Coverage and Capacity Analysis of Sigfox, LoRa, GPRS, and NB-IoT

Benny Vejlgaard; Mads Lauridsen; Huan Cong Nguyen; István Kovács; Preben Elgaard Mogensen; Mads Sørensen

doi:10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108666

Coverage and Capacity Analysis of Sigfox, LoRa, GPRS, and NB-IoT

Benny Vejlgaard, Mads Lauridsen, Huan Cong Nguyen, István Kovács, Preben Elgaard Mogensen, Mads Sørensen

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Abstract

In this paper the coverage and capacity of SigFox, LoRa, GPRS, and NB-IoT is compared using a real site deployment covering 8000 km2 in Northern Denmark. Using the existing Telenor cellular site grid it is shown that the four technologies have more than 99 % outdoor coverage, while GPRS is challenged for indoor coverage. Furthermore, the study analyzes the capacity of the four technologies assuming a traffic growth from 1 to 10 IoT device per user. The conclusion is that the 95 %-tile uplink failure rate for outdoor users is below 5 % for all technologies. For indoor users only NB-IoT provides uplink and downlink connectivity with less than 5 % failure rate, while SigFox is able to provide an unacknowledged uplink data service with about 12 % failure rate. Both GPRS and LoRa struggle to provide sufficient indoor coverage and capacity.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring)
Antal sider	5
Forlag	IEEE
Publikationsdato	jun. 2017
ISBN (Elektronisk)	978-1-5090-5932-4
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108666
Status	Udgivet - jun. 2017
Begivenhed	IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2017 - Sydney, Australien Varighed: 4 jun. 2017 → 7 jun. 2017 http://ieeevtc.org/vtc2017spring/

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Konference	IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2017
Land/Område	Australien
By	Sydney
Periode	04/06/2017 → 07/06/2017
Internetadresse	http://ieeevtc.org/vtc2017spring/

Navn	I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings
ISSN	1550-2252

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Vejlgaard, B, Lauridsen, M, Nguyen, HC, Kovács, I, Mogensen, PE & Sørensen, M 2017, Coverage and Capacity Analysis of Sigfox, LoRa, GPRS, and NB-IoT. i 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring). IEEE, I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings, IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2017, Sydney, Australien, 04/06/2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108666

Coverage and Capacity Analysis of Sigfox, LoRa, GPRS, and NB-IoT. / Vejlgaard, Benny; Lauridsen, Mads; Nguyen, Huan Cong et al.
2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring). IEEE, 2017. (I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings).

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