LoRa is becoming an attractive low cost and low power WAN solution for many real-world IoT applications. LoRa has been designed for static end-devices to individually use the optimal configuration through an adaptive data rate mechanism (ADR), thanks to the possibility to choose a set of LoRa physical layer transmission parameters. However a large class of IoT applications (e.g. connected farm) also includes mobile nodes with specific mobility patterns. For those applications, the current ADR control algorithm may not be efficient when the radio channel attenuation rapidly changes because of the node mobility. This paper contributes to enhance the ADR mechanism by taking into account the position of the mobile devices and their trajectories in order to have a dynamic allocation. The Enhanced-ADR (E-ADR) minimizes the transmission time and energy consumption as well as packet loss for mobile devices. The testbed-based experiments show that E-ADR improves the quality of service (QoS) of the overall networks.
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