1. Submission Title: TG6 Closing Report for the Session in September 2008
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: TG6 Closing Report for the Session in September 2008
Date Submitted: September 11, 2008
Source: Arthur Astrin
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Re: TG6 Closing Report for September 2008 Session
Abstract: Closing Report for the TG6 Session in September 2008.
Purpose: To summarize activities during the meeting
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Arthur Astrin (Astrin Radio)

2. 5nd Meeting as a Task Group 6
September 2008
IEEE TG6
Body Area Network
Closing Report
5nd Meeting as a Task Group 6
Waikoloa, HI
11 September, 2008
Arthur Astrin

3. September 2008
Session Results
Reviewed and Approved TG6 Application Summary Document
Review of Application Summary Document by Continua (Srinath Hosur)
Review by Medtronic
Reviewed and Approved TG6 Regulatory Document
Reviewed TG6 Channel Model Document
Reviewed TG6 Technical Requirements Document
Started drafting Call for Proposal (CFP), need to add Comparison Criteria
Arthur Astrin

4. CFI Respondents – Audited: 080716
September 2008
CFI Respondents – Audited:
Name
Affiliation 1
Huan-Bang Li
NICT 2
Omeni Okundu
Tomaz 3
Dino Minutti
NICTA 4
Tatsuo Nakagawa
Hitachi 5
Ruben de Francisco
IMEC NL 6
Olivier Rousseaux
TBD 7
Maulin Patel
Philips 8
John Farserotu
CSEM 9
Jaehwan Kim
ETRI 10
Jung-hwan Hwang 11
Sung Weon Kang 12
Hyung-il Park 13
Frederick Martin
Motorola 14
Alireza Seyedi
University of Rochester 15
Gang Ding
Olympus 16
Ida Ichiro
Fujitsu 17
Jean Schwoerer
France Telecom 18
Kyung Sup Kwak 
Inha University, Korea 19
Seok Ho Kim   20
Youjin Kim 21
Li Huang 22
Dong Kyoo Kim 23
Seung-Moon Ryu
Casuh Corp 24
Bin Zhen 25
Jerome Rousselot 26
Kiran Bynam
Samsung Electronics 27
Feng Shu 28
Shinsuke Hara 29
Jahng Sun Park 30
Giriraj Goyal 31
Seung-Hoon Park 32
Eun Tae Won 33
Chihong Cho 34
Wan-Cheol Yang
Samsung Electro-Mechanics 35
Seong-Jun Song 36
Daniel Lewis
NICTA 37
Seung Hyong Rhee
Kwangwoon University 38
Sang-Yub Lee
Samsung Electro-Mechanics 39
Noh-Gyoung Kang
Samsung Electronics 40
Marco Hernandez
NICT 41
Igor Dotlic 42
Anuj Batra
Texas Instruments 43
June Seung Yoon
City University of New York 44
Kamran Sayrafian
NIST 45
Tetsushi Ikegami
Meiji University 46
Ranjeet Kumar Patro 47
Sungrae Cho
Chung-Ang University 48
Kenichi Takizawa 49
Changle Li 50
Michael Mc Laughlin
DecaWave Ltd. 51
Didier Sagan
Zarlink 52
Arnaud Tonnerre
THALES Communications 53
Amal Ekbal
Qualcomm 54
James Spoto
Kairos Microsystems 55
Christopher Hansen
Broadcom Corporation 56
Jason Trachewsky 57
Ryuji Kohno
Yokohama National University 58
Ismail Lakkis
Tensorcom 59
Hind Munzer-Chebbo
Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe LTD 60
Jin-Meng Ho 61
Huai-Rong Shao 62
Laurent Ouvry
CEA-Leti 63
Abbie Mathew
NewLANS 64
Raymond Yu Zhan
Panasonic Singapore Lab 65
BeomJin (Paul) Jeon
LG Electronics 66
Guido Dolmans
IMEC NL 67
Hans Pflug 68
Yan Zhang 69
YangMoon Yoon
KORPA 70
SungHyup Lee 71
SooHwan Choe
Arthur Astrin

5. September 2008
Welcome
Medtronic
Arthur Astrin

6. Timeline 08 – September update
2009 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6
TG CFA (Call for Applications)
Application Summary Document
Channel Model
>
CFI (Call for Intent) ^
Channel Measurement ready in September
9/30
Channel Model Document ready
10/15
Issue CFP (Call for Proposals)  ^
Close CFP
Hear Proposals
Base line selection
Technical editorial team in place
Technical Comments Resolution
Arthur Astrin

7. Plans for November 2008 meeting
September 2008
Plans for November 2008 meeting
TRD document approval
Channel Model document approval
Issue Call for Proposals (CFP)
Have regular teleconferences on Wednesdays
Next call: Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Arthur Astrin

8. Thank You ! Any Questions ?
September 2008
Thank You !
Any Questions ?
Arthur Astrin

9. Purpose of Proposed Standard (PAR 07-0575)
September 2008
Purpose of Proposed Standard (PAR )
The purpose of the proposed standard it to provide an international standard for a short range (ie about human body range), low power and highly reliable wireless communication for use in close proximity to, or inside, a human body. Data rates, typically up to 10Mbps, will be offered to satisfy an evolutionary set of entertainment and healthcare services. Current PANs do not meet the medical (proximity to human tissue) and relevant communication regulations for some application environments. They also do not support the combination of reliability (QoS), low power, data rate and noninterference required to broadly address the breadth of body area network applications.
Arthur Astrin

10. Need for the Project (PAR 07-0575)
September 2008
Need for the Project (PAR )
There is a need for a standard optimized for ultra low power devices and operation on, in or around the human body to serve a variety of applications including medical and personal entertainment. Examples of the applications served by the proposed standard are: EEG, ECG, EMG, vital signals monitoring (temperature (wearable thermometer), respiratory, wearable heart rate monitor, wearable pulse oximeter, wearable blood pressure monitor, oxygen, pH value , wearable glucose sensor, implanted glucose sensor, cardiac arrhythmia), wireless capsule endoscope (gastrointestinal), wireless capsule for drug delivery, deep brain stimulator, cortical stimulator (visual neuro-stimulator, audio neuro stimulator, Parkinson’s disease, etc…), remote control of medical devices such as pacemaker, actuators, insulin pump, hearing aid (wearable and implanted), retina implants, disability assistance, such as muscle tension sensing and stimulation, wearable weighing scale, fall detection, aiding sport training. This will include body-centric solutions for future wearable computers. In a similar vein, the same technology can provide effective solutions for personal entertainment as well.The existence of a body area network standard will provide opportunities to expand these product features, better healthcare and well being for the users. It will therefore result in economic opportunity for technology component suppliers and equipment manufacturers.
Arthur Astrin