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FLoRaSat: Le simulateur pour la communication LoRa avec les satellites LEO

Juan A. Fraire, Mehdi Mesbah, Pablo Madoery, Oana Iova, and Fabrice Valois

Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles (CoRes), pp. 1–4, 2022

Abstract

Le nouveau paradigme de communication, Direct-to-Satellite-IoT (DtS-IoT), est une approche très prometteuse pour le transfert de données depuis/vers des appareils IoT dans des zones reculées où le déploiement d'une infrastructure terrestre n'est pas faisable. Dans ce contexte, les satellites en orbite terrestre basse (LEO) peuvent équiper des passerelles IoT comme celles de LoRa, pour faciliter la collecte de données des capteurs situés sur Terre en ligne de vue directe. Cependant, cette communication est soumise à plusieurs défis : grandes distances de transmission (500 à 2000 km), couverture sporadique et de courte durée (environ 7 minutes), liaisons inter-satellites à faible bande passante, et appareils IoT contraints en énergie. Pour permettre à la communauté de mettre en oeuvre et d'étudier des protocoles pour la communication DtS-IoT de façon réaliste, nous proposons un nouvel outil de simulation à événements discrets : FLoRaSat. Le simulateur s'appuie sur Omnet++ et implemente un scénario de communication DtS-IoT de de bout en bout comprenant 16 satellites LEO interconnectés et 1500 noeuds IoT sur Terre qui communiquent à l'aide du protocole LoRaWAN.

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BibTeX

@inproceedings{fraire2022florasat,
  author    = {Fraire, Juan A. and Mesbah, Mehdi and Madoery, Pablo and Iova, Oana and Valois, Fabrice},
  title     = {FLoRaSat: Le simulateur pour la communication LoRa avec les satellites LEO},
  booktitle = {Rencontres Francophones sur la Conception de Protocoles (CoRes)},
  pages     = {1--4},
  year      = {2022},
  url       = {https://hal.science/hal-03657890v1}
}

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