doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 1 Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: [October 1394-Wireless Working Group Liaison Report] Date Submitted: [October, 2003] Source: [Allen D. Heberling] Company [XtremeSpectrum] Address [8133 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA 22182, USA] Voice:[ ], FAX: [ ], Re: Abstract:[This submission reports the activities of interest to the IEEE Working Group] Purpose:[To provide the IEEE working group with information regarding the activities of the 1394-WWG.] Notice:This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P 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 P

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 2 October-1394-WWG-Liaison-Report

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 3 Accomplishments Draft P has increased from a 27 page document in April 2003 to a 77 page document as of the October Plenary meeting, specifing these topics: –Subaction encapsulation –Virtual bus management –Transaction services –Cycle time synchronization

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 4 Accomplishments continued … Draft P Topics continued… –Isochronous connection management –Stream Operations –Control and status registers (CSRs) –Configuration ROM

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 5 Accomplishments continued … MSCs have been developed to illustrate these 1394/15.3 PAL primitives and signals –PAL-JOIN.req/cfm –PAL-LEAVE.req/cfm –PAL-RENEW.req/cfm –PAL-STREAM-DATA.req/ind

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 6 Activities Recent –Early September Interim Meeting ( 2.5 days ) –October Plenary Meeting ( 2 days ). –Bi-weekly conference calls since October Meeting

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 7 Issues Have identified MAC issues needing clarification or requiring enhancements to the 15.3 MAC –New parameter(s) for MLME-SCAN.cfm: Range parameter indicating distance to PNCs –New MLME primitives for enabling a synchronization ASIE in the 15.3 Beacon –Clarification regarding the ASIE behavior –Request changes to the Handover criteria hierarchy

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 8 Project Time Line 2 day Interim meeting scheduled for early December(4/5) Location: Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA 1 st Quarterly Plenary meeting scheduled for January 19-22, 2004, 2 days Tenative Interim meeting in early March, 2004.

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 9 Project Time Line continued … 2 nd Quarterly Plenary meeting scheduled for March 29-April 1, 2004, 2 days. We should be ready to release the draft for a 40 day letter ballot(LB) review. Interim meeting in mid to late May to resolve LB comments and make edits to draft. Release draft for a 10 day recirculation letter ballot Submit draft 1394/15.3 PAL specification to 1394ta board for approval and publication

doc.: IEEE / Submission October, 2003 Allen D. Heberling, XtremeSpectrumSlide 10 Summary 1394-WWG has made significant progress since April, 2003 in specifying a 1394/15.3 Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) WWG is on track to submit the draft 1394/15.3 PAL specification to letter ballot by early 2 nd quarter 2004.