Throughput and Packet Loss Probability Analysis of Long Range Wide Area Network

• Main Authors: Ji-Young Jung, Jung-Ryun Lee
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-08-01
• Series: Applied Sciences
• Subjects: Internet of Things; low power wide area network; long range wide area network; Markov chain model
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/17/8091

Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is the one of the promising low power wide area network (LPWAN) technologies at present and is expected to grow in the foreseeable future as a tool to provide connectivity among small things. In this paper, we present a simple analytical model to compute the throughput and packet loss probability of Medium Access Control (MAC) for Class-A of LoRaWAN. This analysis results can be used as a reference for deploying the appropriate number of end-devices (EDs) that can be accepted in a gateway (GW) while maximizing network throughput or guaranteeing the packet loss rate of EDs.