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Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [TG4e Closing Report for March 2009 Session]
Date Submitted: [12 March 2009]
Source: [Patrick Kinney] Company [Kinney Consulting LLC]
Address [Chicago area, IL, USA]
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Re: [TG4e Closing Report for March 2009 Session.]
Abstract: [Closing Report for the TG4e Session in Vancouver, Canada]
Purpose: [Amendments to IEEE MAC]
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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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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Meeting Goals
Sub-Groups to present:
Anticipated Changes to Standard
Backward Compatibility Description
Application Support Levels
TG4e will select those efforts to either move forward, reformulate their proposed effort, or to discontinue the effort
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TG4e Meetings This Week
Mtg
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
AM1
Discussion
(Plaza B)
AM2
EGTS Presentation
PM1
TSCH Presentation
Chan Diversity Presentation &
Overhead Reduction
Presentation
Discussion/Closing
(Plaza C)
PM2
Opening Remarks
(plaza B, 2nd floor)
Fact. Auto. Presentation
Low Energy
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6. 802.15.4 E-GTS Factory Automation TSCH Low Energy
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E-GTS
Contention-Free
Contention-Free
Factory Automation
TSCH
ISA, HCF
beacon-enabled PAN mode
Non-beacon-enabled PAN mode
Contention Access
ZigBee,
Behavior unique to specific PAN modes
Contention Access
Behavior common to all PAN modes
Low Energy
Overhead Reduction/Security
Channel Diversity
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7. Technical Editing Path Forward
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Technical Editing Path Forward
Editor and subgroup work on each proposal to provide necessary detail as to specific changes to
Subgroups work with other subgroups to merge their proposals
Coordination between proposal editors and subgroups with goal of unification/harmonization of changes
Collect all changes into rough draft of amendment
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8. Editor Assignments Sub-Group Lead Editor Enhanced GTS M Lee L Li
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Editor Assignments
Sub-Group
Lead
Editor
Enhanced GTS
M Lee
L Li
Time Slot Chan Hop
C S Kang
L Winkel
Factory Automation
M Bahr
Z Sahinoglu
Channel Diversity
W C Jeong
Overhead Reduction
R Struik
Low Energy
W Hong
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9. Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule
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Proposed TG4e Baseline Schedule
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