Comparison of NB-IOT, Lora, and Sigfox IOT Protocols in a Wireless Sensor Network

Raed Daraghma; Yousef Daraghmi; Eman Daraghmi; Hacene Fouchal; Marwan Ayaida

doi:10.15866/irecap.v13i2.22735

Comparison of NB-IOT, Lora, and Sigfox IOT Protocols in a Wireless Sensor Network

Raed Daraghma^(1*), Yousef Daraghmi⁽²⁾, Eman Daraghmi⁽³⁾, Hacene Fouchal⁽⁴⁾, Marwan Ayaida⁽⁵⁾

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15866/irecap.v13i2.22735

Abstract

The development histories of NB-IOT, Lora WAN, and Sigfox account for many of their distinctions. While NB-IOT is an open, worldwide, LTE-based 5G industry standard, Lora WAN and Sigfox are proprietary technologies created by different firms. As a result, it has the support of all the major telecommunications companies, hardware manufacturers, and network vendors. In contrast to Lora WAN and Sigfox, NB-IOT is always managed by wireless network operators and it operates on permitted LTE frequency bands. The user should select one of three deployment options for Lora WAN. Through MATLAB simulations, it is demonstrated that the Lora WAN protocol has increased energy efficiency and it is useful for extending the life of networks, approximately three times more than NB-IOT and ten times more than Sigfox protocol. The Lora WAN is shown to have a stability period that is 8.1 better than Sigfox and 3.1 better than NB-IOT through results. The Lora WAN has a higher throughput (which is determined by the amount of packets received at the base station) than NB-IOT and Sigfox.
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Keywords

Lora WAN; Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IOT); SigFox; Throughput; and Network Lifetime

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