Submission Title: [ Wireless Neighborhood Area Networks – WNAN ] 27-June-2008 Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Groupfor Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: [ Wireless Neighborhood Area Networks – WNAN ] Date Submitted: [ 15 July, 2008 ] Source: [ George Flammer ] Company/Organization [ Silver Spring Networks ] Address: [ 575 Broadway, Redwood City, CA ] Tel [ 650-298-4200] E-Mail: [ gflammer (at) SilverSpringNet.com ] Re: IEEE 802 Plenary WNAN WNG Abstract: WNAN scalability issues – Description of WNAN as PAN scaled up. Purpose: To brief IEEE 802 Membership on WNAN application area and need for standards 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.

WNAN ‘neighborhood’

WNAN ‘neighborhoods’ can be large

Scalable networks: auto-configuration Latency is highly correlated with hop count; WNAN endpoints can continually evaluate and improve their routes. Collectively optimal routing - can be easy networking.

Scalable networks: variable endpoint density WNAN density plotted for each 100’ hexagonal cell in a deployment area 20 km by 8km.

WNAN scalability – need for new tools