On the Advantage of Coherent LoRa Detection in the Presence of Interference

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 operate in the interference-limited regime. Therefore, in this work, we examine the performance of the LoRa modulation with coherent detection in the presence of interference from another LoRa user with the same spreading factor. We derive rigorous symbol- and frame error rate expressions as well as bounds and approximations for evaluating the error rates. The error rates predicted by these approximations are compared against error rates found by Monte Carlo simulations and shown to be very accurate. We also compare the performance of LoRa with coherent and non-coherent receivers and we show that the coherent detection of LoRa is significantly more beneficial in interference scenarios than in the presence of only AWGN. For example, we show that coherent detection leads to a 2.5 dB gain over the standard non-coherent detection for a signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) of 3 dB and up to a 10 dB gain for an SIR of 0 dB.

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