Internet of Things (IoT). The MAC layer protocol of LoRa is LoRaWAN. It still needs some
improvements regarding the measured Quality of Service (QoS) ie rejected packet rate and
the Packet Error Rate (PER). In this paper, we propose a LoRa+ as a new mechanism to
overcome the shortcomings of LoRaWAN. Currently, at the end of each uplink operation, a
standard LoRaWAN-based end device opens two time slots (RX1 and RX2) to receive from …