Research Article

AISR: A Protocol-Closed Architecture for Interference-Aware Channel-Mask Control in Industrial LoRaWAN

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Renas Rajab Asaad Department of Information Technology, Technical College of Informatics–Akre, Akre University for Applied Sciences, Duhok, Iraq.
Madasu Hanmandlu Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Kharabela Swain * Nstitute of Applied Sciences, Mangalayatan University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.

https://doi.org/10.48314/ceti.v3i2.85

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Abstract

Industrial Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) telemetry operates under variable propagation, contention, external interference, regional spectrum rules, and limited downlink capacity. An adaptive channel policy is useful only when the network can observe alternatives, predict a benefit over the time required to deliver control, issue a legal command that the device accepts, and verify that the realized transmissions improve application outcomes after sensing and reconfiguration cost. This paper reconstructs Adaptive Interference-Aware Spectrum Reallocation (AISR) as a protocol-closed network-side controller. A gateway or dedicated monitor supplies calibrated channel observations; a causal predictor estimates packet success, energy, and deadline risk; a constrained optimizer selects device-specific legal channel masks; and a verification layer records command acceptance, actual channel use, delivery, latency, and energy. The proposed architecture introduces control age, abstention, fallback, hysteresis, and auditability as first-class design variables. It also separates the evidential roles of the available harbor RSSI/SNR localization dataset from those of a genuine intervention trial. The harbor record can characterize observed link variation, but it lacks simultaneous counterfactual channel measurements, a complete attempted-packet denominator, MAC-command traces, application delivery times, and device-current measurements. No performance improvement is therefore claimed. A staged evaluation protocol compares fixed plans, configured Adaptive Data Rate (ADR), a valid history-based policy, published allocation families, and AISR under identical traffic, sensing budgets, channel conditions, and control authority. The resulting framework makes interference-aware LoRaWAN channel management falsifiable at the level of radio observation, protocol execution, and application benefit.

Keywords

Industrial long range wide area network Channel-mask management Interference prediction Adaptive data rate Packet delivery Control age Device energy Reproducibility

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Published 2026-05-06
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Rajab Asaad, R., Hanmandlu, M., & Swain, K. (2026). AISR: A Protocol-Closed Architecture for Interference-Aware Channel-Mask Control in Industrial LoRaWAN. Computational Engineering and Technology Innovations, 3(2), 100-109. https://doi.org/10.48314/ceti.v3i2.85

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