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In Low Power Wide Area networks, terminals are expected to be low cost, low power and able to achieve successful communication at long range. Communication should be low rate compared to cellular mobile networks. Most of the current technologies dedicated to Machine-to-Machine communication rely on the use of a spreading factor to achieve low levels of sensitivity. To contain power consumption at the terminal side, the cost of complexity should be paid by the receiving side. We propose to use turbo processing schemes as potential physical layers. We compare these schemes to a standard and an industrial solution, and show that a significant gain in sensitivity can be achieved, and very energy efficient scheme can be designed by mixing turbo processing and orthogonal modulation concepts.
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Roth, Y., Doré, JB., Ros, L., Berg, V. (2016). A Comparison of Physical Layers for Low Power Wide Area Networks. In: Noguet, D., Moessner, K., Palicot, J. (eds) Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks. CrownCom 2016. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 172. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40352-6_21
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