Title
A Low Complexity ICFO Estimator and Compensator for IEEE 802.15.4g MR-OFDM PHY: Algorithm Proposal and Hardware Implementation
Abstract
This work proposes a novel algorithm and a hardware implementation for frequency-domain Integer Carrier Frequency Offset (ICFO) estimation and compensation, targeting the Multi-Rate and Multi-Regional Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MR-OFDM) physical layer (PHY) of IEEE 802.15.4g, which is an amendment to IEEE 802.15.4 standard for supporting Smart Metering Utility Networks (SUN). The paper derives a simple closed-form for both ICFO estimation and compensation processes, by considering not only the shift in subcarrier indices as an effect of the ICFO, which is commonly seen in the literature, but also a phase accumulation resulting from the combined effect of the ICFO and the presence of a Cyclic Prefix (CP). We present an estimation method robust to both multipath channel and time offset, as well as a simple compensation scheme in the frequency domain, which makes uses only of shift and sign operations. We also detail the implemented architecture and present results of performance simulation and RTL synthesis. The simulation results show the algorithm is robust to symbol boundary error and to channel with exponential power delay profile, with good performance under low SNR, achieving a failure rate of 0.1% at -3dB for one of the studied cases. The synthesis targeting Altera Cyclone IV GX FPGA resulted in 8% of resource usage. This ICFO estimator/compensator is part of a project that aims to implement in ASIC the three PHYs defined in the standard and integrate them to build a system fully compliant to IEEE 802.15.4g.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8580837
2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
ICFO compensator,ICFO estimator,Smart Metering Utility Networks,IEEE 802.15.4g MR-OFDM PHY,MultiRate Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,Cyclic Prefix,multipath channel,IEEE 802.15.4 standard,implemented architecture,frequency domain,simple compensation scheme,estimation method,compensation processes,simple closed-form,MultiRegional Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing,hardware implementation,algorithm proposal,noise figure 3.0 dB
Subcarrier,Cyclic prefix,Computer science,Carrier frequency offset,Algorithm,Physical layer,UTC offset,Computer hardware,Power delay profile,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,IEEE 802.15
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2166-9570
978-1-5386-6010-2
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Denise C. Alves-Tamagno110.43
Eduardo R. de Lima253.26
Renato R. Lopes3688.49