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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring)
Number of pages	5
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	Jun 2017
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5090-5932-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2017.8108666
Publication status	Published - Jun 2017
Event	2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2017 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 4 Jun 2017 → 7 Jun 2017 http://ieeevtc.org/vtc2017spring/

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Conference	2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2017
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	04/06/2017 → 07/06/2017
Internet address	http://ieeevtc.org/vtc2017spring/

Series	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. in 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring). IEEE, I E E E V T S Vehicular Technology Conference. Proceedings, 2017 IEEE 85th Vehicular Technology Conference Spring 2017, Sydney, Australia, 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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