Analysis on LoRa RSSI in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Area for Handover Signal Strength-Based Algorithm.

Abstract

Abstract This paper focus on analysis on Long Range (LoRa) handover session was conducted in urban, suburban, and rural area in Perlis state, Malaysia. The experiment will consists of observation and analyzed on three area using LoRa communication modules. These three areas were collected on its Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) to know the signal strength over the distance from base station and the differences physical object appear in Line of Sight (LoS) during the transmitting and receiving its signal from LoRa Transmitter to LoRa Receiver. The result at three area of different location have shown various pattern in term of RSSI where the each of the location give the distance that signal of LoRa could reach whilst the motion of vehicle is constant. From this experiment, certain level of RSSI value will be chosen to set as minimum boundary switcher for handover process state indicator and be used handover process algorithm in network switcher.