October 19 Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: TG4e Closing Report for November 2008 Date Submitted: November 2008 Source: Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC Contact: Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC Voice: +1 847 960-3715, E-Mail: pat.kinney@ieee.org Re: TG4e Closing Report for November 2008 Session Abstract: Closing Report for the TG4e Session in Dallas, Tx 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 October 19 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 Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

Purpose of Proposed Standard October 19 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. Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

October 19 Meeting Goals Hear presentations on proposed application spaces to be addressed with 802.15.4e amendment Discussion and group affirmation on specific application spaces targeted by TG4e Hear modifications to 802.15.4e proposal presentations Association of proposals to application spaces Selection of proposals to form baseline draft for specific application spaces Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

Proceeding from Proposals to Draft Define Application spaces: Define MAC behaviors that must be added/enhanced per application space Define those application spaces that TG4e will address Define MAC behaviors that proposals will add/enhance Review proposals based upon Application Space/MAC behavior TG selection of MAC behavior proposals or definition of criteria used for MAC behavior selection Draft changes

Proposed Application Spaces Factory Automation: Michael Bahr Process Automation: Chol Su Kang Asset Tracking: Wei Hong Commercial Building Automation: Rudi Belliardi General Sensor Control (Industrial/Commercial): Liang Li Home Medical Health/Monitor: Seong-Soon Joo Telecom Application: Betty Zhao Information Service File Sharing Neighborhood Area Networks: Ben Rolfe Wireless Home Automation: Zafer Sahinoglu, Ben Rolfe RF4CE: P Kinney

MAC Behavior Categories ACK Channel diversity Hopping (adaptive, black lists, etc) agility Superframe GTS TDMA Low Power Low duty cycle Overhead reduction Short MAC headers MESH support Path diversity Time synchronization Relative Access to absolute time Resource Scheduling Portability Fast association/disassociation Associationless Beacon scheduling Scalability

Next Steps Before January Interim TG4e refines the MAC behavior categories to better address the MAC behavior needs For January Interim Proposers to define how their proposal addresses the MAC behavior categories At January Interim TG4e will select proposals based upon how they address the MAC behavior categories

Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule October 19 Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC

Scheduled Conference Calls Every other Tuesday, 25 November and 9 December 6:00 PST, 9:00 CST, 15:00 CET, 23:00 Tokyo Conference Call Information +1.218.936.1600 access code: 802154 Slide 10 Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC