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Performance Evaluation of LoRa Technology for Rural Connectivity: An Experimental Analysis in Nepal

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Pith's one-line read Field measurements over a clear 5 km hilltop link in Kavrepalanchowk, Nepal, show that LoRa's best configuration for hilly rural low-data-rate links is 62.5 kHz bandwidth, spreading factor 8, and coding rate 4/8.

desk verdict Useful field dataset from hilly Nepal, but the headline 'optimum' isn't supported by the reported measurements. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.04563 v1 pith:GFSERMXE submitted 2024-12-05 cs.NI

Atit Pokharel , Pratik Sapkota , Dilip Sapkota , Shashank Dahal , Sulav Karki , Ram Kaji Budhathoki This is my paper · ORCID
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper tries to establish which LoRa radio settings give the most dependable low-data-rate link in Nepal's hilly rural terrain. The authors built two low-cost sensor nodes and a gateway with SX1278 LoRa transceivers, measured RSSI, SNR, packet loss, and path loss over a clear 5 km hilltop link in Kavrepalanchowk, and swept bandwidth, spreading factor, and coding rate. They conclude that 62.5 kHz bandwidth, spreading factor 8, and coding rate 4/8 offer the best balance for long-range telemetry. If this holds, rural Internet-of-Things deployments in similar terrain have a concrete starting configuration and a demonstrated path to cloud-connected multi-node monitoring.

What carries the argument

The measuring machinery is a parameter sweep over bandwidth (10.4 to 500 kHz), spreading factor (7 to 12), and coding rate (4/8 to 7/8), with RSSI and SNR read from the SX1278 chip's packet registers and packet loss counted by comparing sent and received packets. The path-loss comparison uses the effective signal power $\mathrm{ESP} = \mathrm{RSSI} + \mathrm{SNR} - 10\log_{10}(1 + 10^{0.1\,\mathrm{SNR}})$ and compares the resulting loss with the Friis free-space loss to isolate environmental effects. The selection rule is to keep packet loss at zero, prefer higher SNR, and preserve acceptable RSSI, which leads the paper to SF 8 with 62.5 kHz bandwidth and the lowest tested coding rate.

What would settle it

Repeat the parameter sweep on a non-line-of-sight link between two slopes in the same district during monsoon fog, and compare spreading factor 10 or 12 at 125 kHz with spreading factor 8 at 62.5 kHz on packet loss and SNR; if the higher spreading factors win, the claimed optimum is a property of this one clear link rather than of hilly rural Nepal.

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Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's central claim is that the LoRa physical-layer configuration matters measurably for link quality, and that for a specific hilly, mountainous rural setting the optimum is bandwidth 62.5 kHz, spreading factor 8, and coding rate 4/8. The measurements show RSSI falling sharply once the spreading factor rises above 8, SNR highest at low bandwidth with SF 8, zero packet loss for every tested spreading factor from 8 upward, and packet loss up to 54 percent at SF 7 on the narrowest bandwidths. Path-loss analysis shows the gap between actual loss and free-space loss grows with spreading factor, while wider bandwidths keep the loss closer to the ideal. The recommended configuration is presented as a trade-off: it sacrifices some data rate to keep signal clarity and reliability over long distances, and the authors note that data rate, latency, and bit-error-rate requirements may shift the choice.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that a single clear line-of-sight link between two fixed hilltops, tested in one moderate-weather window, represents hilly and mountainous rural Nepal generally.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Rural IoT projects in similar hilly terrain can start from 62.5 kHz bandwidth, spreading factor 8, and coding rate 4/8 instead of running a full parameter sweep.
  • Because every spreading factor from 8 upward produced zero packet loss on the 5 km link, reliability does not force the maximum spreading factor; data-rate and power budgets can decide.
  • A coding rate of 4/8 gives measurably better SNR than the higher rates, so the extra redundancy is worth its throughput cost on noisy rural links.
  • A TDMA schedule with per-node sync words lets several low-cost LoRa nodes share one channel, and the gateway can push parsed data to a cloud platform for remote monitoring.
  • The measured path-loss gap grows with spreading factor, so raising the spreading factor to extend range can reduce signal margin on links that already reach the destination.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The near-universal zero packet loss above spreading factor 7 suggests the test link had a large link margin; deployments at shorter range could trade reliability for higher data rate by dropping to spreading factor 7 with wider bandwidth.
  • Because temperature and humidity shift absolute signal strength, repeating the sweep in monsoon fog could change RSSI and SNR levels even if it preserves the ranking; this paper only sampled one weather window.
  • The gap between measured path loss and free-space loss could be converted into a local terrain correction factor for hilly Nepal by repeating the same sweep on several hilltop links with different lengths and orientations.
  • The demonstration used two ultrasonic sensor nodes, so the TDMA and cloud results should be read as a feasibility check; scaling to many nodes would stress synchronization and time-slot allocation beyond what was tested.
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Referee Report

4 major / 7 minor

Summary. This paper reports an outdoor experimental evaluation of LoRa (SX1278, 433 MHz) over a roughly 5 km clear-line-of-sight link in the hilly Kavrepalanchowk district of Nepal. The authors vary bandwidth, spreading factor, and coding rate, and record RSSI, SNR, and packet loss, along with a derived path-loss comparison. They also demonstrate a two-node TDMA scheme with ThingSpeak cloud integration. Based on the measurements, the paper recommends bandwidth 62.5 kHz, spreading factor 8, and coding rate 4/8 as the optimal configuration for long-range low-data-rate rural connectivity.

Significance. If the recommended configuration were robustly established, the paper would provide a concrete, low-cost deployment guideline for LoRa links in a specific type of hilly terrain, together with a reproducible public dataset (Zenodo/GitHub) and a working IoT integration demo. The transparency of sharing raw data and code is a genuine strength, as is the real field deployment rather than a simulation. However, the central recommendation is currently underdetermined by the reported statistics, and the coding-rate experiment appears to use values outside the valid LoRa parameter set. With appropriate revisions that either add statistical support or substantially narrow the claims, the paper could serve as a useful empirical data point for rural LoRa deployment.

major comments (4)
  1. [4.5, Tables 2-4] The selection of 62.5 kHz over 125 kHz and 250 kHz at SF=8 is not supported by the reported data. For SF=8, the RSSI values are -91.8, -91.83, and -91.0 dBm for 62.5, 125, and 250 kHz, respectively, and the SNR values are 10.2, 10.18, and 10.04 dB. These differences are far smaller than what 5-7 averaged measurements without error bars or significance tests can resolve, and packet loss is 0% for all three configurations. The paper's own text in Section 4.5 acknowledges that all three bandwidths are viable, so the unique recommendation of 62.5 kHz needs either a statistical justification, an explicit decision criterion based on application constraints, or a revised conclusion that presents a small set of equivalent choices instead of a single optimum.
  2. [Table 1 and Section 4.6] The coding rates listed as 4/8, 5/8, 6/8, and 7/8 are not valid LoRa coding rates for the SX1278. The SX1276/77/78/79 datasheet defines the LoRa coding rate denominator as 4 to 8 with the numerator fixed at 4, yielding 4/5, 4/6, 4/7, and 4/8. As a result, the coding-rate experiment in Section 4.6 and the resulting recommendation of CR=4/8 are based on configurations that the hardware does not actually implement as LoRa coding rates. This portion of the experiment and the related conclusion must be redone with valid rates or removed from the recommendation.
  3. [3.5 and 4.4] The experiment covers a single clear-line-of-sight link between two fixed hilltop nodes under one weather window (23.5°C, 86% humidity). The abstract and conclusion extend the result to 'hilly and mountainous terrain' generally. Since the dominant challenges in such terrain are typically shadowing and non-line-of-sight propagation, a single LOS link cannot support a terrain-class recommendation. The paper should either restrict its claim to the tested LOS conditions or supplement the study with non-LOS or variable-weather measurements; otherwise the generalized framing in the abstract and conclusion is not empirically justified.
  4. [4.3] The packet-loss metric cannot discriminate among the recommended candidates because every configuration with SF≥8 reports 0% packet loss, and even SF=7 shows 0% loss at 250 and 500 kHz. This means the 'optimal' choice rests entirely on RSSI and SNR differences that, as noted above, are within measurement noise. The paper should explicitly state this limitation and avoid presenting packet loss as a differentiating factor in the optimal-configuration decision.
minor comments (7)
  1. [4.3] The packet loss table is incorrectly numbered as 'Table 1', which duplicates the parameter table in Section 3.3; it should be Table 4.
  2. [4.1] The interpolation method is called 'PHCIP' in the text but should be 'PCHIP' (Piecewise Cubic Hermite Interpolating Polynomial); correct this typo.
  3. [4.2] Section 4.2 states that the best SNR is obtained at SF=8 and BW=10.4 kHz, while Section 4.5 recommends BW=62.5 kHz; reconcile these two statements or explain why the SNR-optimal bandwidth was not chosen.
  4. [Section 3.4.4, Eq. (5)] The definition of ESP = RSSI + SNR - 10 log10(1 + 10^{0.1 SNR}) is nonstandard and reduces approximately to RSSI for large SNR; the paper should justify this formula and clarify how it relates to the SX1278's built-in RSSI and SNR registers.
  5. [Section 3.3, Table 1] The spreading factor column formats 7, 8, 9, ... as 27, 28, 29, ... in a way that could be read as exponents; use superscript notation (2^7, 2^8, ...) to avoid confusion.
  6. [Abstract and Section 3.6] The abstract refers to a 'LoRa mesh network', but the experiment is a point-to-point link with two nodes sharing a channel via TDMA; either implement an actual mesh or use terminology such as 'multi-node LoRa network'.
  7. [4.6] The text says 'Table 4 illustrates the effect of the coding rate', but the referenced table is Table 6; update the cross-reference.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 0.0 of 10

No significant circularity: the paper is an empirical measurement study whose recommended LoRa configuration is a direct selection from reported field measurements, not a derived prediction forced by inputs.

full rationale

The paper's central claim—that BW=62.5 kHz, SF=8, and CR=4/8 is optimal for the tested Kavrepalanchowk link—is a qualitative selection among measured configurations, not a prediction derived from a fitted model. RSSI and SNR are read directly from SX1278 registers, packet loss is counted from transmitted/received packet counters, and the path-loss difference is computed from measured RSSI/SNR plus assumed antenna and transmitter gains using Eqs. (5)–(7). None of these equations encode the recommended configuration or are defined in terms of the conclusion. No parameter is fitted to a subset of data and then used to predict a closely related quantity; no uniqueness theorem or author-imported model is invoked to force the choice; and the cited prior works serve only as background and comparison. Concerns that the 62.5 kHz versus 125 kHz difference at SF=8 is within measurement noise (0.02 dB in SNR and 0.03 dB in RSSI) and that coding rates 5/8–7/8 are not valid SX1278 rates are correctness or validity risks, not circular reasoning. For those reasons, no circular step can be exhibited with a supporting quote, and the appropriate circularity score is 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No free parameters are fit to data, but the path loss analysis depends on an unmeasured theoretical antenna gain, the generalization depends on a single LOS link being representative, and the coding rate experiment relies on a likely incorrect register mapping. These are domain assumptions rather than fitted values.

assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Quarter-wave monopole antennas achieve the theoretical 5.15 dBi gain used in path loss calculations.
    Equation (6) uses Gt and Gr of 5.15 dBi each; Section 4.4 states antenna performance 'was not directly measured due to resource constraints'.
  • standard math The Friis free-space path loss formula is an appropriate ideal baseline for the 433 MHz link.
    Equation (7) uses the standard Friis formula; the paper compares actual path loss to this baseline.
  • domain assumption A single clear-line-of-sight hilltop link is representative of general hilly rural terrain in Nepal.
    All measurements were taken on one 5 km LOS path under one weather condition (Section 3.5), but conclusions are generalized to the terrain class.
  • domain assumption The LoRa parameter settings, including coding rates 4/8 to 7/8, were correctly applied to the SX1278 registers.
    Table 6 lists coding rates that are not standard for SX1278 (which supports 4/5 to 4/8); if the mapping is wrong, the coding rate results are invalid.
  • domain assumption Averaging 5 to 7 measurements per configuration is sufficient to rank configurations reliably.
    All tables use means from 5 to 7 trials with no error bars, yet the paper draws a single optimal configuration from these means.

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LoRa technology has garnered significant interest in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) field in recent years due to its ability to operate at low power while maintaining effective communication. Despite gaining attention, LoRa technology faces challenges in effectively facilitating communication in rural settings due to specific transmission and reception conditions. This research paper provides an in-depth analysis of using a LoRa mesh network that accesses the performance of different LoRa configurations by varying parameters like Bandwidth (BW), Spreading Factor (SF), and Coding Rate (CR). Metrics, like the Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI), Signal-Noise Ratio (SNR), and packet loss, are analyzed to check the optimal configurations for LoRa nodes, specifically in the context of rural areas of Nepal. Furthermore, the varying propagation loss concerning the change in physical layer parameters is also discussed. The experimental setup utilizes Arduino Uno and ESP 32 microcontroller boards with LoRa modules to build the transmitter and receiver nodes, which are paired with a self-constructed monopole antenna, showing superior gain compared to commercially available options. This paper also explores the potential of integrating the acquired data with cloud platforms such as ThingSpeak. This integration establishes a strong backbone for the Internet of Things (IoT), which can gather and analyze remote data, providing the capacity for remote access to the data. This paper finally recommends specific values for the examined parameters for the specific case of a particular type of hilly and mountainous terrain in a country like Nepal, keeping in mind the unique trade-offs each one offers, thereby enabling optimal rural wireless communication.

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Figure 5. RSSI variation for different bandwidths and spreading factors [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. SNR Variation for combinations of bandwidths and spreading factors. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Data from multiple nodes being plotted in the cloud [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_10.png] view at source ↗

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