Title
LoRaBee: Cross-Technology Communication from LoRa to ZigBee via Payload Encoding
Abstract
Low-power wireless mesh networks (LPWMNs) have been widely used in wireless monitoring and control applications. Although LPWMNs work satisfactorily most of the time thanks to decades of research, they are often complex, inelastic to change, and difficult to manage once the networks are deployed. Moreover, the deliveries of control commands, especially those carrying urgent information such as emergency alarms, suffer long delay, since the messages must go through the hop-by-hop transport. Recent studies show that adding low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) radios such as LoRa onto the LPWMN devices (e.g., ZigBee) effectively overcomes the limitation. However, users have shown a marked reluctance to embrace the new heterogeneous communication approach because of the cost of hardware modification. In this paper, we introduce LoRaBee, a novel LoRa to ZigBee cross-technology communication (CTC) approach, which leverages the energy emission in the Sub-1 GHz bands as the carrier to deliver information. Although LoRa and ZigBee adopt distinct modulation techniques, LoRaBee sends information from LoRa to ZigBee by putting specific bytes in the payload of legitimate LoRa packets. The bytes are selected such that the corresponding LoRa chirps can be recognized by the ZigBee devices through sampling the received signal strength (RSS). Experimental results show that our LoRaBee provides reliable CTC communication from LoRa to ZigBee with the throughput of up to 281.61bps in the Sub-1 GHz bands.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888145
2019 IEEE 27th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cross-technology Communication,LoRa,Zig-Bee,Internet of Things
Byte,Wireless,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Throughput,Wireless mesh network,RSS,LPWAN,Payload
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1092-1648
978-1-7281-2701-9
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junyang Shi1134.94
Di Mu251.09
Mo Sha325123.52