there is no need practical need for TTS to be able to list that many
That has been fairly understood, hence, given how relevant they are for our research, came the question of whether such limitation existed, which i will be inspecting in the source code, to answer your question. That was something i wished to avoid, in hope that some expert would provide me with such information without having to scour for it myself.
you are causing more work across the network, backhaul traffic and the LNS still has to process those incoming uplinks
The work caused by our device, given it’s duty cycle, the density of gateways present in the areas is far less problematic than the one of devices regularly deployed, and so the traffic it originates.
The sole element triggering such “work across the network” is the altitude it was placed at in the testing phase. Notice that this may merely seem a deliberate attempt to produce a large number of gateways, but it is indeed also a test of the conditions of its final deployment, likely at similar altitudes.
Either we test it in such conditions, or we just trash the research.
The most we can do is to reduce the duty cycle even further to 12 hours or a day, which is the only variable we can control (besides power) to reduce the stress of the network.
You appear to have removed the user names you have quoted, which is selective and non-attributable - something that is generally frowned upon in academic research.
No user names were removed, it is likely of my mistake.
Plus, given how irrelated the matter of how frowned upon it could be, I consider such as an ad-hominem.
As for your answer, one wonders how public money is spent on such activities, and so I guess we will have to continue to wonder!
Irrelated, see the answer to the quote above.
Returning to practical matters: to answer the moral concerns (e.g what the community feels), we cannot rely on speculation. I cannot rely on “may cause mixed reactions” or “do you absolutely know?”, to understand whether to progress with this as there will always be a person concerned (case in point, this topic), but I understand your concerns, and the need to make this right.
Steps have been taken to allow us to conduct the experiments reducing to the most the stress received by TTS, but given the solicitation I received to this point by you, given contact was in the works with TTN representatives in the matter of this project, we shall address both moral concerns (community and related) and practical concerns (gateway number, the existance of plans to increase such number) directly with them.
I’m willing to discuss the subject of the research in a private message with you @decartes, given your concerns.
I’m sure you will have valuable experience and insight to share, and possibly how we could further reduce stress on the servers, if any.