Article,
LoRaPlan: A Software to Evaluate Gateway Placement in LoRaWAN
17th International Conference on Network and Service Management, (October 2021)
Abstract
Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is one
of the fastest growing Internet of Things (IoT) access network
solutions. One major challenge in current LoRaWAN planning
is message collision due to the random channel access. To study
the collision behavior in LoRaWAN, we present LoRaPlan in
this demonstration. LoRaPlan is a software to evaluate gateway
placement decisions by studying the collision probability.
Therefore, sensor and gateway locations can be imported to
create a LoRaWAN. Furthermore, existing networks can be
extended by additional gateways. Based on this setup, network
coverage, network quality with regard to the number of sensors
a single gateway has to manage, and also transmission quality
and collision probabilities can be studied.
In this demonstration, first the process of network creation
with gateway and sensor import and additional manual gateway
placement in LoRaPlan is presented. Different adjustable parameters
are shown and the influence on network coverage and
collision probability is discussed. At the end of this demonstration,
it is possible for the audience to place their own gateways
and evaluate own placements by means of collision probability
and the coverage.
