IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics | 2021
The Meta Distribution of the Signal-to-Interference Ratio for Long Range Wide Area Networks With Power Control
Abstract
To reduce energy consumption, a device in a long range wide area network (LoRaWAN) needs to adjust its transmit power according to the distance from its tagged gateway. It is important to measure the performance of the LoRaWANs uplink with power control. In this article, we focus on the analysis of the coverage probability and the meta distribution of the signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) for a LoRaWAN uplink with fractional power control (FPC). The LoRaWAN uplink is analyzed based on the Poisson point process. We present the possible reductions in transmit power of devices whilst ensuring that the received signal power is greater than the receiver sensitivity. We derive the coverage probability of a LoRaWAN uplink and show how power control influences it. Finally, utilizing the meta distribution of SIR, the fine-grained information of the LoRaWAN is revealed. The results show that the power control greatly increases the successful probability of edge-devices with little effect on the probability of inner-devices if an appropriate FPC coefficient is chosen. This is because the LoRa signal can be demodulated at a very low required SIR threshold.