Abstract
LoRaWAN is a popular wireless technology that provides long-range connectivity to Internet-of-Things devices using a bit-interleaved coded modulation. To minimize their energy consumption, LoRaWAN end-nodes implement a pure ALOHA access scheme, which leads to collisions among users at the gateway and a reduced throughput in crowded networks. To improve the throughput of interference-limited LoRaWAN networks, we design in this paper a successive interference cancellation receiver that is able to decode frames from two colliding users with the same spreading factor. By performing both a soft-demodulation and soft-decoding to recover the message of each interfering user, the proposed two-user receiver explicitly leverages the coded spread spectrum modulation of LoRa. We show that the joint usage of interleaving and coding is critical to achieve a decent cancellation of the strongest user. Simulation results indicate that our receiver successfully demodulates the frames of two interfering users with a 1.5 dB difference of received powers, even at very low signal-to-noise ratios.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2021 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers |
Editors | Michael B. Matthews |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Pages | 948-953 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-6654-5828-3 |
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Publication status | Published - 4 Mar 2022 |
Event | 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021 - Virtual, Pacific Grove, United States Duration: 31 Oct 2021 → 3 Nov 2021 Conference number: 55 |
Conference
Conference | 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021 |
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Abbreviated title | ACSSC |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Pacific Grove |
Period | 31/10/21 → 3/11/21 |