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DCCN 2019: Distributed Computer and Communication Networks pp 15–29Cite as

On the Performance of LoRaWAN in Smart City: End-Device Design and Communication Coverage

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Expected communication scenarios within the emerging landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) bring the growth of smart devices connected in the communication network. The communication technologies of greatest interest for IoT are known as Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs). Today, there are LPWA technologies (Sigfox, Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN), and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)) capable to provide energy efficient communication as well as extended communication coverage. This paper provides an analysis of LPWA technologies and describes experimental evaluation of LoRaWAN technology in real conditions. The LoRaWAN technology provides over 150 dB Maximum Coupling Loss (MCL), which together with maximum transmission power (TX) 14 dBm and spreading factor 7 results in theoretical communication distance in units of kilometers. The obtained results from field-deployment in the city of Brno, Czech Republic confirm the initial expectations as it was possible to establish reliable communication between low-end LoRaWAN device and LoRaWAN gateway on the distance up to 6 km.

The described research was supported by the National Sustainability Program under grant LO1401. The publication has been prepared with the support of the “RUDN University Program 5-100” (recipients Irina Gudkova, Dmitry Poluektov, Petr Kharin). The reported study was funded by RFBR, project numbers 18-00-01555(18-00-01685), 19-07-00933 (recipient Konstantin Samouylov). This article is based as well upon support of international mobility project MeMoV, No. CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16\(\_\)027/00083710 funded by European Union, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Czech Republic and Brno University of Technology. For the research, infrastructure of the SIX Center (Czech Republic) as well as the 5G Lab RUDN (Russia) was used.

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Notes

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    https://lora-alliance.org/resource-hub/lorawanr-specification-v11.

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    In the Czech Republic, the regulations are driven by the Czech Telecommunication Office.

  3. 3.

    https://www.semtech.com/uploads/documents/LoraDesignGuide_STD.pdf.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/jpmeijers/RN2483-Arduino-Library.

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  1. Applied Mathematics & Communications Technology Institute, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow, Russian Federation

    Dmitry Poluektov, Michail Polovov, Petr Kharin, Irina Gudkova & Konstantin Samouylov

  2. Department of Telecommunication, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic

    Martin Stusek, Krystof Zeman, Pavel Masek, Irina Gudkova, Jiri Hosek & Konstantin Samouylov

  3. Institute of Informatics Problems, Federal Research Center Computer Science and Control of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

    Irina Gudkova & Konstantin Samouylov

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Poluektov, D. et al. (2019). On the Performance of LoRaWAN in Smart City: End-Device Design and Communication Coverage. In: Vishnevskiy, V., Samouylov, K., Kozyrev, D. (eds) Distributed Computer and Communication Networks. DCCN 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11965. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36614-8_2

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