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Project: IEEE P 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]
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Re: [TG4e Closing Report for Mar 2011 Session.]
Abstract: [Closing Report for the TG4e Session in Mar]
Purpose: [Amendments to IEEE MAC]
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2. TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
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TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
The intention of this amendment is to enhance and add functionality to the 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
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3. Purpose of Proposed Standard
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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 , , , and
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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
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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
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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
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7. 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,
Overhead Reduction/Security
Low Energy
Channel Diversity
Blink frames (RFID)
Red Existing Users
Blue TG4e adds
Black Informational
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8. LB69 Results LB60 LB69 Aggregate VOTERS 217 217 217 VOTED 164 71 177
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LB69 Results
LB60 LB69 Aggregate
VOTERS
VOTED
YES
ABSTAIN NO
% 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
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9. Technical Editing Path Forward
<Mar 2011>
Draft text in accordance with approved comment resolutions referring to i revision
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10. <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
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11. 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
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12. Draft Preparation Effort
<Mar 2011>
Draft Preparation Effort
Editors: Ludwig Winkel, Jonathan Simon, Wun Cheol Jeong, Liang Li
Reviewers: BRC
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13. <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
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14. <Mar 2011>
Task Group Motion
Move that the e Task Group seek WG approval to start a WG Recirculation Letter Ballot requesting approval to forward document d3P e_Draft_Standard.pdf, edited in accordance with comment spreadsheet P e, 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
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15. Formation of TG4e BRC Seong-Soon Joo Pat Kinney Ludwig Winkel Wei Hong
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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
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16. WG Motion
<Mar 2011>
Move that WG approve the formation of an e 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 e BRC is authorized to approve comment resolutions and to approve the start of recirculation ballots of the e draft on behalf of the WG. Comment resolution on recirculation ballots between sessions will be conducted via reflector and via teleconferences announced to the reflector at least 7 days in advance.
Moved: Pat Kinney
Seconded:
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17. 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: , participant access code:
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