Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA

LoRaWAN is one of the new and updated standards for IoT applications. However, the expected high density of peripheral devices for each gateway, and the absence of an operative synchronization mechanism between the gateway and peripherals, all of which challenges the networks scalability. In this pa...

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Main Author: Dina M. Ibrahim
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Language:English
Published: University of Tehran 2020-06-01
Series:Journal of Information Technology Management
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description LoRaWAN is one of the new and updated standards for IoT applications. However, the expected high density of peripheral devices for each gateway, and the absence of an operative synchronization mechanism between the gateway and peripherals, all of which challenges the networks scalability. In this paper, we propose to normalize the communication of LoRaWAN networks using a Reservation-ALOHA (R-ALOHA) instead of the standard ALOHA approach used by LoRa. The implementation is a library package placed on top of the standard LoRaWAN; thus, no modification in pre-existing LoRaWAN structure and libraries is required. Our proposed approach is based on a distributed synchronization service that is suitable for low-cost IoT end-nodes. R-ALOHA LoRaWAN gives better performance in comparison with the previous models; Pure-ALOHA LoRaWAN, Slotted-ALOHA LoRaWAN, and TDMA LoRaWAN. It significantly improves the performance of network regarding the probability of collision, the maximum throughput, and the maximum duty cycle.
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spelling doaj-art-397232e722e444edadf9647748bf240c2025-08-20T02:13:45ZengUniversity of TehranJournal of Information Technology Management2008-58932423-50592020-06-01122707810.22059/jitm.2020.7579275792Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHADina M. Ibrahim0Department of Information Technology, College of Computer, Qassim University, Saudi Arabia.LoRaWAN is one of the new and updated standards for IoT applications. However, the expected high density of peripheral devices for each gateway, and the absence of an operative synchronization mechanism between the gateway and peripherals, all of which challenges the networks scalability. In this paper, we propose to normalize the communication of LoRaWAN networks using a Reservation-ALOHA (R-ALOHA) instead of the standard ALOHA approach used by LoRa. The implementation is a library package placed on top of the standard LoRaWAN; thus, no modification in pre-existing LoRaWAN structure and libraries is required. Our proposed approach is based on a distributed synchronization service that is suitable for low-cost IoT end-nodes. R-ALOHA LoRaWAN gives better performance in comparison with the previous models; Pure-ALOHA LoRaWAN, Slotted-ALOHA LoRaWAN, and TDMA LoRaWAN. It significantly improves the performance of network regarding the probability of collision, the maximum throughput, and the maximum duty cycle.https://jitm.ut.ac.ir/article_75792_c914abe3476b0d83dc9de2b587ac44da.pdfwireless networks, lorawanreservation aloha, synchronization
spellingShingle Dina M. Ibrahim
Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA
Journal of Information Technology Management
wireless networks, lorawan
reservation aloha, synchronization
title Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA
title_full Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA
title_fullStr Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA
title_full_unstemmed Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA
title_short Improving LoRaWAN Performance Using Reservation ALOHA
title_sort improving lorawan performance using reservation aloha
topic wireless networks, lorawan
reservation aloha, synchronization
url https://jitm.ut.ac.ir/article_75792_c914abe3476b0d83dc9de2b587ac44da.pdf
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