EMU: Increasing the Performance and Applicability of LoRa through Chirp Emulation, Snipping, and Multiplexing

Carlo Alberto Boano, Fengxu Yang, Pei Tian, Xiaoyuan Ma, Ye Liu, Jianming Wei

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Abstract

This paper presents EMU, a framework that enables the emulation, snipping, and multiplexing of LoRa chirps on commercial IoT devices equipped with low-power sub-GHz transceivers, including those supporting LoRa itself. Chirp snipping consists in artificially removing a sequence of chips and in putting the radio in low-power mode, which allows to reduce energy consumption while still commu-nicating reliably. Chirp multiplexing exploits the gaps introduced by chirp snipping to transmit portions of another chirp on a sep-arate channel, which allows to concurrently transmit two LoRa packets and to increase the throughput. We build EMU as a modu-lar framework and implement support for off-the-shelf LoRa and non-LoRa transceivers. We then evaluate its performance by com-paring the reliability, efficiency, and receiver sensitivity achieved by EMU with that of traditional LoRa for different physical layer settings. We finally showcase EMU's ability to send packets over two channels simultaneously, thereby improving the uplink throughput of LoRaWan, and demonstrate that even non-LoRa transceivers employing EMU can communicate to a LoRaWan gateway, enabling new use cases and expanding the applicability of LoRa technology.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2022
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages363-376
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-6654-9624-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 May 2022
Event21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks: IPSN 2022 - Milano, Virtuell, Italy
Duration: 4 May 20226 May 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2022

Conference

Conference21th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks
Abbreviated titleIPSN 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityVirtuell
Period4/05/226/05/22

Keywords

  • CC1125
  • Chirp
  • Cross-technology communication
  • CSS modulation
  • Emulation
  • Energy efficiency
  • IoT
  • LDRO
  • LoRa
  • LoRaWAN
  • LPWAN
  • Performance evaluation
  • Reliability
  • SX1276
  • Throughput

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems and Management
  • Information Systems
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

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