A Two-User Successive Interference Cancellation LoRa Receiver with Soft-Decoding

Mathieu Xhonneux, Joachim Tapparel, Péter Scheepers, Orion Afisiadis, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, David Bol, Jérôme Louveaux, Andreas Burg

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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 languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
EditorsMichael B. Matthews
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages948-953
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-5828-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2022
Event55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021 - Virtual, Pacific Grove, United States
Duration: 31 Oct 20213 Nov 2021
Conference number: 55

Conference

Conference55th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2021
Abbreviated titleACSSC
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPacific Grove
Period31/10/213/11/21

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