LoRa is a long-range, low power and single-hop wireless technology that has been envisioned for Internet of Things (IoT) applications having battery driven nodes. Nevertheless, increase in number of end devices and varying throughput requirements impair the performance of pure Aloha in LoRaWAN. Considering these limitations, we evaluate the performance of slotted Aloha in LoRaWAN using extensive simulations. We employed packet error rate (PER), throughput, delay, and energy consumption of devices under different payload sizes and varying number of end devices as benchmarks. Moreover, an analytical analysis of backlogged and non-backlogged under slotted Aloha LoRaWAN environment is also performed. The simulation shows promising results in terms of PER and throughput compared to the pure Aloha. However, increase in delay has been observed during experimental evaluation.Finally, we endorse slotted aloha LoRaWAN for Green IoT Environment.
Energy efficiency and fault tolerance are two of the major concerns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for the target coverage. Design of target coverage algorithms for a large scale WSNs should incorporate both the energy efficiency and fault tolerance. In this paper, we study the coverage problem where the main objective is to construct two disjoint cover sets in randomly deployed WSNs based on relay energy (Erelay). Further, we present an approximation algorithm called Energy Efficient Maximum Disjoint Coverage (EMDC) with provable approximation ratios. We analyze the performance of EMDC theoretically and also perform extensive simulations to demonstrate the effectiveness of EMDC in terms of fault tolerance and energy efficiency.
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