1. November 18
September 2009
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: TG4e Closing Report for Waikoloa September 2009
Date Submitted: September 2009
Source: Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC
Contact: Pat Kinney, Kinney Consulting LLC
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Re: TG4e Closing Report for September 2009 Session
Abstract: Opening Report for the TG4e Session in Waikoloa, HI
Purpose: Amendments to IEEE MAC
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2. TG4e PAR Scope of Proposed Standard
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September 2009
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. November 18
September 2009
Meeting Goals
Editor and subgroup review all comments solicited on preliminary draft
Subgroups to work on resolving comments
Hear further presentations on proposals
Subgroups agree on changes to their sections
Editors collect all changes into draft of amendment
TG4e votes as to draft’s readiness for WG letter ballot
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September 2009
TG4e Meetings This Week
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
AM1
TSCH subgroup
AM2
Opening Logistics, response from preliminary review
Beacon Request Payload and Blink
PM1
Low Energy Subgroup
EGTS & Factory Automation Subgroup
Channel Diversity subgroup
Review Draft, vote on going to WG LB, closing logistics
PM2
Joint meeting w/TG4f and TG4g
Long message durations, ETSI revisions
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6. 802.15.4 MAC September 2009 Factory Automation ISA, HCF
Contention-Free
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
September 2009
Technical Editing Path Forward
Coordination between proposal editors and subgroups with goal of unification or harmonization of changes
Collect all changes into rough draft of amendment
TG ballot of rough draft
Comment resolution effort
Final draft of TG4e amendment
WG ballot of draft
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8. Editing Assignments September 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. Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule
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September 2009
Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule
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10. September 2009
Conference Calls
Tuesday 6 October at 6:00 PDT, 9:00 EDT, 15:00 CEST, 22:00 Tokyo
Call details are: , participant access code: