Performance assessment of long‐range and Sigfox protocols with mobility support

Summary Low‐power wide area networks (LP‐WANs) protocols are considered options to meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that need long‐range communication with low power consumption. Few studies intended to evaluate the performance of the same class of protocols coexisting in...

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Published in:International journal of communication systems 2019-09, Vol.32 (13), p.n/a
Main Authors: Oliveira, Luiz, Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C., Kozlov, Sergei A., Rabêlo, Ricardo A. L., Furtado, Vasco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Global positioning systems
GPS
Internet of Things
LoRa
mobility support
Performance assessment
Performance evaluation
Performance measurement
Power consumption
Protocol (computers)
protocols
real deployment
Satellite navigation systems
Sigfox
Signal fading
Wide area networks
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Summary:Summary Low‐power wide area networks (LP‐WANs) protocols are considered options to meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that need long‐range communication with low power consumption. Few studies intended to evaluate the performance of the same class of protocols coexisting in the same environment and with mobility support. This paper explores the technical characteristics of Sigfox and long‐range (LoRa) protocols and presents a performance evaluation study considering mobility scenarios. The experiments were performed in real environments. Then, two prototypes for LoRa and Sigfox equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) were created. Quantitative and qualitative performance metrics were also proposed for this study. The results showed that the coexistence between these protocols has soft impact on the performance presented. Because of the movement, the effects of Doppler, multipath, and signal fading hardly affect the performance of both protocols. This paper presents a performance analysis of LoRa and Sigfox protocols in mobility scenarios. The performance of these important protocols is analyzed using qualitative and quantitative metrics proposed for the study. It was found that performance of LoRa regarding packets loss is affected during simultaneous transmission and Sigfox is more affected by the random variation characteristics of the mobile radio channel.
ISSN:1074-5351
1099-1131
DOI:10.1002/dac.3956