IoT System Integrating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and LoRa Technology: A Performance Evaluation Study

Table 1

LoRa parameters used in simulations.

Parameter	Values
Spreading factor (SF)	Random (7, 12) uniform distribution
Transmission power (TP)	Random (2, 14 dBm) uniform distribution
Bandwidth (BW)	125 kHz
Coding rate (CR)	4/5
Time to first/next packet	Exponential (100 s)
Number of grids	5 × 5
dmax, dmin suburban	{12148.93 m, 999.71 m}