Support LoRaWAN OTAA and ABP Join best practices

[elsalahy]

Summary:

Support LoRaWAN OTAA and ABP Join best practices. See article for more information.

CC: @htdvisser

Why do we need this?

To allow for scalable deployments.

What is already there? What do you see now?

Demo applications basic_lorawan and freertos_lorawan that doesn't follow the best practices.

What is missing? What do you want to see?

Demo applications following best practices.

How do you propose to implement this?

• Collect all practical best practices under the current umbrella issue
• Modify the LoRaWAN basic apps to follow the best practices.

Environment:

Baremetal and FreeRTOS.

Acceptance Criteria:

• Reference apps maintain their low power performance.

What can you do yourself and what do you need help with?

All

[htdvisser]

Related:

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/does-a-node-ever-need-to-rejoin-after-otaa/2442/10?u=htdvisser https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/forum/t/does-a-node-ever-need-to-rejoin-after-otaa/2442/12?u=htdvisser

[elsalahy]

@marnix, can you please break down this issue into smaller manageable issues so that we can start implementing the best practices

[marnix]

That comment from @elsalahy is presumably not for me but for @marnixcro. :-)

[elsalahy]

Indeed @marnix, it was intended for @marnixcro 😅