1. September 2009
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: [Report from FSK Breakout Session]
Date Submitted: [September 2009]
Source: [Tim Schmidl] Company [Texas Instruments]
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Abstract: [This is the report from the FSK breakout session]
Purpose: [For information]
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Tim Schmidl, Texas Instruments Inc.

2. FSK Breakout Sept. 23, 2009, 2-6 pm Sept. 24, 11:40am-12:20pm
September 2009
FSK Breakout
Sept. 23, 2009, 2-6 pm
Sept. 24, 11:40am-12:20pm
Tim Schmidl, Texas Instruments Inc.

3. Agenda Major points of differences (Listing and ranking)
September 2009
Agenda
Major points of differences (Listing and ranking)
Capture major commonalities
Capture agreed points
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4. Major Points of Differences
September 2009
MODERATE
CRC (CRC-32 Koopman vs CRC-32)
Data whitening (which algorithm, seed)
Header FEC (mandatory or optional and which FEC) (which BCH (48,24) vs (15,11))
Payload FEC (both agree it is optional but which FEC) (Conv rate ½ or LDPC vs. RS)
Frame structure
Switch frame format on SFD (value, how many)
Fast Hopping
Network ID formats
Rate shifting in the PHY
Modulation parameters
Number of channels / channel spacing
DIFFICULT
Data Rates (which rate is mandatory) (5/10/20/40 and 50/100/200/400 vs 40/(80)/160/320)
Legacy support
Common signaling (MP,NICT)
Interoperability (solve at PHY and/or higher layers)
Tim Schmidl, Texas Instruments Inc.

5. Major Points of Commonality
September 2009
Frequency bands
Japanese data rates (400 and 950 MHz) based on 15.4d
15.4d frame format for Japan with different SFD than used elsewhere
GFSK modulation
BT=0.5 value
Low / medium / high data rate sets
Allows mesh support
Narrowband is supported
1 Mandatory data rate per band
Band adaptation approach
Tim Schmidl, Texas Instruments Inc.

6. Agreed Points (outside of the proposals)
September 2009
Agreed Points (outside of the proposals)
DSSS can be supported
OFDM can be supported
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7. Topics for Further Discussion
September 2009
PHY classes (FSK only, FSK+OFDM, FSK+DSSS, FSK+OFDM+DSSS) OR PNC (piconet controller) capable device or not
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8. Proposed Way Forward (Tentative)
September 2009
CRC (CRC-32 Koopman vs CRC-32)
Straw Poll Result: Further study = = No further study = 0
Steve Pope will facilitate further study of Koopman CRC and Larry will provide contact information for Technical Advisory Group
Data whitening (which polynomial, seed)
Cristina to verify that polynomials in all 3 proposals are the same.
SFF is not transmitting the seed for each packet
MP uses the channel number as input to the seed
CPP has an optional 8 bit seed
Agree that data whitening is important. When frequency hopping the scrambler seed is based on channel number and is not transmitted in the header. Two bits are reserved in the PHY header which are reserved for future use in frequency hopping systems and for the scrambler seed in non-hopping systems.
Header FEC (mandatory or optional and which FEC) (which BCH (48,24,t=4) vs (15,11,t=1))
Header FEC should be significantly more robust than the payload FEC. Whether header FEC is optional or mandatory will be under further study according to the principle that the header error rate should be significantly lower than the payload error rate. [Straw Poll: Optional = 9+13 = 22; Mandatory = 6+9 = 15 ]
Payload FEC (both agree it is optional but which FEC) (Conv rate ½ or LDPC vs. RS)
Continue development of convolutional code and Reed-Solomon code
Frame structure
Switch frame format on SFD (value, how many)
Fast Hopping
Network ID formats
Rate shifting in the PHY
Modulation parameters
Number of channels / channel spacing
Tim Schmidl, Texas Instruments Inc.