Sustainable Business Model for Long-Range Wireless Wide Area Based Internet of Things Network: The Heterogeneous approach

Abstract

This research presents a heterogeneous pricing model for long-range wide area networks (LoRaWAN). Most previous pricing model by LoRaWAN operators does not take into cognizance the different latency and QoS requirement of the applications running on their network. In this work we propose a model that uses the spreading factor allocation motivated by the priority level requested for by each node during the profiling of the node on the network. This was achieved by using a novel spreading factor allocating algorithm. Our result shows that the developed spreading factor allocating algorithm was able to assign optimal transmitting parameter to each node based on their priority level. We also show that by using our model, LoRaWAN operators can make about 21.6 percent more profit. Our model also ensures a fair usage policy among all users by ensuring that the quality of service of the network is not compromised.