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José A. Gutierrez/ Pat Kinney

Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

Submission Title: [Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS Closing Report]Date Submitted: [March 15th 2002]Source: [José A. Gutierrez / Pat Kinney] Company: [Eaton Corp / Invensys]Address: [4201 North 27th Street, Milwaukee WI. 53216]Voice:[414-4496525], FAX: [414-4496131], E-Mail:[[email protected] / [email protected]]

Re: [ Closing Report from St. Louis Plenary Meeting ]

Abstract: [A summary of the comment resolution activities for LB13, status and plan for IEEE802.15 Task Group 4]

Purpose: [Closing Report - St. Louis Plenary Meeting]

Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. 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.

Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P802.15.

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Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANSClosing Report

Hyatt Regency

St. Louis, MO

March 15, 2002

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Task Group 4 Low Rate WPANS

TASK GROUP 4 OBJECTIVES FOR THIS MEETING:

1. CONFERENCE CALL STATUS

2. COMMENT RESOLUTION ON LETTER BALLOT 13

3. SECURE WORKING GROUP APPROVAL TO MOVE TO RECIRCULATION

4. ZIGBEE RELATIONSHIP

5. INITIATE SPONSOR BALLOT POOL UPDATE

6. OBJECTIVES FOR MAY MEETING

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• 74 out of 89 voters returned a ballot

• 55 voted yes (84.6%)

• 10 voted no (15.4%)

• 9 abstained (12.2% of total votes)

ballot passed and proceeded on to

comment resolution with 650 Comments)

Letter Ballot 13 Recap:

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TG4 Team Comment Resolution Status

Mar. 14, 2002

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TG4 Editorial Teams

• Global Edit

• Clause 5 Edit & Tech

• MAC Edit & Tech

• PHY Edit & Tech

• Coexistence Team

• Cluster-Tree Team

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PHY Team Comment Resolution Status

130 PHY comments:

•127 Comments accepted

• 3 Comments rejected

• 0 PHY EDIT comments remaining

• 1 PHY TECH comment remaining

• Annex C updates completed

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Major PHY TECH Issues

• 868 MHz Band: current chip shaping doesn’t allow for full power (regulation allows 25 mW but max power with current shaping would restrict power to 1 mW)

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MAC Team Comment Resolution Status

285 MAC comments:

• 260 Comments accepted

• 15 Comments rejected

• 1 MAC comment remaining

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Major MAC TECH Issues• Extra byte in packet to identify MAC Packets• New primitives/commands for:

• Association

• Disassociation

• GTS manipulation

• Authentication as per (IEEE 802.15-130r1)

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Coexistence Team Comment Resolution Status

9 Coexistence comments

Basically all focused on the same issue:

Coexistence!

Text that addresses all commeters concerns was

created and accepted

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TG4 Comment Resolution Summary

%97.99650

648

Total

Waiting for TR confirmation of

some

Closed

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TG4 Next Steps

1. Finish draft 14

2. Go to recirculation on April 15 with a 20 day LB

3. Compile results before Sydney meeting

4. Comment resolution at Sydney

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Goals for Sydney - 2002

• Comment Resolution

• Planning for final recirculation

• Comments Database

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Press ReleaseCall for application 11/09/00Call for proposal intent 12/1/00Call for proposal by 01/17/00 xSelection criteria doc created by 01/01 xStart decision process by 03/01. xPresent proposals 03/01 x x xWorking proposal selected by the 07/01 x

Low rate pocket guide (book). x x x x x x x x x =>Proposal draft completed by 11/01. x x x x x1st letter ballot completed by 01/02. x x xResolution of comments by 03/02. x x xRe-circulations completed by 07/02. x x x xSponsor ballot completed by 11/02. x x x x

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Project Timeline

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Motion Move to empower TG4 draft committee

(José,Rob,Ed,Monique,Phil,Said,Paul,Marco, Farren, Greg) to release draft d14 for recirculation no later than Apr 15, 2002 if it meets unanimous approval of the committee that it is ready (all TRs resolved)

Moved by: P. Kinney

Seconded by José A. Gutierrez

Motion passed: 30/0/0

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