Experimental Performance Evaluation of the Collisions in LoRa Communications

With the development and spread of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, various organizations in industry, academia, and government have begun collecting numerous types of data using sensor devices, which they then use to predict trends and identify potential problems with the services they provide. In the IoT, low power wide area (LPWA) networks can achieve low power consumption and provide a wide range of communication options that ensure constant service provision to deployed sensors. In particular, LoRa digital wireless communication technology, which has an open specification, uses an unlicensed band, and is inexpensive to install, is becoming increasingly popular and the number of sensors equipped with it is expected to grow in the future. However, since LoRa has insufficient specifications and verifications to resist channel contention within a heavily used frequency band, the performance of that technology is unclear when the number of sensors using the same frequency band increases. In this paper, we clarify the experimental performance of LoRa when multiple wireless communication nodes compete in different patterns.