Research Article
A Comparison of Physical Layers for Low Power Wide Area Networks
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_21, author={Yoann Roth and Jean-Baptiste Dor\^{e} and Laurent Ros and Vincent Berg}, title={A Comparison of Physical Layers for Low Power Wide Area Networks}, proceedings={Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. 11th International Conference, CROWNCOM 2016, Grenoble, France, May 30 - June 1, 2016, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2016}, month={6}, keywords={Low Power Wide Area LPWA Internet of Things PHY-layer FSK Turbo Code Low rate Low SNR Machine-to-Machine}, doi={10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_21} }- Yoann Roth
Jean-Baptiste Doré
Laurent Ros
Vincent Berg
Year: 2016
A Comparison of Physical Layers for Low Power Wide Area Networks
CROWNCOM
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_21
Abstract
In Low Power Wide Area networks, terminals are expected to be low cost, low power and able to achieve successful communication at long range. Communication should be low rate compared to cellular mobile networks. Most of the current technologies dedicated to Machine-to-Machine communication rely on the use of a spreading factor to achieve low levels of sensitivity. To contain power consumption at the terminal side, the cost of complexity should be paid by the receiving side. We propose to use turbo processing schemes as potential physical layers. We compare these schemes to a standard and an industrial solution, and show that a significant gain in sensitivity can be achieved, and very energy efficient scheme can be designed by mixing turbo processing and orthogonal modulation concepts.