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On the Advantage of Coherent LoRa Detection in the Presence of Interference

Afisiadis, Orion  
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Li, Sitian  
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Tapparel, Joachim  
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July 15, 2021
Ieee Internet Of Things Journal

It has been shown that the coherent detection of long range (LoRa) signals only provides marginal gains of around 0.7 dB on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. However, ALOHA-based massive Internet-of-Things systems, including LoRa, often operate in the interference-limited regime. Therefore, in this work, we examine the performance of the LoRa modulation with coherent detection in the presence of interference from another LoRa user with the same spreading factor. We derive rigorous symbol- and frame error rate (FER) expressions as well as bounds and approximations for evaluating the error rates. The error rates predicted by these approximations are compared against error rates found by Monte Carlo simulations and shown to be very accurate. We also compare the performance of LoRa with coherent and noncoherent receivers and we show that the coherent detection of LoRa is significantly more beneficial in interference scenarios than in the presence of only AWGN. For example, we show that coherent detection leads to a 2.5-dB gain over the standard noncoherent detection for a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of 3 dB and up to a 10-dB gain for an SIR of 0 dB. Moreover, we show that with coherent detection it is easier to obtain useful and relevant FER values even for negative SIR values.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/JIOT.2021.3058792
Web of Science ID

WOS:000670585100044

Author(s)
Afisiadis, Orion  
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Li, Sitian  
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Tapparel, Joachim  
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Burg, Andreas  
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Balatsoukas-Stimming, Alexios  
Date Issued

2021-07-15

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Published in
Ieee Internet Of Things Journal
Volume

8

Issue

14

Start page

11581

End page

11593

Subjects

Computer Science, Information Systems

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Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Telecommunications

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Computer Science

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Engineering

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interference

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error analysis

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receivers

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coherence

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biological system modeling

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internet of things

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gain

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chirp modulation

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coherent detection

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error rate analysis

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internet of things (iot)

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long range (lora)

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spread spectrum communication

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modulation

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approximation

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performance

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networks

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receiver

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July 31, 2021
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