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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation Scheme Based on Reinforcement Learning in Distributed LoRa Networks.

Ryota Ariyoshi, Aohan Li, Mikio Hasegawa, Tomoaki Ohtsuki

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Ryota AriyoshiGraduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan.
Aohan LiGraduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0618-4894
Mikio HasegawaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo 125-8585, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5638-8022
Tomoaki OhtsukiDepartment of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-3961-1426

Funding

JSPS JP22K14263JSPS P22H01493
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rapid growth of Long Range (LoRa) devices has led to network congestion, reducing spectrum and energy efficiency. To address this problem, we propose an energy-efficient reinforcement learning method for distributed LoRa networks, enabling each device to independently select appropriate transmission parameters, i.e., channel, transmission power (TP), and bandwidth (BW) based on acknowledgment (ACK) feedback and energy consumption. Our method employs the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB)1-tuned algorithm and incorporates energy metrics into the reward function, achieving lower power consumption and high transmission success rates. Designed to be lightweight for resource-constrained IoT devices, it was implemented on real LoRa hardware and tested in dense network scenarios. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms fixed allocation, adaptive data rate low-complexity (ADR-Lite), and ϵ-greedy methods in both transmission success rate and energy efficiency.

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distributed resource allocationenergy efficiencyIoTLoRareinforcement learning

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PMID40871858
PMCPMC12390134

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