LoRaWAN Analysis from a High-Density Internet of Things Perspective

Abstract

In order to cope with the new challenges and IoT applications LPWAN (Low-Power Wide-Area Network) networks have been created. The IoT (Internet of Things) concept is currently in the focus of the entire academic community. The main contribution of the work is the performance level evaluation associated to the LoRaWAN scalability. Within the scientific literature, there are a series of scientific papers which attempt to analyze the performance level of LoRaWAN communication technology, but none of them use a specialized software like SimpleIoTSimulator. This paper comes to fill in the gap and tries to materialize a study that allows for the analysis of the performance level. The user can easily generate the traffic from tens of thousands of LoRa nodes. The SimpleIoTSimulator platform can be directly connected to the TTN Server that receives the traffic as it is generated by real LoRa sensors. From the obtained results we can conclude that SimpleIoTSimulator ensures a high level of performance and will contribute to the opening of new research directions in the field of high density LoRa sensor networks.