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Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title: Technical requirements of non-medical applications
Date Submitted: November 20, 2007
Source: Ranjeet Kumar Patro, Kiran Bynam, Giriraj Goyal
Contact: Ranjeet Kumar Patro
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Abstract: The document observes the key QoS requirement of non-medical applications and captures Body Area Network specific challenges and issues in attaining the Key QoS. It also mentions another class of applications called implant but non-medical and captures its requirements.
Purpose: To capture and add new technical requirements to TR document of TG6
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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Submission
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2. Non-medical applications
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Non-medical applications
Interactive Gaming
Social network
Body posture detection
Video Glasses
Tracking/Monitoring Application
Headset
E-charm
Motion/Gesture capture
Sports/Fitness
Submission
Slide 2
Ranjeet K. Patro

3. Implant But Non-medical
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Implant But Non-medical
Sub-dermal RF devices – VeriChipTM [1]
Smartcard for clubs in Spain and Netherland
Secondary ID for financial purposes
Human-Tracking - Digital AngelTM [2]
E-commerce security
Rescue beacon for kidnapped beacon and missing persons
Mexican official gets chipped [3]
Human-Computer interaction - Professor Kevin Warwick’s experiment [4]
Submission
Slide 3
Ranjeet K. Patro

4. Services doc.:IEEE802.15-08-0153-00-0006 March 2008 Service Category
Applications
Key QoS Requirement
Real-time Text Data Transfer
Interactive Games
Sports/Fitness
Motion/Gesture capture
Gaming Control
Timeliness
Real-time Audio
Headphones
Entertainment Applications
Real-time Video
Video Glasses
Video Headset
File or Text Data Transfer
Data Storage
Remote Display
CE Control
Reliability
Implanted active tags for non-medical application
Energy Efficiency
Confidential or Private Data
Smart Key
Implanted passive RFID tag with personal and financial information
Security or Privacy
Submission
Slide 4
Ranjeet K. Patro

5. Interactive Games et al. Real-time Audio Real-time Video
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Timeliness [3] & [4]
Measure
Interactive Games et al.
Real-time Audio
Real-time Video
Delay
<250 ms
<150 ms preferred
<400 ms limit
for conversational Audio
< 1 sec for Audio Messaging
< 10 sec for Audio Streaming
<400 ms limit
for conversational Video
Relaxed for
Video Messaging
Video Streaming
Delay Variation
Less Sensitive
< 1 ms
Can be removed by means of buffering
TBD
Inter-media
Skew
N.A
< 100 ms
Submission
Slide 5
Ranjeet K. Patro

6. Challenges: Overcoming delay variation requirement Timeliness Cont’d
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Timeliness Cont’d
Challenges:
Overcoming delay variation requirement
Submission
Slide 6
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7. Requirement: Challenges:
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Reliability
Requirement:
Information loss should be as low as possible (towards zero)
Challenges:
Continuous change in channel conditions
Interference from other networks
Achieving high reliability with low power consumption is a design challenge
Submission
Slide 7
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8. Requirement: Challenges:
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Energy Efficiency
Requirement:
Processing + Reception + Transmission power should be minimum
Challenges:
Maintaining energy efficiency with medium/high data rate
Design of single MAC for medical and non-medical applications
Submission
Slide 8
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9. Strong security protocols for Confidentiality Authentication
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Security and Privacy
Requirement:
Strong security protocols for
Confidentiality
Authentication
Integrity and replay protection
Challenges:
Strong security protocols require
High computation
More communication: Extra roundtrips means more power consumption
Submission
Slide 9
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10. ITU-T Recommendation G.114 “One-way transmission time”, 1996
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References
ITU-T Recommendation G.114 “One-way transmission time”, 1996
“Human perception of jitter and media synchronisation”, R. Steinmetz, IEEE JSAC Vol 14, No. 1, Jan 1996
Submission
Slide 10
Ranjeet K. Patro