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Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [TG4k Opening Report for July 2011 Session]
Date Submitted: [21 July 2011]
Source: [Patrick Kinney] Company [Kinney Consulting LLC]
Address [Chicago area, IL, USA]
Voice:[ ],
Re: [TG4k Closing Report for July 2011 Session.]
Abstract: [Closing Report for the July TG4k Session]
Purpose: [PHY Amendment to IEEE ]
Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P 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.
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2. TG4k PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
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TG4k PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
This standard is an amendment to IEEE It addresses principally those applications such as critical infrastructure monitoring. It defines an alternate PHY and only those MAC modifications needed to support its implementation. The amendment supports:
Operation in any of the regionally available licensed, license exempt, and special purpose frequency bands.
Simultaneous operation for at least 8 co-located orthogonal networks
Application data rate of less than 40 kbits per second
Propagation path loss of at least 120 dB
> 1000 endpoints per mains powered infrastructure
Asymmetric application data flow
Extreme difference in capabilities and performance between endpoint devices and coordinating devices (collectors)
Coordinator may support all standardized modulations (MCS) and data rates
Coordinator may be required to support antenna diversity or antenna beam steering
End point must be able to conserve energy
Reliable operation in dramatically changing environments (no control over environment). This amendment also provides mechanisms that enable coexistence with other systems in the same band(s) including IEEE , , and systems
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3. Purpose of Proposed Standard
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Purpose of Proposed Standard
The purpose of this amendment is to facilitate point to multi-thousands of points communications for critical infrastructure monitoring devices. The amendment addresses the application’s user needs of minimal network infrastructure, and enables the collection of scheduled and event data from a large number of non-mains powered end points that are widely dispersed, or are in challenging propagation environments. To facilitate low energy operation necessary for multi-year battery life, the amendment minimizes network maintenance traffic and device wake durations. In addition, the amendment addresses the changing propagation and interference environments.
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Meeting Goals
Hear presentations of general interest
Energy harvesting presentation(s)
Tutorial on
Tutorial on e
Hear 7 preliminary proposals
Ted Meyers, Ben Rolfe, Shusaku Shimada, Matt Johnson, Jean Schwoerer, Song-Soon Joo, M. Al Ameen
Enhance Technical Guideline Document
Channel model presentation(s) and discussion
Low Energy metric discussion
Draft Coexistence Assurance document (started)
All Goals accomplished!
Still on schedule!
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TG4k Meetings This Week
Mtg
Monday (Pacific N)
Tuesday (Pacific N)
Wednesday (Pacific M)
Thursday (Pacific N)
AM1
Coexistence discussion
AM2
Preliminary presentations
PM1
Canceled due to conflicts with TG4e, TG4g
3 presentations, ITU-R WASN discussion
PM2
Opening Logistics, Tutorial presentations (4e, 4i)
Channel Model presentation(s)
Low Energy discussion, Process moving forward, closing logistics
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6. TG4k Officers Chair: Patrick Kinney Vice Chair: TBD
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TG4k Officers
Chair: Patrick Kinney
Vice Chair: TBD
Secretary: Betty Zhao
Technical Editor TBD
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7. TG4k Schedule Proposal Effort Drafting Balloting
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Proposal Effort
Technical Guidance Document May 2011
Call for Proposals May 2011
Preliminary Proposals July 2011
Final Proposals Sep 2011
Adopt Baseline Nov 2011
Drafting
Preliminary draft May 2012
Final draft (ready for WG Letter Ballot) July 2012
Balloting
Letter ballot Sep 2012
Recirculation I Jan 2013
Recirculation II Mar 2013
Recirculation III May 2013
Sponsor Ballot July 2013
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8. Logistics Conference Calls
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Conference Calls
Channel Model Call - Wednesday 3 August at 6:00 PDT, 9:00 EDT, 15:00 CST, 23:00 Tokyo
General Call – Wednesday 3 August at 18:30 PDT, 21:30 EDT, 3:30 CST, 10:30 Tokyo
Call details are: , participant access code:
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9. Logistics Final Proposals
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Final Proposals
Proposer instructions will be ed to TG4k reflector
Commitment to intent
Proposal uploaded to Mentor
1 hour time slot
minute presentation time
Panel discussion after all proposals are heard
Baseline decision will be made in November
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