IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN™) May 2002 doc.: IEEE 802.15-02/181r0 May 2002 IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPAN™) WNG Liaison Report May 2002 Sydney, AU Tim Blaney, Commcepts Ian Gifford, Consultant

Sydney Objectives Status review High Throughput Extensions to 802.11 May 2002 Sydney Objectives Status review St Louis, BRAN #28, MMAC High Throughput Extensions to 802.11 Consider study group formation Radio Resource Measurement UWB update Near term/ long term – BRAN & MMAC coordination WWAN/WLAN integration Joint regulatory meeting Tim Blaney, Commcepts

Summary High Attendance May 2002 Summary High Attendance 79 signed-up 19 Presentations were made on a wide range of topics: OFDM-HDR Next Generation WLANs WLAN-WWAN-WPAN Interworking UWB Radio Resource Measurement Multi-Hop Radios High Data Rate WPANs Tim Blaney, Commcepts

May 2002 Summary (Cont.) Two motions to request the WG to form new study groups were passed: Form a new IEEE 802.11 Study Group called Radio Resource Measurement Form a new IEEE 802.11 Study Group called the High Throughput Study Group (HTSG) 802.11 and 802.15 chairs will continue to discuss and consider formal response to ETSI invitation to participate in joint Wireless Interworking Group (WIG) meetings starting in September in Monterey Tim Blaney, Commcepts

May 2002 WNG SC Presentations Burst Transmission and Acknowledgement for Higher Data Rates over 100Mbps Jon Rosdahl: 02/309r0 Throughput Limit for IEEE 802.11 Jon Rosdahl: 02/291r0 Limit was claimed to be 75 Mbps Enabling Seamless Hand-Off Across Wireless Networks Albert Young: 02/345r0 Integration of WPANs, WLANs and WWANs QoS-enabled Multihop meets High Data Rate Oliver Mulhens: 02/333r0 Tim Blaney, Commcepts

WNG SC Presentations (Cont.) May 2002 WNG SC Presentations (Cont.) Requirements for Home Networking C. Ware: 02/310r1 MAC needs to evolve for Home Entertainment Both the PHY and MAC need upgrading MIMO-OFDM Considerations Heejung Yu: 02/294r1 Zero Forcing receiver: MMSE receiver Thoughts on HDR 802.11 Jim Tomcik: 02/371r0 QoS is easier to achieve in slotted systems Hotspots can really use the added throughput & QoS Next Gen Wireless LANs Yasuhiko Inoue: 02/308r0 Basic rate of 100 Mbps with options to 2x & 4x speeds Target both the 2.4 & 5.0 GHz bands Tim Blaney, Commcepts

WNG SC Presentations (Cont.2) May 2002 WNG SC Presentations (Cont.2) UWB Teleconference Report Richard Paine: 02/336r0 Implications of FCC Ruling on Part 15 UWB indoor and handheld masks FHSS in 2.4 GHz spectrum lowering number of hops to 15 provided system uses no more than 125 mW 2.4 GHz opened to other technologies Still not enough for UWB as an 802.11 PHY but not ready to write off PHY Frequency possibilities ISM 902, 2.4, 5.75 UNII 5.15-5.25 UWB 3.1-10.6 29 or 60 GHz phased arrays 02/338, 02/339 PAR & 6C for 802.11a High Rate Study Group (HRaSG) Tim Blaney, Commcepts

WNG SC Presentations (Cont.3) May 2002 WNG SC Presentations (Cont.3) Overview of activities in 802.15 SG3a Rick Roberts (Chair SG3a) presented Talked about CFA (8 applications) Discussed the key points of the SG’s activities: Application Summary (02/149), Technical Requirements (02/104), Selection Criteria (02/105) Channel Model CFP Schedule Update Proposal presentations in September Task Group by November (hopefully) ¼ Gbps WLANs Gunnar Nitsche: 02/320r0 Uses MIMO techniques and increased modulation Altogether 2.25 (BW) x 1.5 (MIMO system) x 8/6 (higher modulation) => ¼ Gbps Tim Blaney, Commcepts

Radio Resource Management Ad-Hoc Group May 2002 Radio Resource Management Ad-Hoc Group Monitoring 802.11 Networks Simon Barber: 02/359r0 MIBs, Diagnostics, Link Statistics, Events to report Overview and Updates to draft PAR & Criteria document (Richard Paine) Motion by Harry Worstell Move to request the WNG chair to request the 802.11 Working Group to form a Study Group for the purposes of writing a PAR and criteria to address Radio Resource Measurements to amend the published IEEE 802.11 Standard Vote: 54-Y, 4-N, 6-A Chair nominations to be accepted upon approval Tim Blaney, Commcepts

HDR Towards 802.11 HDR in the Enterprise May 2002 HDR Towards 802.11 HDR in the Enterprise S. Simoens: 02/312r0 Ethernet LANs will use 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps in 2005 WLAN complement wired networks HDR Technology Considerations Advanced channel coder (i.e. Turbo Code) Higher order modulation (i.e. 256 QAM) Hybrid ARQ Spatial Diversity Discussion of SG formation for HDR extension to 802.11a Bruce Kraemer: 02/335r3 Review of guidelines 6 Criteria (including coexistence) Tim Blaney, Commcepts

HTSG (High Throughput SG) WNG Motion May 2002 HTSG (High Throughput SG) WNG Motion Move to form a new IEEE 802.11 Study Group called the High Throughput Study Group (HTSG), to investigate the feasibility of providing throughputs greater than the existing 802.11 standard. Upon confirmation of feasibility and per 802 operating rules, the HTSG shall draft a PAR and 6 criteria to be submitted to the 802.11 WG. With the first HTSG meeting starting not earlier than September 2002 session Yes: 44 No: 1 Abstain: 0 Tim Blaney, Commcepts

Call for Study Group Officers May 2002 Call for Study Group Officers Candidates for Officer positions in the proposed Study Groups Radio Measurement and High Throughput Are requested to submit their names to WG Chair, Stuart Kerry prior to the July meeting. Confirmations will be completed during the 802.11 opening plenary meeting Monday July 8 pending approval by ExCom Monday morning. Tim Blaney, Commcepts

July Session Plans (Vancouver) May 2002 July Session Plans (Vancouver) Organize formation of Radio Measurement Study Group Organize formation of High Throughput Study Group Review results of BRAN #29 Response to MMAC Liaison letter Response to ETSI Interworking request Cable Labs Liaison Scope of WNG activities Long term WLAN requirements MAC revisions Coordination with ETSI/MMAC Radio Regulations Tim Blaney, Commcepts