Do LoRa Low-Power Wide-Area Networks Scale?

New Internet of Things (IoT) technologies such as Long Range (LoRa) are emerging which enable power efficient wireless communication over very long distances. Devices typically communicate directly to a sink node which removes the need of constructing and maintaining a complex multi-hop network. Given the fact that a wide area is covered and that all devices communicate directly to a few sink nodes a large number of nodes have to share the communication medium. LoRa provides for this reason a range of communication options (centre frequency, spreading factor, bandwidth, coding rates) from which a transmitter can choose. Many combination settings are orthogonal and provide simultaneous collision free…

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  Sight Research UK

  Award: NE/N007808/1
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  VINNOVA
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  Natural Environment Research Council

  Awards: NE/N007808/1, NE/N007808/1