Comprehensive Throughput Analysis of Unslotted ALOHA for Low-Power Wide-Area Networks

Jun Bae Seo, Yangqian Hu, Sangheon Pack, Hu Jin

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    Abstract

    Unslotted ALOHA has been often employed by several low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) for Internet of Things (IoT) as a random access (RA) protocol. This work analyzes the performance of unslotted ALOHA systems in terms of throughput and RA delay, and investigates their optimization. Our analysis consists of: 1) two-heterogeneous user case, whose backoff rate and packet length are different; 2) N -homogeneous user case, whose backoff rate and packet length are identical; and 3) homogeneous users of infinite population model. In the two-user case, we investigate the throughput region of unslotted ALOHA by using a multiobjective optimization problem (MOOP) and derive the Laplace Stieltjes transform (LST) of the probability density function (PDF) of RA delay. For N -homogeneous user case, we show how the throughput behaves according to the population size, packet length, and backoff rate. Our work may provide a comprehensive analytical framework for unslotted ALOHA systems.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)15800-15813
    Number of pages14
    JournalIEEE Internet of Things Journal
    Volume9
    Issue number17
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2022 Sept 1

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    This work was supported in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Korea Government (MSIT) under Grant NRF-2021R1F1A1063057; in part by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), South Korea, under the Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) Support Program under Grant IITP-2021-2017-0- 01633 Supervised by the Institute for Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP); and in part by the "5G-Based IoT Core Technology Development Project" Grant funded by the Korea Government (MSIT, Core Technologies for Enhancing Wireless Connectivity of Unlicensed Band Massive IoT in 5G+ Smart City Environment) under Grant 2020-0-00167.

    Publisher Copyright:
    © 2022 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • Access delay
    • heterogeneous users
    • pure ALOHA
    • renewal theorem throughput
    • unslotted ALOHA

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Signal Processing
    • Information Systems
    • Hardware and Architecture
    • Computer Science Applications
    • Computer Networks and Communications

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