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Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [TG4e Closing Report for May 2009 Session]
Date Submitted: [14 May 2009]
Source: [Patrick Kinney] Company [Kinney Consulting LLC]
Address [Chicago area, IL, USA]
Voice:[ ],
Re: [TG4e Closing Report for May 2009 Session.]
Abstract: [Closing Report for the TG4e Session in Montreal, Canada]
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
Editor and subgroup work on each proposal to provide necessary detail as to specific changes to
Subgroups work with other subgroups to merge their proposals
Coordination between proposal editors and subgroups with goal of unification/harmonization of changes
TG4e will select those efforts to either move forward, reformulate their proposed effort, or to discontinue the effort
Collect all changes into rough draft of amendment
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TG4e Meetings This Week
Mtg
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
AM1
Fact. Auto. Presentation
(Gatineau)
AM2
Opening Remarks
TSCH Presentation
PM1
EGTS Presentation
Chan Diversity Presentations
Low Energy
Presentation
(Chaudiere)
PM2
Joint Mtg w/4f, 4g (Mackenzie)
Overhead Reduction
Closing
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6. 802.15.4 MAC <May 2009> Factory Automation ISA, HCF
Contention-Free
Contention-Free
E-GTS
TDMA
ZigBee,
Contention Access
Contention Access
beacon-enabled PAN
nonbeacon-enabled PAN
Overhead Reduction/Security
Low Energy
Channel Diversity
MAC
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7. Technical Editing Path Forward
<May 2009>
Editor and subgroup work on each proposal to provide necessary detail as to specific changes to
Subgroups work with other subgroups to merge their proposals
Coordination between proposal editors and subgroups with goal of unification or harmonization of changes
Collect all changes into rough draft of amendment
TG ballot of rough draft
Comment resolution effort
WG ballot of draft
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8. Editing Assignments <May 2009> Subgroup Proposal Lead Editor
EGTS
Myung Lee
Liang Li
TSCH
Chol Su Kang
Ludwig Winkel
Factory Automation
Michael Bahr
Zafer Sahinoglu
Channel Diversity
Wun-Cheol Jeong
Overhead Reduction
Rene Struik
Low Energy
Wei Hong
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9. Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule
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Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule
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10. Conference Calls TG4e: 26 May, 9 June, 23 June E-GTS
6:00 PDT, 9:00 EDT, 15:00 CEST, 22:00Tokyo
E-GTS
TSCH: 3 June, 1 July
6:30 PDT, 9:30 EDT, 15:30 CEST, 22:30Tokyo
Factory Automation: 16 June
5:00 PDT, 8:00 EDT, 14:00 CEST, 21:00Tokyo
Channel Diversity: 28 May, 18 June
17:00 PDT, 20:00 EDT, 02:00 CEST, 09:00Tokyo
Overhead Reduction: 11 June, 25 June, 9 July
09:00 PDT, 12:00 EDT, 18:00 CEST, 01:00Tokyo
Low Energy
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