Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2024, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 211-221.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2024.02.003

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Interference and Scalability Analysis of LoRa Spread Spectrum Channel

LEI Fang, CHEN Bo, LYU Jingzhao   

  1. School of Communication and Information Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing 400065, China
  • Received:2022-03-19 Online:2024-03-31 Published:2024-03-28

Abstract: In order to improve the access capacity of LoRa communication system nodes, the interference and scalability of LoRa communication system are analyzed in detail. Firstly, this paper analyzes the interference between the same spread spectrum channel and the interference between different spread spectrum channels in LoRa, and obtains the reasons for the serious interference of the same spread spectrum channel and the certain interference of different spread spectrum channels. It is found that the closer the chip spacing between spread spectrum channels, the more serious the interference is. Secondly, an interference cancellation algorithm between different LoRa spread spectrum channels is proposed. Simulation results show that the algorithm can effectively eliminate the interference of low spread spectrum channels and is feasible. Finally, the expansibility of LoRa's original modulation and demodulation algorithm is analyzed through theory. Combined with the characteristics of LoRa technology and interference simulation results, it is concluded that the difference between the number of chips of LoRa's new spread spectrum channel and adjacent spread spectrum channel is greater than or equal to 128. The antinoise performance and feasibility of four typical new spread spectrum channels are verified by simulation, and the accessible capacity of system nodes can be increased by 36.94%.

Key words: LoRa, spread spectrum channel, interference, number of chips, expansibility

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