Presentation 2021-04-22
Pilotless Multipath Equalization for Chirp Spread Non-coherent FSK
Yuta Hori, Masatsugu Higashinaka, Hiroshi Aruga,
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Abstract(in English) In low power wide area (LPWA) systems such as LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network), a combination of frequency shift keying (FSK) and direct sequence spread spectrum (DS-SS) with chirp sequence is beneficial due to its high power efficiency and high receiver sensitivity. In general, non-coherent detection is applied to FSK due to its simplicity of implementation. However, employing non-coherent FSK in which the channel estimation and the channel equalization are not performed has a disadvantage that it cannot achieve diversity gain provided by the multipath channel. In addition, the combination of the chirp DS-SS and the non-coherent FSK incurs error floor over the multipath channel with a specific delay profile. In this paper, we propose a new transmission and detection method for the chirp DS-SS with the non-coherent FSK that is able to obtain the multipath diversity gain. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme achieves higher diversity gain than the conventional non-coherent tranceiver over the multipath channels. Moreover, we show that the proposed scheme improves error rate performance over the multipath channel with the specific delay profile where the conventional scheme suffers from the error floor.
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Keyword(in English) Frequency Shift Keying / Non-coherent Detection / Chirp Sequence / Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum
Paper # RCS2021-8
Date of Issue 2021-04-15 (RCS)

Conference Information
Committee RCS
Conference Date 2021/4/22(2days)
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Place (in English) Online
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Topics (in English) Railroad Communications, Inter-Vehicle Communications, Road to Vehicle Communications, Radio Access Technologies, Wireless Communications, etc.
Chair Eiji Okamoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Fumiaki Maehara(Waseda Univ.) / Toshihiko Nishimura(Hokkaido Univ.) / Tomoya Tandai(Toshiba)
Secretary Fumiaki Maehara(Kyushu Univ.) / Toshihiko Nishimura(NEC) / Tomoya Tandai
Assistant Koichi Adachi(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Osamu Nakamura(Sharp) / Manabu Sakai(Mitsubishi Electric) / Masashi Iwabuchi(NTT) / Tatsuki Okuyama(NTT DOCOMO)

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Language JPN
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Title (in English) Pilotless Multipath Equalization for Chirp Spread Non-coherent FSK
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Frequency Shift Keying
Keyword(2) Non-coherent Detection
Keyword(3) Chirp Sequence
Keyword(4) Direct-sequence Spread Spectrum
1st Author's Name Yuta Hori
1st Author's Affiliation Mitsubishi Electric(MELCO)
2nd Author's Name Masatsugu Higashinaka
2nd Author's Affiliation Mitsubishi Electric(MELCO)
3rd Author's Name Hiroshi Aruga
3rd Author's Affiliation Mitsubishi Electric(MELCO)
Date 2021-04-22
Paper # RCS2021-8
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) RCS-7
Page pp.pp.30-35(RCS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-04-15 (RCS)