doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <Mar 2011> Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: [TG4e Closing Report for Mar 2011 Session] Date Submitted: [17 Mar2011] Source: [Patrick Kinney] Company [Kinney Consulting LLC] Address [Chicago area, IL, USA] Voice:[+1.847.960.3715], E-Mail:[pat.kinney@ieee.org] Re: [TG4e Closing Report for Mar 2011 Session.] Abstract: [Closing Report for the TG4e Session in Mar] Purpose: [Amendments to IEEE 802.15.4 MAC] Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P802.15. <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard May 18 <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <Mar 2011> TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard The intention of this amendment is to enhance and add functionality to the 802.15.4-2006 MAC to a) better support the industrial markets and b) permit compatibility with modifications being proposed within the Chinese WPAN. Specifically, the MAC enhancements are limited to: TDMA: to provide a) determinism, b) enhanced utilization of bandwidth Channel Hopping: to provide additional robustness in high interfering environments and enhance coexistence with other wireless networks GTS: to increase its flexibility such as a) supporting peer to peer, b) the length of the slot, and c) number of slots CSMA: to improve throughput and reduce energy consumption Security: to add support for additional options such as asymmetrical keys Low latency: to reduce end to end delivery time such as needed for control applications Slide 2 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC> Page 2

Purpose of Proposed Standard May 18 <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <Mar 2011> Purpose of Proposed Standard This functionality facilitates Industrial applications (such as addressed by HART 7 and the ISA100 proposed standards), and those enhancements defined by the proposed Chinese WPAN standard that aren't included in TG4c. This amendment addresses coexistence with wireless protocols such as 802.11, 802.15.1, 802.15.3, and 802.15.4. Slide 3 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC> Page 3

doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> May 18 <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <Mar 2011> Meeting Goals Review results from Letter Ballot 69 Review comments from Letter Ballot 69 Categorize comments as per ballot resolution team Resolve LB69 comments Edit draft and Coexistence Assurance document as per comment resolution Motion to WG to go to recirculation Slide 4 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC> Page 4

doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> May 18 <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <Mar 2011> TG4e Officers Chair: Patrick Kinney Vice Chair: Seong-Soon Joo Secretary: still no volunteers Technical Editing Ludwig Winkel - Chief Editor Liang Li, Wun-Cheol Jeong, Jonathan Simon, Ben Rolfe Slide 5 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC> Page 5

doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <month year> <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<doc#> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<15-09-0758-00-004e> <Mar 2011> TG4e Meetings This Week Mtg Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday AM1 Comment resolution AM2 Text Edit: draft & CA document PM1 Opening Logistics, LB60 result review PM2 Comment categorization Text Edit, Approve resolutions, closing logistics Slide 6 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC> Page 6 <author>, <company>

802.15.4 MAC Pictorial <Mar 2011> Low Latency (LL) ISA, HCF nonbeacon-enabled PAN beacon-enabled PAN DSME Time Schedule Channel Hopping (TSCH) Contention Access Contention-Free Low Latency (LL) ISA, HCF ZigBee, 802.15.5 Overhead Reduction/Security Low Energy Channel Diversity Blink frames (RFID) Red Existing Users Blue TG4e adds Black Informational <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

LB69 Results LB60 LB69 Aggregate VOTERS 217 217 217 VOTED 164 71 177 <Mar 2011> LB69 Results LB60 LB69 Aggregate VOTERS 217 217 217 VOTED 164 71 177 YES 128 62 150 ABSTAIN 11 2 12 NO 25 7 15 % VOTERS 76% 33% 82% % YES 84% 90% 91% % ABSTAIN 7% 3% 7% 304 Comments were received with 134 marked as part of the commenters' "Do Not Approve" vote <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

Technical Editing Path Forward <Mar 2011> Draft text in accordance with approved comment resolutions referring to 802.15.4i revision <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

<Mar 2011> TG4e Schedule TG4e Editor completion 8 Oct 2010 Letter Ballot Start (30-day) 8 Oct 2010 Letter Ballot Close 7 Nov 2010 Resolve comments 20 Jan 2011 Recirculation (15-day) 25 Feb 2011 Resolve comments 17 Mar 2011 Recirculation II 22 Apr 2011 Resolve comments 8 May 2011 Recirculation III (if needed) 2 Jul 2011 Sponsor Ballot 9 Sept 2011 Comment resolution & recirc 24 Oct 2011 IEEE RevCom approval Mar 2012 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

Next Steps Rewrite Coexistence Assurance document <Mar 2011> Next Steps Rewrite Coexistence Assurance document Draft text in accordance comment resolution using TG4i as baseline document Recirculate draft <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

Draft Preparation Effort <Mar 2011> Draft Preparation Effort Editors: Ludwig Winkel, Jonathan Simon, Wun Cheol Jeong, Liang Li Reviewers: BRC <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

<Mar 2011> New TG4e Chair Pat Kinney announced that he had volunteered to be TG4k chair and would be unable to continue to irritate people as TG4e chair TG voted unanimously to recommend that Seong-Soon Joo be appointed as the TG4e chair by the WG chair <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

<Mar 2011> Task Group Motion Move that the 802.15.4e Task Group seek 802.15 WG approval to start a WG Recirculation Letter Ballot requesting approval to forward document d3P802-15-4e_Draft_Standard.pdf, edited in accordance with comment spreadsheet P802.15-11-0205-09-004e, to Sponsor Ballot pending the completion and inclusion of the edits in the draft. Moved: Seong-Soon Joo Seconded: Ludwig Winkel Approved by unanimous consent <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

Formation of TG4e BRC Seong-Soon Joo Pat Kinney Ludwig Winkel Wei Hong <Mar 2011> Formation of TG4e BRC Seong-Soon Joo Pat Kinney Ludwig Winkel Wei Hong Jeff King Wun-Cheol Jeong Chang Sub Shin Ben Rolfe Yang Yang Myung Lee Jonathan Simon Kazuyuki Yasukawa TG motion to request that the WG approved the stated membership of the TG4e BRC was approved by unanimous consent <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

WG Motion <Mar 2011> Move that 802.15 WG approve the formation of an 802.15.4e Ballot Resolution Committee (BRC) with the following membership: Seong-Soon Joo, Pat Kinney, Ludwig Winkel, Wei Hong, Jeff King, Wun-Cheol Jeong, Chang Sub Shin, Ben Rolfe, Yang Yang, Myung Lee, Jonathan Simon, and Kazuyuki Yasukawa. The 802.15.4e BRC is authorized to approve comment resolutions and to approve the start of recirculation ballots of the 802.15.4e draft on behalf of the 802.15 WG. Comment resolution on recirculation ballots between sessions will be conducted via reflector email and via teleconferences announced to the reflector at least 7 days in advance. Moved: Pat Kinney Seconded: <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>

Logistics Conference Calls <Mar 2011> Logistics Conference Calls TG4e Call Tuesday 29 March at 6:30 PST, 9:30 EST, 15:30 CET, 23:30 Tokyo Call details are: +1.218.936.4700, participant access code: 802154 <Pat Kinney>, <Kinney Consulting LLC>