Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings

Giannis Kazdaridis; Stratos Keranidis; Polychronis Symeonidis; Panagiotis Tzimotoudis; Ioannis Zographopoulos; Panagiotis Skrimponis; Thanasis Korakis

doi:10.1145/3349623.3355474

Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings

Giannis Kazdaridis
, Stratos Keranidis
, Polychronis Symeonidis
, Panagiotis Tzimotoudis
, Ioannis Zographopoulos
, Panagiotis Skrimponis
, Thanasis Korakis

Engineering

University of Thessaly
Center for Research and Technology - Hellas

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a LoRa based city-scale testbed that employs several sensing devices scattered across the urban area to characterize air quality and weather conditions in real-time. The installation is augmented through a custom link quality evaluation framework that continuously monitors the Packet Delivery Ratio versus RSSI relation to characterize the performance of LoRa standard under realistic conditions. Experimental results, collected over a period of 2 months, efficiently analyze LoRa’s performance across a wide range of protocol configurations. Finally, we also present in-lab experiments that characterize the efficiency of LoRa modules in terms of power and energy efficiency per bit, along with valuable insights aimed at the development of energy efficient protocol improvements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	WiNTECH 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, co-located with MobiCom 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	29-36
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450369312
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355474
State	Published - Oct 4 2019
Event	13th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH 2019, co-located with ACM MobiCom 2019 - Los Cabos, Mexico Duration: Oct 25 2019 → …

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Conference

Conference	13th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH 2019, co-located with ACM MobiCom 2019
Country/Territory	Mexico
City	Los Cabos
Period	10/25/19 → …

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Software

Keywords

Energy Efficiency
LoRa Performance Evaluation
LoRa Technology
Testbed Experimentation

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Kazdaridis, G., Keranidis, S., Symeonidis, P., Tzimotoudis, P., Zographopoulos, I., Skrimponis, P., & Korakis, T. (2019). Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings. In WiNTECH 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, co-located with MobiCom 2019 (pp. 29-36). (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355474

Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings. / Kazdaridis, Giannis; Keranidis, Stratos; Symeonidis, Polychronis et al.
WiNTECH 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. p. 29-36 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kazdaridis, G, Keranidis, S, Symeonidis, P, Tzimotoudis, P, Zographopoulos, I, Skrimponis, P & Korakis, T 2019, Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings. in WiNTECH 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 29-36, 13th ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, WiNTECH 2019, co-located with ACM MobiCom 2019, Los Cabos, Mexico, 10/25/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3349623.3355474

Kazdaridis G, Keranidis S, Symeonidis P, Tzimotoudis P, Zographopoulos I, Skrimponis P et al. Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed: experimentation insights and findings. In WiNTECH 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. p. 29-36. (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM). doi: 10.1145/3349623.3355474

Kazdaridis, Giannis ; Keranidis, Stratos ; Symeonidis, Polychronis et al. / Evaluation of LoRa performance in a city-wide testbed : experimentation insights and findings. WiNTECH 2019 - Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation and Characterization, co-located with MobiCom 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. pp. 29-36 (Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM).

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