Low power communication has evolved towards multi-kilometer ranges and low bit-rate schemes in recent years. LoRa is an example of such a long-range technology that is triggering increasing interest. Using these technologies, a trade-off must be made between power consumption and latency for message transfer from the gateway to the nodes. However, domains such as industrial applications in which sensors and actuators are part of the control loop require predictable latency, as well as low power consumption. These requirements can be fulfilled using pure-asynchronous communication and idle listening elimination, allowed by emerging ultra-low-power wake-up receivers. On the other hand, state-of-the-art wake-up receivers present low sensitivity compared to traditional wireless node receivers and LoRa, which results in the fact that they can operate in short-range in the order of a few tens of meters. In this work, we propose an energy efficient architecture that combines long-range communication with ultra low-power short-range wake-up receivers to achieve both energy efficient and low latency communication in heterogeneous long-short range networks. The proposed hardware architecture uses a single radio transceiver that can communicate using both LoRa and state-of-the-art wake-up receivers while the proposed MAC protocol exploits the benefits of these two communication schemes. Experimental measurements and analytical comparisons show the benefits regarding both energy efficiency and latency enabled by the proposed approach. Analytical comparisons show that the proposed scheme allows up to 3000 times reduction of the power consumption compared to the standard LoRa approach.

A Low Latency and Energy Efficient Communication Architecture for Heterogeneous Long-Short Range Communication

MAGNO, MICHELE;BENINI, LUCA
2016

Abstract

Low power communication has evolved towards multi-kilometer ranges and low bit-rate schemes in recent years. LoRa is an example of such a long-range technology that is triggering increasing interest. Using these technologies, a trade-off must be made between power consumption and latency for message transfer from the gateway to the nodes. However, domains such as industrial applications in which sensors and actuators are part of the control loop require predictable latency, as well as low power consumption. These requirements can be fulfilled using pure-asynchronous communication and idle listening elimination, allowed by emerging ultra-low-power wake-up receivers. On the other hand, state-of-the-art wake-up receivers present low sensitivity compared to traditional wireless node receivers and LoRa, which results in the fact that they can operate in short-range in the order of a few tens of meters. In this work, we propose an energy efficient architecture that combines long-range communication with ultra low-power short-range wake-up receivers to achieve both energy efficient and low latency communication in heterogeneous long-short range networks. The proposed hardware architecture uses a single radio transceiver that can communicate using both LoRa and state-of-the-art wake-up receivers while the proposed MAC protocol exploits the benefits of these two communication schemes. Experimental measurements and analytical comparisons show the benefits regarding both energy efficiency and latency enabled by the proposed approach. Analytical comparisons show that the proposed scheme allows up to 3000 times reduction of the power consumption compared to the standard LoRa approach.
2016
Proceedings - 19th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design, DSD 2016
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Aoudia, Faycal Ait; Magno, Michele; Gautier, Matthieu; Berder, Olivier; Benini, Luca
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