On Performance of LoRa Fluid Antenna Systems

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Main Authors: Mu, Gaoze, Hou, Yanzhao, Wong, Kai-Kit, Chen, Mingjie, Cui, Qimei, Tao, Xiaofeng, Zhang, Ping
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author Mu, Gaoze
Hou, Yanzhao
Wong, Kai-Kit
Chen, Mingjie
Cui, Qimei
Tao, Xiaofeng
Zhang, Ping
author_facet Mu, Gaoze
Hou, Yanzhao
Wong, Kai-Kit
Chen, Mingjie
Cui, Qimei
Tao, Xiaofeng
Zhang, Ping
contents This paper advocates a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted long-range communication (LoRa-FAS) for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. \textcolor{blue}{In the proposed system, FAS provides spatial diversity gains for LoRa, eliminating the necessity for integrating multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technologies into the system. It consists of a traditional LoRa transmitter with a fixed-position antenna and a LoRa receiver employing the FAS (Rx-FAS). The pilot sequence overhead and placement for FAS are also considered. Specifically, we consider embedding pilot sequences within symbols to reduce the impact of pilot overhead on system throughput and the physical layer (PHY) frame structure, leveraging the fact that the pilot sequences do not convey source information and correlation detection at the LoRa receiver needs not be performed across the entire symbol. The achievable performance of LoRa-FAS is thoroughly analyzed under both coherent and non-coherent detection schemes.} We obtain new closed-form approximations for the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the FAS channel under the block-correlation model. Furthermore, the approximate SER, equivalently the bit error rate (BER), of the proposed LoRa-FAS is also derived in closed form. Simulation results indicate that substantial SER gains can be achieved by FAS within the LoRa framework, even with a limited size of FAS. In addition, our analytical results align well with Clarke's exact spatial correlation model. Finally, when utilizing the block-correlation model, we suggest that the correlation factor should be selected as the proportion of the eigenvalues of the exact correlation matrix greater than 1 for higher accuracy.
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spellingShingle On Performance of LoRa Fluid Antenna Systems
Mu, Gaoze
Hou, Yanzhao
Wong, Kai-Kit
Chen, Mingjie
Cui, Qimei
Tao, Xiaofeng
Zhang, Ping
Signal Processing
This paper advocates a fluid antenna system (FAS)-assisted long-range communication (LoRa-FAS) for Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. \textcolor{blue}{In the proposed system, FAS provides spatial diversity gains for LoRa, eliminating the necessity for integrating multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technologies into the system. It consists of a traditional LoRa transmitter with a fixed-position antenna and a LoRa receiver employing the FAS (Rx-FAS). The pilot sequence overhead and placement for FAS are also considered. Specifically, we consider embedding pilot sequences within symbols to reduce the impact of pilot overhead on system throughput and the physical layer (PHY) frame structure, leveraging the fact that the pilot sequences do not convey source information and correlation detection at the LoRa receiver needs not be performed across the entire symbol. The achievable performance of LoRa-FAS is thoroughly analyzed under both coherent and non-coherent detection schemes.} We obtain new closed-form approximations for the probability density function (PDF) and cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the FAS channel under the block-correlation model. Furthermore, the approximate SER, equivalently the bit error rate (BER), of the proposed LoRa-FAS is also derived in closed form. Simulation results indicate that substantial SER gains can be achieved by FAS within the LoRa framework, even with a limited size of FAS. In addition, our analytical results align well with Clarke's exact spatial correlation model. Finally, when utilizing the block-correlation model, we suggest that the correlation factor should be selected as the proportion of the eigenvalues of the exact correlation matrix greater than 1 for higher accuracy.
title On Performance of LoRa Fluid Antenna Systems
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15258