Wi-Fi Alliance TGn Marketing Task MRD Status September 2003 Wi-Fi Alliance TGn Marketing Task MRD Status Paul Feinberg Co-Chair of the Wi-Fi Alliance TGn Marketing Task Group Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

Wi-Fi Alliance High Throughput Marketing TG - Background September 2003 Wi-Fi Alliance High Throughput Marketing TG - Background High Throughput (HT) MRD TG was formed in June Held weekly Telecons Established formal liaison with IEEE 802.11 TG related to HT and received board approval to share MRD draft content Output: Marketing Requirements Document (MRD) Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

Summary of Requirements in MRD September 2003 Summary of Requirements in MRD Usage models and Applications Market timing Performance Quality of Coverage Capacity and Interference Robustness Network Topologies Mixed Mode Operations Power Consumption Backward Compatibility/Coexistence Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

September 2003 Target Markets Domestic and commercial entertainment and ad-hoc information processing (Infotainment) Business and Institutional Information Processing (Business) Public Internet Service (Services) Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

Link Level Throughput & Range September 2003 Range A D C B Throughput Business Infotainment Services   Point A/C = 80 Mb/s at 20m. This denotes the point of link level throughput required in typical domestic settings Point B/D = 10 Mb/s at 100 m. This denotes the point of minimal link level throughput required in typical hotspot settings Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

High Throughput Applications September 2003 High Throughput Applications Applications and target markets Transmission characteristics Reference Application Examples Target markets Type Rate Duration/ Volume Audio/Video 1 DV & HDTV viewing for commercial and domestics use Infotainment Constant (low jitter) 27 Mb/s Hours Audio/Video 2 SDTV viewing for commercial and domestic use Business 6 Mb/s Audio/Video 3 Video Conferencing with VoIP Services Constant (low jitter) 2 Mb/s < 1hour Audio/Video 4 HQ Real time Gaming Display 100 Mb/s 1 hour Interactive 1 Interactive Gaming, Internet Browsing; Email Variable Interactive 2 VoIP, Internet Gaming,   Infotainment Services Constant with intervals .2 MB/s 1 minute – 1 hour Bulk Transfer File transfer; media (un)loading (10 Mb/s) 10 MB – 10 GB Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

September 2003 Environments Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

Environment (continued) September 2003 Environment (continued) Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

September 2003 Task Group Status Completed first version of MRD draft text (submitted to TGn) Conducted membership survey related to market requirements for high throughput applications Evaluated environments based on knowledge of demographics (e.g., house size, occupants, materials) Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)

September 2003 Next Steps Align recent inputs from Tokyo Quarterly meeting last week with MRD Finalize analysis of environments (usage model rqts, channel considerations, etc.) Continue exchange with TGn Prepare final version of MRD Paul Feinberg (Wi-Fi Alliance)