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The scalability and communication performance of the LoRa systems are highly dependent on the spreading factor (SF) and channel allocations. In particular, it is important to set the SF appropriately according to the distance between the LoRa device and the gateway since the signal reception sensitivity and bit rate depend on the used SF, which are in a trade-off relationship. In addition, considering the surge in the number of LoRa devices recently, the scalability of LoRa systems is also greatly affected by the channels that the LoRa devices use for communications. It was demonstrated that the lightweight decentralized learning-based joint channel and SF-selection methods can make appropriate decisions with low computational complexity and power consumption in our previous study. However, the effect of the location situation of the LoRa devices on the communication performance in a practical larger-scale LoRa system has not been studied. Hence, to clarify the effect of the location situation of the LoRa devices on the communication performance in LoRa systems, in this paper, we implemented and evaluated the learning-based joint channel and SF-selection methods in a practical LoRa system. In the learning-based methods, the channel and SF are decided only based on the ACKnowledge information. The learning methods evaluated in this paper were the Tug of War dynamics, Upper Confidence Bound 1, and \u03f5-greedy algorithms. Moreover, to consider the relevance of the channel and SF, we propose a combinational multi-armed bandit-based joint channel and SF-selection method. Compared with the independent methods, the combinations of the channel and SF are set as arms. Conversely, the SF and channel are set as independent arms in the independent methods that are evaluated in our previous work. From the experimental results, we can see the following points. First, the combinatorial methods can achieve a higher frame success rate and fairness than the independent methods. In addition, the FSR can be improved by joint channel and SF selection compared to SF selection only. 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