Paper Info
Title
How Robust Is A Lora Communication Against Impulsive Noise?
Abstract
In the last decade Internet of Things (IoT) grew up in an exponential behavior with applications requiring long range and low power wireless transmissions. Factory of the Future (FoF), also called Industry 4.0, aims to use IoT technologies to enhance productivity, therefore adding high reliability constraints. Several IoT standards were proposed and LoRa has emerged as a high potential candidate for a variety of applications. LoRa modulation is based on a chirp spread-spectrum technique and offers efficient transmission up to 50 kbps over several kilometers. The performance of LoRa in terms of symbol or bit error probability has been theoretically analyzed in few recent papers for a Gaussian channel. However, the industrial environment is often corrupted with impulsive non Gaussian noise generated by high-power equipment. In this paper, the impact of impulsive noise, modeled by the Middleton Class-A noise, is introduced and the robustness of a LoRa communication is studied. Compared to the Gaussian case, simulations show that impulsive noise may severely degrade system performance. This Signal-to-Noise Ratio loss can reach up to 10 dB, but increasing the spreading factor can reduce the noise impact.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/PIMRC48278.2020.9217348
2020 IEEE 31ST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON PERSONAL, INDOOR AND MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS (IEEE PIMRC)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
IIoT, LoRa performance, Symbol error rate, impulsive noise, Middleton Class A
Conference
2166-9570
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jules Courjault100.68
Baptiste Vrigneau2487.97
Olivier Berder325327.24
Manav R. Bhatnagar453953.01