Strategic Technology Development Program [20001798]
- Ministry of Trade, Industry Energy
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This paper introduces a novel MAC protocol, DG-LoRa, which maximizes the number of responses to data frames transmitted from end devices by allocating spreading factors and timeslots in the frame structure. DG-LoRa supports approximately five times more connections to the LoRa network compared to legacy LoRaWAN, with a 5% data drop rate, and it reduces the number of data frame retransmissions.
In this paper, we propose a novel MAC protocol, called DG-LoRa, for improving scalability in low power wide area networks. DG-LoRa is backward compatible with legacy LoRaWAN and adds new features, such as group acknowledgment transmissions in the time-synchronized frame structure that supports determinism on channel access. In DG-LoRa, the number of responses to data frames that are transmitted from end devices is maximized by allocating the spreading factor and timeslot in the frame structure. We evaluate the performance of DG-LoRa using the Monte-Carlo simulation and then compare it with the performance of legacy LoRaWAN in terms of data drop rate and the number of retransmissions. Our numerical results show that DG-LoRa supports approximately five times more connections to the LoRa network satisfying a 5% data drop rate. Also, it is observed that DG-LoRa enables low overhead by reducing the number of data frame retransmissions.
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