Improvement of TCP Performance based on Characteristics of Private LoRa Interface.

Low-power wide-area (LPWA) is a major communication technology used in the Internet of Things (IoT). However, since LPWA does not conform to the TCP/IP protocol stack and employs its own unique protocol, sensors equipped with LPWA I/F face difficulty when connecting directly to the Internet. In a previous study, to extend general TCP/IP communication on LPWA networks, we constructed a TCP/IP network over Private LoRa, but it was found that TCP communication performance using LoRa devices was significantly degraded due to the characteristics of LPWA such as the low transmission rate. In the present study, to improve the performance of TCP communication using the Private LoRa interface, we propose a transmission control method that avoids collisions by modifying the advertised window size on IP2LoRa and demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method using TCP flow analysis.