Comparing the Performance of NB-IoT, LTE Cat-M1, Sigfox, and LoRa for IoT End Devices Moving at High Speeds in the Air

Shie-Yuan Wang; Jui-En Chang; Hsin Fan; Yi-Hsiu Sun

doi:10.1007/s11265-021-01660-4

Comparing the Performance of NB-IoT, LTE Cat-M1, Sigfox, and LoRa for IoT End Devices Moving at High Speeds in the Air

Shie-Yuan Wang^*, Jui-En Chang, Hsin Fan, Yi-Hsiu Sun

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Abstract

Recently, NB-IoT, LTE Cat-M1, Sigfox, and LoRa have been proposed as promising Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) technologies for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. These technologies are aimed for IoT applications such as smart meters that can tolerate long transmission delays and only need a narrow band to periodically transmit a small amount of data. Although the performances of these technologies have been studied or compared in the literature, most comparisons were conducted in non-mobile conditions. In this work, we used a drone flying at 70 km/hr along a 10 km motorway to act as a mobile IoT end device to do the performance measurements. In this paper, we report and compare the performances of these technologies in such high-speed mobile conditions in the air.

Original language	English
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Signal Processing Systems
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-021-01660-4
State	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Mar 2021

Keywords

NB-IoT
LTE Cat-M1
Sigfox
LoRa
IoT

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