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Performance assessment of long‐range and Sigfox protocols with mobility support
Author(s) -
Oliveira Luiz,
Rodrigues Joel J. P. C.,
Kozlov Sergei A.,
Rabêlo Ricardo A. L.,
Furtado Vasco
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.3956
Subject(s) - computer science , multipath propagation , range (aeronautics) , global positioning system , computer network , real time computing , telecommunications , channel (broadcasting) , materials science , composite material
Summary Low‐power wide area networks (LP‐WANs) protocols are considered options to meet the requirements of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions that need long‐range communication with low power consumption. Few studies intended to evaluate the performance of the same class of protocols coexisting in the same environment and with mobility support. This paper explores the technical characteristics of Sigfox and long‐range (LoRa) protocols and presents a performance evaluation study considering mobility scenarios. The experiments were performed in real environments. Then, two prototypes for LoRa and Sigfox equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) were created. Quantitative and qualitative performance metrics were also proposed for this study. The results showed that the coexistence between these protocols has soft impact on the performance presented. Because of the movement, the effects of Doppler, multipath, and signal fading hardly affect the performance of both protocols.