A Residual Phase Noise Compensation Method for IEEE 802.15.4 Compliant Dual-Mode Receiver for Diverse Low Power IoT Applications

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) with its plethora of applications brings up new challenges in optimizing power consumption, error performance, latency, and throughput in its communication devices. Recently, there has been increasing necessity of reconfigurable and multistandard transceivers in order to bring adaptability in the IoT devices to suit the nature of the application and satisfy the aforementioned performance metrics as well. In this paper, we focus on the efficient design of receivers compliant with IEEE 802.15.4 which is a prominent protocol for low power IoT applications. We propose a robust phase noise compensation method which efficiently removes the residual phase noise remaining after the coarse frequency offset compensation due to direct-sequence spread spectrum operation on large packets. We also propose a dual-mode receiver using the proposed compensation method and showcase its ability to cater to the diverse nature of IoT applications. The detailed architecture of proposed dual-mode receiver is presented along with its FPGA prototyping and ASIC implementation. We have analyzed overall power consumption by the proposed dual-mode receiver considering the packet error rate and retransmission scenario. The results show that the proposed receiver saves significant energy consumption by changing its mode in favorable channel environments.