Development and Comparison of DDS and Multi-DDS Chirp Waveform Generator

Kim, Kyeong-Rok; Kim, Song; Ki, Choong-Ho; Kim, Tu-Hwan; Yang, Hee Jung; Kim, Jae Hyun

doi:10.1109/igarss.2019.8899178

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“…We leverage Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) [32], a digital signal processing method to generate chirp signals. Compared to other analog frequency synthesis [26] or voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) [29] based approaches, DDS is immune to both frequency and amplitude drifts and thus has been widely adopted for chirp signal generation in a radar system, e.g., frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radars [21,22] and synthetic aperture radars (SAR) [18,37].…”

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CurvingLoRa to Boost LoRa Network Capacity via Concurrent Transmission

Li¹,

Guo²,

Shangguan³

et al. 2022

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LoRaWAN has emerged as an appealing technology to connect IoT devices but it functions without explicit coordination among transmitters, which can lead to many packet collisions as the network scales. State-of-the-art work proposes various approaches to deal with these collisions, but most functions only in high signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) conditions and thus does not scale to many scenarios where weak receptions are easily buried by stronger receptions from nearby transmitters. In this paper, we take a fresh look at LoRa's physical layer, revealing that its underlying linear chirp modulation fundamentally limits the capacity and scalability of concurrent LoRa transmissions. We show that by replacing linear chirps with their non-linear counterparts, we can boost the capacity of concurrent LoRa transmissions and empower the LoRa receiver to successfully receive weak transmissions in the presence of strong colliding signals. Such a non-linear chirp design further enables the receiver to demodulate fully aligned collision symbols -a case where none of the existing approaches can deal with. We implement these ideas in a holistic LoRaWAN stack based on the USRP N210 software-defined radio platform. Our head-to-head comparison with two stateof-the-art research systems and a standard LoRaWAN baseline demonstrates that CurvingLoRa improves the network throughput by 1.6-7.6× while simultaneously sacrificing neither power efficiency nor noise resilience. An open-source dataset and code will be made available before publication.

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