A Standardized Edge Computing Infrastructure of LoRaWAN Using IEEE 2668

Abstract

LoRaWAN is an overwhelmingly popular wide area networking protocol that is capable of deploying city-wide Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Increase on the deployment of LoRaWAN in the last few years has led to exponential increase on the number of LoRa sensory and actuating end devices and results in more congestion in LoRaWAN network traffic. Moreover, the evolving AI-IoT (AIoT) applications (e.g., AI-powered environment monitoring system) create needs for more computing power with low latency requirements. To mitigate the high latency issue and the shortage of computing power due to continuously demanding quality of service (QoS) requirements of IoT applications, the Edge-Cloud server structure has been explored in a thorough manner in research area in recent years. An IEEE 2668 standardized IoT infrastructure system is presented in this work focusing on analyzing the performance of applying Edge-Cloud network server structure to LoRaWAN networks and provide standardized edge computing LoRaWAN infrastructure. This work uses queuing network to quantitively analyze the performance of an edge computing infrastructure applied to LoRaWAN and uses IEEE 2668 to quantitively present the performance and applicability of the Edge-Cloud LoRaWAN infrastructure.