doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 1 Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: [ Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS Closing Report ] Date Submitted: [March 15th 2002] Source: [José A. Gutierrez / Pat Kinney] Company: [Eaton Corp / Invensys] Address: [4201 North 27th Street, Milwaukee WI ] Voice:[ ], FAX: [ ], / ] Re: [ Closing Report from St. Louis Plenary Meeting ] Abstract:[A summary of the comment resolution activities for LB13, status and plan for IEEE Task Group 4] Purpose:[Closing Report - St. Louis Plenary Meeting] 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 /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 2 Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS Closing Report Hyatt Regency St. Louis, MO March 15, 2002

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 3 Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS TASK GROUP 4 OBJECTIVES FOR THIS MEETING: 1. CONFERENCE CALL STATUS 2. COMMENT RESOLUTION ON LETTER BALLOT SECURE WORKING GROUP APPROVAL TO MOVE TO RECIRCULATION 4. ZIGBEE RELATIONSHIP 5. INITIATE SPONSOR BALLOT POOL UPDATE 6. OBJECTIVES FOR MAY MEETING

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 4 Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS 74 out of 89 voters returned a ballot 55 voted yes (84.6%) 10 voted no (15.4%) 9 abstained (12.2% of total votes) ballot passed and proceeded on to comment resolution with 650 Comments) Letter Ballot 13 Recap:

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 5 TG4 Team Comment Resolution Status Mar. 14, 2002

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 6 TG4 Editorial Teams Global Edit Clause 5 Edit & Tech MAC Edit & Tech PHY Edit & Tech Coexistence Team Cluster-Tree Team

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 7 PHY Team Comment Resolution Status 130 PHY comments: 127 Comments accepted 3 Comments rejected 0 PHY EDIT comments remaining 1 PHY TECH comment remaining Annex C updates completed

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 8 Major PHY TECH Issues 868 MHz Band: current chip shaping doesn’t allow for full power (regulation allows 25 mW but max power with current shaping would restrict power to 1 mW)

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 9 MAC Team Comment Resolution Status 285 MAC comments: 260 Comments accepted 15 Comments rejected 1 MAC comment remaining

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 10 Major MAC TECH Issues Extra byte in packet to identify MAC Packets New primitives/commands for: Association Disassociation GTS manipulation Authentication as per (IEEE r1)

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 11 Coexistence Team Comment Resolution Status 9 Coexistence comments Basically all focused on the same issue: Coexistence! Text that addresses all commeters concerns was created and accepted

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 12 TG4 Comment Resolution Summary Total Waiting for TR confirmation of some Closed

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 13 TG4 Next Steps 1.Finish draft 14 2.Go to recirculation on April 15 with a 20 day LB 3.Compile results before Sydney meeting 4.Comment resolution at Sydney

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 14 Goals for Sydney Comment Resolution Planning for final recirculation Comments Database

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 15 Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS Project Timeline

doc.: IEEE /156r1 Submission José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney March, 2002 Slide 16 Motion Move to empower TG4 draft committee (José,Rob,Ed,Monique,Phil,Said,Paul,Marco, Farren, Greg) to release draft d14 for recirculation no later than Apr 15, 2002 if it meets unanimous approval of the committee that it is ready (all TRs resolved) Moved by: P. Kinney Seconded by José A. Gutierrez Motion passed: 30/0/0