1. November 2004
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [San Antonio Closing Report]
Date Submitted: [18 November, 2004]
Source: [Robert Poor] Company [Ember Corporation]
Address [343 Congress Street, Boston MA USA]
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Re: [Contribution for b PAR]
Abstract: [TG4b Closing Report]
Purpose: [Report to Closing Plenary Meeting, 19 November, 2004]
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.
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Robert Poor, Ember Corporation

2. November 2004
TG4b Scope
[TG4b] will define enhancements and corrections to the existing standard. The revised standard will be backward compatible with IEEE P
The considered enhancements shall be limited to:
A method for shared time-base distribution.
Support for new frequency allocations for Europe, China, and Japan.
Extension of 2.4GHz derivative modulation yielding higher data rates for the lower frequency bands.
Mechanism for communicating the revision level.
The considered corrections are:
Resolving ambiguities.
Removing unnecessary complexity, such as making GTS support optional and eliminating BUSY_RX, BUSY_TX, and FORCE_TRX_OFF from the PHY enumerations.
Resolving issues such as long association time for non-beacon networks, inflexible security use, adding support for multicast, reducing MAC overhead and MAC header compression.
[Ref: IEEE b]
Robert Poor, Ember Corporation

3. November 2004
TG4b Purpose
The purpose of this revision is to extend the market applicability of IEEE and to remove ambiguities in the standard. Implementations of the current approved standard have revealed potential areas of improvements. Additional frequency bands are being made available in various countries that are attractive for this application space.
[Ref: IEEE b]
Robert Poor, Ember Corporation

4. Objectives & Accomplishments
November 2004
Objectives & Accomplishments
Discuss, Review, Organize and Edit existing MAC proposals
Comment database: b
Resolved 22 out of 24 comments.
Discuss, Review, Organize and Edit existing PHY proposals
PHY plan: b
PSSS, COBI both optional sub-GHz PHYs
Discuss, Review, Organize and Edit existing Security proposals
Security Comments: b
Adopted 9 of the refinements.
Prepare Task Group motion for draft approval
Deferred to Montery.
Prepare Working Group motion for draft approval
Revise Project Plan
Updated schedule in b
Other Documents
Minutes in b
Version Mechanism: b
Beacon Scheduling: b
Robert Poor, Ember Corporation