Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: Technical requirements of non-medical applications Date Submitted: 18 th March 2008 Source: Ranjeet Kumar Patro, Kiran Bynam, Giriraj Goyal Contact: Ranjeet Kumar Patro Voice: , Re: Abstract: The document observes the key QoS requirement of non-medical applications and captures Body Area Network specific challenges and issues in attaining the Key QoS. It also mentions another class of applications called implant but non- medical and captures its requirements. Purpose: To capture and add new technical requirements to TR document of TG6 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 maybe made publicly available by P March 2008 doc.:IEEE Submission Slide 1 Ranjeet K. Patro

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 2 Submission Non-medical applications  Interactive Gaming  Social network  Body posture detection  Video Glasses  Tracking/Monitoring Application  Headset  E-charm  Motion/Gesture capture  Sports/Fitness doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 3 Submission Implant But Non-medical  Sub-dermal RF devices – VeriChip TM [1] Smartcard for clubs in Spain and Netherland (  Human-Tracking - Digital Angel TM [2] Rescue beacon for kidnapped and missing persons and monitoring parolees E-commerce security  Mexican official gets chipped [3]  Human-Computer interaction - Professor Kevin Warwick’s experiment [4] doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 4 Submission Service CategoryApplicationsKey QoS Requirement Real-time Text Data Transfer Interactive Games Sports/Fitness Motion/Gesture capture Gaming Control Timeliness Real-time Audio Headphones Entertainment Applications Timeliness Real-time Video Video Glasses Video Headset Timeliness File or Text Data Transfer Data Storage Remote Display CE Control Reliability Implanted active tags for non- medical application Energy Efficiency Confidential or Private DataSmart Key Sports/Fitness Implanted passive RFID tag with personal and financial information Security or Privacy Services doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 5 Submission Timeliness [3] & [4] MeasureInteractive Games et al. Real-time AudioReal-time Video Delay<250 ms<150 ms preferred <400 ms limit for conversational Audio < 1 sec for Audio Messaging < 10 sec for Audio Streaming <150 ms preferred <400 ms limit for conversational Video Relaxed for - Video Messaging - Video Streaming Delay Variation Less Sensitive< 1 ms Can be removed by means of buffering TBD Inter-media Skew N.A < 100 ms doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 6 Submission Timeliness Cont’d Challenges:  Overcoming delay variation requirement doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 7 Submission Reliability Requirement:  Information loss should be as low as possible (towards zero) Challenges:  Continuous change in channel conditions  Interference from other networks  Achieving high reliability with low power consumption is a design challenge doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 8 Submission Energy Efficiency Requirement:  Processing + Reception + Transmission power should be minimum Challenges:  Maintaining energy efficiency with medium/high data rate and achieving real- time QoS  Design of single MAC for medical and non- medical applications doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 9 Submission Security and Privacy Requirement: Strong security protocols for  Confidentiality  Authentication  Integrity and replay protection Challenges: Strong security protocols require  High computation  More communication: Extra roundtrips means more power consumption doc.:IEEE

March 2008 Ranjeet K. PatroSlide 10 Submission References /07/ /07/ ITU-T Recommendation G.114 “One-way transmission time”, “Human perception of jitter and media synchronisation”, R. Steinmetz, IEEE JSAC Vol 14, No. 1, Jan 1996 doc.:IEEE