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LPWAN in the TV White Spaces: A Practical Implementation and Deployment Experiences

Mahbubur Rahman·Dali Ismail·Venkata P Modekurthy·Abusayeed Saifullah
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Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) is an enabling Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology that supports long-range, low-power, and low-cost connectivity to numerous devices. To avoid the crowd in the limited ISM band (where most LPWANs operate) and cost of licensed band, the recently proposed SNOW (Sensor Network over White Spaces) is a promising LPWAN platform that operates over the TV white spaces. As it is a very recent technology and is still in its infancy, the current SNOW implementation uses the USRP devices as LPWAN nodes, which has high costs (~$750 USD per device) and large form-factors, hindering its applicability in practical deployment. In this paper, we implement SNOW using low-cost, low form-factor, low-power, and widely available commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices to enable its practical and large-scale deployment. Our choice of the COTS device (TI CC13x0: CC1310 or CC1350) consequently brings down the cost and form-factor of a SNOW node by 25x and 10x, respectively. Such implementation of SNOW on the CC13x0 devices, however, faces a number of challenges to enable link reliability and communication range. Our implementation addresses these challenges by handling peak-to-average power ratio problem, channel state information estimation, carrier frequency offset estimation, and near-far power problem. Our deployment in the city of Detroit, Michigan demonstrates that CC13x0-based SNOW can achieve uplink and downlink throughputs of 11.2kbps and 4.8kbps per node, respectively, over a distance of 1km. Also, the overall throughput in the uplink increases linearly with the increase in the number of SNOW nodes.

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Mahbubur Rahman, Dali Ismail, Venkata P Modekurthy, Abusayeed Saifullah. 2021-01-30. LPWAN in the TV White Spaces: A Practical Implementation and Deployment Experiences. https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.00302

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