Submission Title: Opening Report for the TG6 Session in March 2009 Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: Opening Report for the TG6 Session in March 2009 Date Submitted: March 9, 2009 Source: Arthur Astrin Contact: Arthur Astrin, Astrin Radio Voice: +1 (650) 704 2517, E-Mail: astrin@ieee.org Re: TG6 Opening Report for March 2009 Session Abstract: Opening report for the TG6 Session. Purpose: To focus activities during the meeting 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 maybe made publicly available by P802.15. Arthur Astrin

8th Meeting as a Task Group 6 March 2009 IEEE 802.15 TG6 Body Area Network Opening Report 8th Meeting as a Task Group 6 Vancouver, BC March 19, 2009 Arthur Astrin

Plans for March 2009 meeting Presentations of preliminary proposals Prepare to hear proposals in May Arthur Astrin

March Presenters March 2009 16 Arthur Astrin ***** ***** 34   Name Affiliation March 1 Huan-Bang Li NICT 2 Omeni Okundu Tomaz 3 Dino Minutti NICTA 4 Tatsuo Nakagawa Hitachi 5 Olivier Rousseaux IMEC NL ***** 6 Maulin Patel Philips 7 John Farserotu CSEM 8 Jaehwan Kim ETRI 9 Jung-hwan Hwang 10 Sung Weon Kang 11 Hyung-il Park 12 Frederick Martin Motorola 13 Alireza Seyedi University of Rochester 14 Ida Ichiro Fujitsu 15 Jean Schwoerer France Telecom 16 Kyung Sup Kwak  Inha University, Korea 17 Seok Ho Kim   18 Youjin Kim 19 Li Huang 20 Dong Kyoo Kim 21 Seung-Moon Ryu Casuh Corp 22 Bin Zhen 23 Jerome Rousselot 24 Kiran Bynam Samsung Electronics 25 Feng Shu 26 Shinsuke Hara 27 Giriraj Goyal 28 Seung-Hoon Park 29 Eun Tae Won 30 Chihong Cho 31 Wan-Cheol Yang Samsung Electro-Mechanics 32 Seung Hyong Rhee Kwangwoon University 33 Sang-Yub Lee 34 Noh-Gyoung Kang Samsung Electronics 35 Marco Hernandez NICT ***** 36 Igor Dotlic 37 Anuj Batra Texas Instruments 38 June Seung Yoon City University of New York 39 Kamran Sayrafian NIST 40 Tetsushi Ikegami Meiji University 41 Ranjeet Kumar Patro 42 Sungrae Cho Chung-Ang University 43 Kenichi Takizawa 44 Changle Li 45 Michael Mc Laughlin DecaWave Ltd. 46 Didier Sagan Zarlink 47 Arnaud Tonnerre THALES Communications 48 Amal Ekbal Qualcomm 49 James Spoto Kairos Microsystems 50 Christopher Hansen Broadcom Corporation 51 Jason Trachewsky 52 Ryuji Kohno Yokohama National University 53 Ismail Lakkis Tensorcom 54 Hind Munzer-Chebbo Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe LTD 55 Jin-Meng Ho 56 Huai-Rong Shao 57 Laurent Ouvry CEA-Leti 58 Abbie Mathew NewLANS 59 Raymond Yu Zhan Panasonic Singapore Lab 60 BeomJin (Paul) Jeon LG Electronics 61 Guido Dolmans IMEC NL 62 Yan Zhang 63 YangMoon Yoon KORPA 64 SungHyup Lee 65 SooHwan Choe 16 Arthur Astrin

Objectives for next few sessions March 2009 Objectives for next few sessions Presentations of proposals Form partnerships, merge proposals Select proposal that accommodates the requirements closest. Drive towards comprehensive Baseline Draft Document (>5/09) Appoint Technical Editors (5/09) Arthur Astrin

Timeline 09 March 2009 v > ^ > Arthur Astrin 2009   2009 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Issue CFP (Call for Proposals) Close CFP (Call for Proposals) v Hear Proposals > ^ Base line >  Technical editorial team in place Technical Comments Resolution Draft ready for Letter Ballot Letter Ballot (#1) Recirculation Letter Ballot (#2) Draft ready for Sponsor Ballot Sponsor Ballot Sponsor Ballot Recirculation WG/SEC approval REVCOM approval Arthur Astrin

Thank You ! Any Questions ? March 2009 Thank You ! Any Questions ? Arthur Astrin

Purpose of Proposed Standard (PAR 07-0575) November 2008 Purpose of Proposed Standard (PAR 07-0575) The purpose of the proposed standard it to provide an international standard for a short range (ie about human body range), low power and highly reliable wireless communication for use in close proximity to, or inside, a human body. Data rates, typically up to 10Mbps, will be offered to satisfy an evolutionary set of entertainment and healthcare services. Current PANs do not meet the medical (proximity to human tissue) and relevant communication regulations for some application environments. They also do not support the combination of reliability (QoS), low power, data rate and noninterference required to broadly address the breadth of body area network applications. Arthur Astrin

Need for the Project (PAR 07-0575) November 2008 Need for the Project (PAR 07-0575) There is a need for a standard optimized for ultra low power devices and operation on, in or around the human body to serve a variety of applications including medical and personal entertainment. Examples of the applications served by the proposed standard are: EEG, ECG, EMG, vital signals monitoring (temperature (wearable thermometer), respiratory, wearable heart rate monitor, wearable pulse oximeter, wearable blood pressure monitor, oxygen, pH value , wearable glucose sensor, implanted glucose sensor, cardiac arrhythmia), wireless capsule endoscope (gastrointestinal), wireless capsule for drug delivery, deep brain stimulator, cortical stimulator (visual neuro-stimulator, audio neuro stimulator, Parkinson’s disease, etc…), remote control of medical devices such as pacemaker, actuators, insulin pump, hearing aid (wearable and implanted), retina implants, disability assistance, such as muscle tension sensing and stimulation, wearable weighing scale, fall detection, aiding sport training. This will include body-centric solutions for future wearable computers. In a similar vein, the same technology can provide effective solutions for personal entertainment as well.The existence of a body area network standard will provide opportunities to expand these product features, better healthcare and well being for the users. It will therefore result in economic opportunity for technology component suppliers and equipment manufacturers. Arthur Astrin