LoRaWAN Class B Multicast Scalability

Yonatan Shiferaw; Apoorva Arora; Fernando Kuipers

LoRaWAN Class B Multicast Scalability

Yonatan Shiferaw, Apoorva Arora, Fernando Kuipers

Embedded Systems

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Abstract

LoRaWAN has emerged as a popular IoT commu- nications technology. It comes with three classes of operation: A, B, and C. Although many IoT use-cases, like Firmware-over- the-Air updates, require multicast, Class A cannot be used for that purpose. Class C can, but consumes a lot of energy. This leaves Class B. In this paper, we investigate Class B multicast and its scalability properties. Issues like multicast member capacity, beacon blocking, and beacon collisions are highlighted, and several approaches to mitigate them are proposed: (1) “Ping-Slot Relaying,” to allow for more multicast members, (2) a scheduling approach indicating when to best send multicast packets, and (3) “Dynamic Region Formation” to coordinate the sending of beacons over multiple gateways. The proposed solutions do not require any modifications to the LoRaWAN protocol.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020
Publisher	IFIP
Pages	609-613
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-903176-28-7
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	19th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, Networking 2020 - Paris, France Duration: 22 Jun 2020 → 25 Jun 2020 Conference number: 19

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Name	IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020

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Conference	19th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, Networking 2020
Abbreviated title	Networking 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	22/06/20 → 25/06/20
Other	Virtual/online event due to COVID-19

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Virtual/online event due to COVID-19
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LoRaWAN Class B
Multicast

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Shiferaw, Y, Arora, A & Kuipers, F 2020, LoRaWAN Class B Multicast Scalability. in IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020., 9142813, IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020, IFIP, pp. 609-613, 19th International IFIP TC6 Networking Conference, Networking 2020, Paris, France, 22/06/20. <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9142813>

LoRaWAN Class B Multicast Scalability. / Shiferaw, Yonatan; Arora, Apoorva; Kuipers, Fernando.
IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020. IFIP, 2020. p. 609-613 9142813 (IFIP Networking 2020 Conference and Workshops, Networking 2020).

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