Gateway Placement in LoRaWAN Enabled Sensor Networks

Abstract

: This paper proposes two different approaches to be applied in gateway placement problem in LoRaWAN sensor networks. The first approach is based on finding the minimal set to contain all the coverage intersections of the sensors and the second approach is based on optimization via integer programming over the distance between the gateways and sensors. Our results show that using automated gateway placement provides significantly less number of gateways to be used.