In-phase and Quadrature Chirp Spread Spectrum for IoT Communications

This paper describes a coherent chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technique based on the Long-Range (LoRa) physical layer (PHY) framework. LoRa PHY employs CSS on top of a variant of frequency shift keying (FSK), and non-coherent detection is employed at the receiver for obtaining the transmitted data sym...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-09
Main Authors: Ivo Bizon Franco de Almeida, Chafii, Marwa, Ahmad Nimr, Fettweis, Gerhard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chirp signals
Computer simulation
Equalization
Frequency shift keying
Orthogonality
Performance evaluation
Quadratures
Spread spectrum
Spread spectrum transmission
Synchronism
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Summary:This paper describes a coherent chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technique based on the Long-Range (LoRa) physical layer (PHY) framework. LoRa PHY employs CSS on top of a variant of frequency shift keying (FSK), and non-coherent detection is employed at the receiver for obtaining the transmitted data symbols. In this paper, we propose a scheme that encodes information bits on both in-phase and quadrature components of the chirp signal, and rather employs a coherent detector at the receiver. Hence, channel equalization is required for compensating the channel induced phase rotation on the transmit signal. Moreover, a simple channel estimation technique exploits the LoRa reference sequences used for synchronization to obtain the complex channel coefficient used in the equalizer. Performance evaluation using numerical simulation shows that the proposed scheme achieves approximately 1 dB gain in terms of energy efficiency, and it doubles the spectral efficiency when compared to the conventional LoRa PHY scheme. This is due to the fact that the coherent receiver is able to exploit the orthogonality between in-phase and quadrature components of the transmit signal.
ISSN:2331-8422