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Dynamic Parameter Allocation With Reinforcement Learning for LoRaWAN
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DOI：10.1109/JIOT.2023.3239301.png)
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LoRaWAN attracted lots of attention with its capacity for large device numbers, long-range, and low-power consumption. In order to simplify the transmission procedure, a pure Aloha protocol is implemented into its MAC layer. However, as the number of connected devices to the base station increases, the devices' transmission parameters allocation becomes a vital issue related to network performance. This research contributes to the decentralized dynamic spreading factor (SF) allocation strategies during transmission by proposing a score table-based evaluation and parameters surfing (STEPS) approach. STEPS is a reinforcement learning-based method that evaluates and changes the parameters based on probability and score tables. It provides a nondeterministic parameter selection method by updating the table while transmitting. Some variants of STEPS with different algorithms are proposed. Moreover, an estimation-based initialization is proposed to improve learning performance. Simulations and statistical tests are carried out with MULANE, a lightweight LoRaWAN Simulator developed in our previous work. The results show that the estimation has a high confidence level. Compared with the baseline methods, the proposed methods reduce energy consumption by 24%-27% in different numbers of nodes. For bi-directional transmission, the proposed methods increase the 18% network throughput in a small number of nodes and 33% in a large number of nodes. Moreover, the proposed methods provide a framework of decentralized parameter allocation, which gives the extendability of this work.
Keywords:
Resource management
Internet of Things
Heuristic algorithms
Performance evaluation
Downlink
Energy consumption
Signal to noise ratio
Decentralized spreading factor (SF) allocation
energy consumption
LoRaWAN
reinforcement learning
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