Evaluation of LoRa nodes for long-range communication

Abstract

The Internet of Things concept can be implemented using Long-range wireless access network protocol. The work in this article is done to implement LoRa terrestrial network which will be connected to a satellite in future. The work mainly studies the number of collisions and the impact of it on the network. The work is simulated and is done to determine the number of LoRa nodes which can successfully transmit at a given time. Different combinations of spreading factor and bandwidth at different duty cycles are used to assess the performance of the network.