@article{kaksw-rliia-24,
  author = {Peter Kietzmann and Jose Alamos and Dirk Kutscher and Thomas C. Schmidt and Matthias W{\"a}hlisch},
  title = {{Rethinking LoRa for the IoT: An Information-centric Approach}},
  journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine (COMMAG)},
  year = {2024},
  month = {January},
  volume = {62},
  number = {1},
  pages = {34--39},
  publisher = {IEEE Press},
  address = {Piscataway, NJ, USA},
  abstract = {In this paper, we present LoRa-ICN, a new long-range communication system that provides a versatile data-oriented integration of battery-driven LoRa nodes into the Internet of Things (IoT). LoRa-ICN builds on two paradigms: Information-centric Networking (ICN), which enables more direct, data-oriented communication between Internet systems and the low-power wireless domain, and 802.15.4~DSME, which is an IoT MAC layer that facilitates reliable LoRa transmissions. While the combination of LoRa and DSME is generally better suited for bi-directional end-to-end communication, it still incurs considerable long and variable transmission latencies, and challenges the network layer transition between the power-constrained wireless domain and the Internet. Our design and implementation on actual off-the-shelf IoT hardware includes extensions to ICN that enable delay-tolerant data retrieval between LoRa nodes and an application on the Internet. An experimental comparison between default ICN mechanisms and our extensions shows that LoRa-ICN is able to achieve a high data delivery rate, while dealing with the higher latencies explicitly, thus providing a viable option for re-imaginig LoRa networks with a data-oriented, Internet-friendly approach.},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MCOM.001.2300379},
  theme = {iot|icn},
}