A Novel Approach to Improve the Adaptive-Data-Rate Scheme for IoT LoRaWAN
Researcher Name
Mohammad Aljaidi
Name Of Journal
Electronics
Volume No.
11 (21), 3521
Date Of Publication
2022.10
Abstract
The long-range wide-area network (LoRaWAN) uses the adaptive-data-rate (ADR) algorithm
to control the data rate and transmission power. The LoRaWAN ADR algorithm adjusts
the spreading factor (SF) to allocate the appropriate transmission rate and transmission power to
reduce power consumption.The updating SF and transmission power of the standard ADR algorithm
are based on the channel state, but it does not guarantee efficient energy consumption among all
the nodes in complex environments with high-varying channel conditions. Therefore, this article
proposes a new enhancement approach to the ADR+ algorithm at the network server, which only
depends on the average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The enhancement ADR algorithm ADR++ introduces
an energy-efficiency controller a related to the total energy consumption of all nodes, to use
it for adjusting the average SNR of the last records. We implement our new enhanced ADR at the
network server (NS) using the FLoRa module in OMNET++. The simul