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  • Wireless Communication
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Network Protocols

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  • LoRa is a low-power, long-range technology for IoT devices, often deployed in remote areas with intermittent gateway connectivity.
  • Current LoRaWAN standards use an Aloha-style transmission, causing packet collisions and data delivery issues when many devices transmit simultaneously.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address data collection challenges in LoRaWAN networks with unreliable gateway access.
  • To propose and evaluate a time-slotted transmission scheduling mechanism to improve data delivery efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Formulated a data scheduling optimization problem considering LoRa characteristics.
  • Compared the proposed mechanism against low-complexity heuristics.
  • Conducted simulations to assess performance.
  • Developed a proof-of-concept to evaluate schedule communication overhead.

Main Results:

  • The time-slotted scheduling significantly reduces data collection time, achieving speeds at least 10 times faster than Aloha-based approaches for large networks (100+ nodes).
  • Synchronous communication enhances overall network performance.
  • Experimental results validated the feasibility and overhead of communicating the schedule.

Conclusions:

  • A time-slotted transmission scheduling mechanism is effective for improving LoRaWAN data collection efficiency, especially in scenarios with intermittent connectivity.
  • This approach mitigates packet collisions and accelerates data retrieval for large-scale IoT deployments.