Joint Spreading Factor and Channel Assignment in Multi-Operator LoRaWAN Deployments

LoRaWAN is a popular internet of things (IoT) solution over the unlicensed radio band. It sustains low-cost, durable, and long range IoT wireless communications. Nonetheless, with over 24 billion connected IoT devices being expected by the end of the year, and over 50 billion by 2025, the concurrent...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-12, Vol.21 (1), p.162-19
Main Authors: Fawaz, Hassan, Khawam, Kinda, Lahoud, Samer, Adjih, Cedric, Martin, Steven
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
channel selection
Densification
Engineering Sciences
Game theory
Games
Internet of Things
LoRaWAN
Proposals
spreading factor
Wide area networks
Wireless communications
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Summary:LoRaWAN is a popular internet of things (IoT) solution over the unlicensed radio band. It sustains low-cost, durable, and long range IoT wireless communications. Nonetheless, with over 24 billion connected IoT devices being expected by the end of the year, and over 50 billion by 2025, the concurrent and legacy approaches to spreading factor and channel assignment in LoRaWAN networks can no longer keep up. This is exacerbated with the growing densification of IoT device deployments and, with the increasing requirements for better throughput and packet delivery ratios. In this paper, we propose a proportional fair-based joint optimal formulation for spreading factor and channel assignment in multi-operator LoRaWAN deployments. The objective of this problem is to maximize the total sum of the logarithmic normalized throughput. We split the problem into two subproblems, and propose a game theoretic approach to solving them. We prove that our games converge towards a pure Nash equilibrium and, afterwards, solve the optimization problems using both semi-distributed and completely distributed algorithms. Via simulations, we show that our algorithms greatly improve the total normalized throughput for LoRaWAN as well as the packet success rate, in comparison to the legacy approaches.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s21010162