Preamble-based Successive Channel Estimation for Multiuser Massive MIMO LoRaWAN with Asynchronous Packets
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Abstract
This paper introduces a successive channel estimation method for multiuser massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) long-range (LoRa) networks with asynchronous (on packet or symbol levels) transmission. The proposed channel estimation method exploits LoRa packets’ preambles as pilot sequences, which enables semi-coherent detection with maximum ratio combining (MRC). The channel state information (CSI) acquisition and data detection are performed in a successive manner in time-of-arrival (ToA) order, where the channel estimation of an end device (ED) is enabled by the detected data of previous (in the ToA order) EDs in the network. To achieve the best channel estimation quality for each ED, we formulate and solve an optimization problem to maximize the preamble power to noise power ratio (PNR). Simulation results show that with the proposed preamble-based CSI acquisition method, massive MIMO LoRa networks can utilize MRC to detect overlapped and asynchronous packets from multiple EDs, at the cost of a reasonable deterioration in error performance as compared to the single ED case.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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