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November 2009
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: TG4e Closing Report for Atlanta November 2009
Date Submitted: November 2009
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Re: TG4e Closing Report for November 2009 Session
Abstract: Opening Report for the TG4e Session in Atlanta, GA
Purpose: Amendments to IEEE MAC
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2. TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
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TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
The intention of this amendment is to enhance and add functionality to the MAC to a) better support the industrial markets and b) permit compatibility with modifications being proposed within the Chinese WPAN.
Specifically, the MAC enhancements are limited to:
TDMA: to provide a) determinism, b) enhanced utilization of bandwidth
Channel Hopping: to provide additional robustness in high interfering environments and enhance coexistence with other wireless networks
GTS: to increase its flexibility such as a) supporting peer to peer, b) the length of the slot, and c) number of slots
CSMA: to improve throughput and reduce energy consumption
Security: to add support for additional options such as asymmetrical keys
Low latency: to reduce end to end delivery time such as needed for control applications
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3. Purpose of Proposed Standard
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Purpose of Proposed Standard
This functionality facilitates Industrial applications (such as addressed by HART 7 and the ISA100 proposed standards), and those enhancements defined by the proposed Chinese WPAN standard that aren't included in TG4c. This amendment addresses coexistence with wireless protocols such as , , , and
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4. Meeting Goals Resolve any TG4f and TG4g open MAC technical issues
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Meeting Goals
Resolve any TG4f and TG4g open MAC technical issues
Review text output of subgroups
Review all sections of preliminary draft ( )
Ultimate goal is to be ready for WG letter ballot, i.e.:
No technical TBDs
Technical changes to the draft need to be defined in an uploaded document
Formatted as per IEEE-SA Styles manual
Baseline draft available one week before session on document site
75% affirmation to go to WG for letter ballot
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5. doc.: IEEE 802.15-<doc#>
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November 2009
TG4e Meetings This Week
Mtg
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
AM1
EGTS &TSCH Review
AM2
Factory Automation & Header Reduction
PM1
Channel Diversity Review
Low Energy Fast Assoc Review
Secure ACK and Extensible FCF Review
PM2
Opening Remarks, Low Energy Review
Joint Mtg w/4f, 4g
Blink Frame Review
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6. 802.15.4 MAC November 2009 Factory Automation ISA, HCF Contention-Free
E-GTS
TDMA
ZigBee,
Contention Access
Contention Access
beacon-enabled PAN
nonbeacon-enabled PAN
Overhead Reduction/Security
Low Energy
Channel Diversity
MAC
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7. Technical Editing Path Forward
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Technical Editing Path Forward
Collect all changes into rough draft of amendment
TG review/comment of rough draft
Comment resolution effort
Final draft of TG4e amendment
WG ballot of draft
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8. Editing Assignments November 2009 Subgroup Proposal Lead Editor EGTS
Myung Lee
Liang Li
TSCH
Jonathon Simon/Kuor-Hsin Chang
Ludwig Winkel
Factory Automation
Michael Bahr
Zafer Sahinoglu
Channel Diversity
Wun-Cheol Jeong
Overhead Reduction
Rene Struik
Low Energy
Wei Hong/Greg Gillooly
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9. TG4e Schedule Technical resolutions complete Nov 2009
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November 2009
TG4e Schedule
Technical resolutions complete Nov 2009
Editing complete Jan 2010
Work Group first Ballot Feb 2010
Resolve comments & reballot Apr 2010
Resolve comments & final reballot Jun 2010
Sponsor Ballot Jul 2010
Comment resolution & reballot Oct 2010
IEEE RevCom approval Dec 2010
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10. November 2009
Conference Calls
Tuesday 1 December at 6:00 PST, 9:00 EST, 15:00 CET, 23:00 Tokyo
Call details are: , participant access code:
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