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LoRa is currently one of the most widely used low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) technologies. The physical layer leverages a chirp spread spectrum modulation to achieve long-range communication with low power consumption. Synchronization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-06 Joachim Tapparel , Andreas Burg

The need for low power, long range and low cost connectivity to meet the requirements of IoT applications has led to the emergence of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) networking technologies. The promise of these technologies to wirelessly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Alexandru-Ioan Pop , Usman Raza , Parag Kulkarni , Mahesh Sooriyabandara

LoRaWAN is a leading standard and technology for low-power, long-range Internet-of-Things (IoT) communications. However, its single-hop architecture results in limited effective range and excessive power consumption for end devices,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ram Ramanathan , Dmitrii Dugaev , Liang Tan , Warren Ramanathan

Appearing on the stage quite recently, the Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) are currently getting much of attention. In the current paper we study the susceptibility of one LPWAN technology, namely LoRaWAN, to the inter-network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Konstantin Mikhaylov , Juha Petajajarvi , Janne Janhunen

Low power wide area network technologies (LPWANs) are attracting attention because they fulfill the need for long range low power communication for the Internet of Things. LoRa is one of the proprietary LPWAN physical layer (PHY)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Reza Ghanaatian , Orion Afisiadis , Matthieu Cotting , Andreas Burg

LoRa is a promising communication technology for enabling the next-generation indoor Internet of Things applications. Very few studies, however, have analyzed its performance indoors. Besides, these indoor studies investigate mostly the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mahbubur Rahman , Abusayeed Saifullah

LoRaWAN is nowadays one of the most popular protocols for low-power Internet-of-Things communications. Although its physical layer, namely LoRa, has been thoroughly studied in the literature, aspects related to the synchronization of LoRa…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Mathieu Xhonneux , Orion Afisiadis , David Bol , Jérôme Louveaux

LoRaWAN is one of the most promising standards for long-range sensing applications. However, the high number of end devices expected in at-scale deployment, combined with the absence of an effective synchronization scheme, challenge the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Tommaso Polonelli , Davide Brunelli , Achille Marzocchi , Luca Benini

LoRaWAN is a compelling low-cost solution for large-scale indoor Internet of Things (IoT) data backhaul, owing to its strong penetration capability and low power consumption. However, its default pure ALOHA access mechanism leads to severe…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Junxiao Liu , Xinyu Fan , Luping Xiang , Kun Yang

Long-range low-power wireless communications, such as LoRa, are used in many IoT and environmental monitoring applications. They typically increase the communication range to several kilometers, at the cost of reducing the bitrate to a few…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Nancy El Rachkidy , Alexandre Guitton , Megumi Kaneko

Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have been used to support low cost and mobile bi-directional communications for the Internet of Things (IoT), smart city and a wide range of industrial applications. A primary security concern of LPWAN…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Debraj Basu , Tianbo Gu , Prasant Mohapatra

Chirp spread spectrum (CSS) is the modulation technique currently employed by Long-Range (LoRa), which is one of the most prominent Internet of things wireless communications standards. The LoRa physical layer (PHY) employs CSS on top of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-11 Ivo Bizon Franco de Almeida , Marwa Chafii , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

The chirp spread spectrum (CSS) modulation scheme is employed by the physical layer of the Long Range (LoRa) communication technology. In this paper, we examine the performance of CSS over time-varying channels whose gain may change during…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Harishwar Reddy Bapathu , Siddhartha S. Borkotoky

In LoRa (Long Range), when a collision occurs in the network, each end-device has to retransmit its colliding frame, which reduces the throughput, and increases the energy consumption of the end-devices and the delay of the frames. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Samira Abboud , Nancy El Rachkidy , Alexandre Guitton

It has been shown that the coherent detection of LoRa signals only provides marginal gains of around 0.7 dB on the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. However, ALOHA-based massive Internet of Things systems, including LoRa, often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Orion Afisiadis , Sitian Li , Andreas Burg , Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming

Chirps spread spectrum (CSS) modulation is the heart of long-range (LoRa) modulation used in the context of long-range wide area network (LoRaWAN) in internet of things (IoT) scenarios. Despite being a proprietary technology owned by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Alireza Maleki , Ha H. Nguyen , Ebrahim Bedeer , Robert Barton

Long range radio communication is preferred in many IoT deployments as it avoids the complexity of multi-hop wireless networks. LoRa is a popular, energy-efficient wireless modulation but its networking substrate LoRaWAN introduces severe…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-05 José Álamos , Peter Kietzmann , Thomas Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

LoRa is a popular wireless technology that enables low-throughput (bytes) long-range communication (km) at low energy consumption (mW). Its transmission, though, is on one side prone to interference during long on-air times, and on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-21 José Álamos , Peter Kietzmann , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

This paper investigates the design of chirp-layered superposition coding for LoRa, where an additional waveform is linearly superposed on a standard LoRa transmission with minimal impact on the LoRa demodulation process. We first show that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jingxiang Huang , Samer Lahoud

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed many industries, and LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network), built on LoRa (Long Range) technology, has become a crucial solution for enabling scalable, low-cost, and energy-efficient…