A New LoRa-like Transceiver Suited for LEO Satellite Communications
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Sensors. 2022-02, vol. 22, n° 5, p. 1830
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LoRa is based on the chirp spread spectrum (CSS) modulation, which has been developed for low power and long-range wireless Internet of Things (IoT) communications. The structure of LoRa signals makes their decoding ...Leer más >
LoRa is based on the chirp spread spectrum (CSS) modulation, which has been developed for low power and long-range wireless Internet of Things (IoT) communications. The structure of LoRa signals makes their decoding performance extremely sensitive to synchronization errors. To alleviate this constraint, we propose a modification of the LoRa physical layer, which we refer to as differential CSS (DCSS), associated with an original synchronization algorithm. Based on this modification, we are able to demodulate the received signals without performing a complete frequency synchronization and by tolerating some timing synchronization errors. Hence, our receiver can handle ultra narrow band LoRa-like signals since it has no limitation on the maximum carrier frequency offset, as is actually the case in the deployed LoRa receivers. In addition, in the presence of the Doppler shift varying along the packet duration, DCSS shows better performance than CSS, which makes our proposed receiver a good candidate for communication with a low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite.< Leer menos
Palabras clave en inglés
DCSS
Doppler effects
IoT
LoRa
LPWAN
low-Earth orbit satellite
synchronization
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