Evaluating Duty-Cycle Enforcement in Distance-Vector LoRa Mesh Networks: A Cross-Layer ns-3 Study
Multi-hop LoRa (LoRa mesh) can extend coverage and resilience beyond LoRaWAN star topologies, but its end-to-end performance degrades when duty-cycle (DC) constraints are enforced and traffic is no longer sporadic. However, many LoRa mesh evaluations either do not enforce DC explicitly or do not record metrics that con...