Do LoRa low-power wide-area networks scale?

MSWiM 2016 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 59-67

  Bor, Martin ^a   Roedig, Utz ^a   Voigt, Thiemo ^b   Alonso, Juan M ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CUYO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

LoRa; Low Power Wide Area Network; Scalability Analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; INTERNET OF THINGS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; SCALABILITY; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION MEDIUM; DYNAMIC COMMUNICATION; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); LORA; LOW POWER; SCALABILITY ANALYSIS; SIMULTANEOUS COLLISIONS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 85007017824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2988287.2989163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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