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Proposer

Inkar Zhumay

Title

Scalability Limits of LoRaWAN under Dense Node Deployment

Goal

Description

For Aktobe Students Only. This project is to determine how many end devices a single LoRaWAN gateway can support before collisions dominate, rather than relying on vendor capacity claims. Model a deployment with configurable node count, spreading factor allocation, transmission power, duty cycle and payload size, and simulate under both uniform and clustered spatial distributions. Measure packet delivery ratio, collision rate by spreading factor, per-node energy consumption and energy per successfully delivered packet as density increases. Evaluate spreading factor allocation strategies — fixed, distance-based, and adaptive data rate — and quantify the capture effect, which meaningfully changes capacity estimates and is frequently omitted from simpler models. Identify the density at which delivery falls below a stated service threshold, and report how that threshold shifts with each configuration parameter.

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Background

Url

Difficulty Level

Moderate

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

1

Supervisor

Inkar Zhumay

Keywords

lorawan, network scalability, packet delivery ratio, low-power wide-area network, collision analysis, network simulation

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computational Sciences and Software Engineering