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LoRaWAN 1.0.3 Specification ©2018 LoRa™ Alliance Page 52 of 72 The authors reserve the right to change specifications without notice. Channel frequency ok The device cannot receive on this frequency This frequency can be used by the end-device 1381 1382 If either of those 2 bits equals 0, the command did not succeed and the ping-slot parameters 1383 have not been modified. 1384 1385 14.4 BeaconTimingReq & BeaconTimingAns 1386 These MAC commands are deprecated in the LoRaWAN1.0.3 version. The device may use 1387 DeviceTimeReq&Ans commands as a substitute. 1388 1389

• Cover
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 LoRaWAN Classes
• 1.2 Conventions
• 2 Introduction on LoRaWAN options
• 2.1 LoRaWAN Classes
• 2.2 Specification scope
• Class A – All end-devices
• 3 Physical Message Formats
• 3.1 Uplink Messages
• 3.2 Downlink Messages
• 3.3 Receive Windows
• 3.3.1 First receive window channel, data rate, and start
• 3.3.2 Second receive window channel, data rate, and start
• 3.3.3 Receive window duration
• 3.3.4 Receiver activity during the receive windows
• 3.3.5 Network sending a message to an end-device
• 3.3.6 Important notice on receive windows
• 3.3.7 Receiving or transmitting other protocols
• 4 MAC Message Formats
• 4.1 MAC Layer (PHYPayload)
• 4.2 MAC Header (MHDR field)
• 4.2.1 Message type (MType bit field)
• 4.2.1.1 Join-request and join-accept messages
• 4.2.1.2 Data messages
• 4.2.2 Major version of data message (Major bit field)
• 4.3 MAC Payload of Data Messages (MACPayload)
• 4.3.1 Frame header (FHDR)
• 4.3.1.1 Adaptive data rate control in frame header (ADR, ADRACKReq in FCtrl)
• 4.3.1.2 Message acknowledge bit and acknowledgement procedure (ACK in FCtrl)
• 4.3.1.3 Retransmission procedure
• 4.3.1.4 Frame pending bit (FPending in FCtrl, downlink only)
• 4.3.1.5 Frame counter (FCnt)
• 4.3.1.6 Frame options (FOptsLen in FCtrl, FOpts)
• 4.3.2 Port field (FPort)
• 4.3.3 MAC Frame Payload Encryption (FRMPayload)
• 4.4 Message Integrity Code (MIC)
• 5 MAC Commands
• 5.1 Link Check commands (LinkCheckReq, LinkCheckAns)
• 5.2 Link ADR commands (LinkADRReq, LinkADRAns)
• 5.3 End-Device Transmit Duty Cycle (DutyCycleReq, DutyCycleAns)
• 5.4 Receive Windows Parameters (RXParamSetupReq, RXParamSetupAns)
• 5.5 End-Device Status (DevStatusReq, DevStatusAns)
• 5.6 Creation / Modification of a Channel (NewChannelReq, NewChannelAns, DlChannelReq, DlChannelAns)
• 5.7 Setting delay between TX and RX (RXTimingSetupReq, RXTimingSetupAns)
• 5.8 End-device transmission parameters (TxParamSetupReq, TxParamSetupAns)
• 5.9 DeviceTime commands (DeviceTimeReq, DeviceTimeAns)
• 6 End-Device Activation
• 6.1 Data Stored in the End-device after Activation
• 6.1.1 End-device address (DevAddr)
• 6.1.2 Application identifier (AppEUI)
• 6.1.3 Network session key (NwkSKey)
• 6.1.4 Application session key (AppSKey)
• 6.2 Over-the-Air Activation
• 6.2.1 End-device identifier (DevEUI)
• 6.2.2 Application key (AppKey)
• 6.2.3 Join procedure
• 6.2.4 Join-request message
• 6.2.5 Join-accept message
• 6.3 Activation by Personalization
• 7 Retransmissions back-off
• Class B – Beacon
• 8 Introduction to Class B
• 9 Principle of synchronous network initiated downlink (Class-B option)
• 10 Uplink frame in Class B mode
• 11 Downlink Ping frame format (Class B option)
• 11.1 Physical frame format
• 11.2 Unicast & Multicast MAC messages
• 11.2.1 Unicast MAC message format
• 11.2.2 Multicast MAC message format
• 12 Beacon acquisition and tracking
• 12.1 Minimal beacon-less operation time
• 12.2 Extension of beacon-less operation upon reception
• 12.3 Minimizing timing drift
• 13 Class B Downlink slot timing
• 13.1 Definitions
• 13.2 Slot randomization
• 14 Class B MAC commands
• 14.1 PingSlotInfoReq
• 14.2 BeaconFreqReq
• 14.3 PingSlotChannelReq
• 14.4 BeaconTimingReq & BeaconTimingAns
• 15 Beaconing (Class B option)
• 15.1 Beacon physical layer
• 15.2 Beacon frame content
• 15.3 Beacon GwSpecific field format
• 15.3.1 Gateway GPS coordinate:InfoDesc = 0, 1 or 2
• 15.3.2 NetID+GatewayID
• 15.4 Beaconing precise timing
• 15.5 Network downlink route update requirements
• 16 Class B unicast & multicast downlink channel frequencies
• 16.1 Single channel beacon transmission
• 16.2 Frequency-hopping beacon transmission
• Class C – Continuously listening
• 17 Class C: Continuously listening end-device
• 17.1 Second receive window duration for Class C
• 17.2 Class C Multicast downlinks
• Support information
• 18 Examples and Application Information
• 18.1 Uplink Timing Diagram for Confirmed Data Messages
• 18.2 Downlink Diagram for Confirmed Data Messages
• 18.3 Downlink Timing for Frame-Pending Messages
• 18.4 Data-Rate Adaptation during Message Retransmissions
• 19 Recommendation on contract to be provided to the network server by the end-device provider at the time of provisioning
• 20 Recommendation on finding the locally used channels
• 21 Revisions
• 21.1 Revision 1.0
• 21.2 Revision 1.0.1
• 21.3 Revision 1.0.2
• 21.4 Revision 1.0.3
• 22 Glossary
• 23 Bibliography
• 23.1 References
• 24 NOTICE OF USE AND DISCLOSURE