August, 2002 IEEE P802.15-02/366r2
IEEE P802.15
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Title / Conference Call Minutes Vancouver to Monterey
Date Submitted / [29 August 2002]
Source / [Leonard E. Miller]
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Re: / 802.15.3 ALT PHY Study Group Conference Call
Abstract / Minutes of the ALT PHY Study Group Conference Calls During July to September 2002
Purpose / Minutes of the ALT PHY Study Group Conference Calls
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CONTENTS
Call on 8 August 2002
Call on 19 August 2002
Call on 29 August 2002
MINUTES OF SG3a CONFERENCE CALL ON 8 AUGUST 2002
A conference call meeting of the Alt-PHY Study Group of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group was held on August 8, 2002, hosted by XtremeSpectrum. The meeting began at 6:00 PM EDT.
1. Participation.
The following 15 people participated in the meeting:
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Roberto Aiello, General Atomics
Stan Bottoms, Time Domain
Chuck Brabenac, Intel
Soo-Young Chang, U. Suwon/UC Davis
Mary DuVal, Texas Instruments
Michael Dydyk, Motorola
Jason Ellis, General Atomics
Jeff Foerster, Intel
Joy Kelly, Time Domain
Len Miller, NIST
Chiu Ngo, Philips
Rick Roberts, XtremeSpectrum
Mike Seals, Intersil
Kai Siwiak, Time Domain
Srinivasa Somayazulu, Intel
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2. Agenda
The chairman, Rick Roberts, called the meeting to order at 6:05 PM EDT. He introduced Leonard (“Len”) Miller of NIST, who volunteered to act as secretary of the study group in place of Matt Welborn. The following agenda for the rest of the meeting was agreed to:
September Meeting Tentative Agenda (Rick Roberts)
Outline of Officer Voting Procedure (Rick Roberts)
Discussion on Work Methodology (Kai/Jason)
Technical Editing 02/105
Closing
3. September Meeting Agenda
Arrangements for the September interim meeting of the Working Group (WG) in Monterey were discussed. It was agreed to request the WG for eleven sessions involving SG3a:
- One joint opening session with the WG
- One session to work on the PAR and Five Criteria document
- One session to discuss a call for proposals (CFP)
- One session for various presentations
- Two sessions for technical editing of the Technical Requirements (02/104) and Selection Criteria (02/105) documents
- Two sessions for discussion/editing of a proposal evaluation matrix
- Two sessions for discussion of channel models
It was agreed not to pursue a joint meeting with the 802.19 TAG to consider coexistence issues at this time, and to avoid the use of the evenings for meetings.
4. Officer Voting Procedure
Rick plans to publish the procedure for electing officers suggested by the leadership group on the email exploder. This procedure is based on the request of the WG for SG3a to submit a recommended slate of candidates to the WG pursuant to applying for Task Group status for the group, and involves the following steps:
- Explain that the voting is on a recommendation to the WG
- Accept nominations from the floor in addition to the current officers (Note: the WG wants letters from their companies endorsing the necessary time commitments of the Chair and Technical Editor offices).
- Take a secret ballot and record the numerical results
- Form a slate of the candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each office
- Take a ballot to determine the degree of support for the slate
- Report these results to the WG and present a motion that the WG make the actions of the SG official
The plan is to hold this voting on Wednesday of the interim meeting and to present the results to the WG on Friday. The actual transition to the officers who are selected will not take place until the group is recognized as a TG, expected in January.
Rick agreed to ask the WG chair, Bob Heile, to explain on the email reflector why a vote on officers is desirable at this time.
5. Work Methodology
The Technical Editor, Kai, and the Alternate Technical Editor, Jason, thanked those who contributed editorial comments via email. Jason indicated that the technical editors plan to encourage more comments by highlighting different clauses or sections each week via email, while keeping the whole documents open.
It was the consensus of the participants that a mixture of email and conference calls devoted to technical editing is desirable. The following dates and times were agreed upon for these editing conference calls: 8/19/02, 11 AM EDT (Intel hosting) and 9/3/02, 6 PM EDT (Motorola hosting). These calls are in addition to the previously scheduled general conference call on 8/29/02 at 11 AM EDT.
6. Technical Editing
There was not enough time to do technical editing.
7. Closing
The meeting closed at 6:50 PM EDT.
MINUTES OF SG3a CONFERENCE CALL ON 19 AUGUST 2002
A technical editing conference call meeting of the Alt-PHY Study Group of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group was held on August 19, 2002, hosted by Intel. The meeting began at 11:00 AM EDT.
1. Participation.
The following 12 people participated in the meeting:
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Roberto Aiello, General Atomics
Jay Bain, Time Domain
Stan Bottoms, Time Domain
Anand Dabak, Texas Instruments
Michael Dydyk, Motorola
Jason Ellis, General Atomics
Ranjit Gharupey, Texas Instruments
Jeyhan Karaoguz, Broadcom
Len Miller, NIST
Rick Roberts, XtremeSpectrum
Kai Siwiak, Time Domain
Srinivasa Somayazulu, Intel
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2. Agenda
The technical editor, Kai Siwiak, and alternate technical editor, Jason Ellis, called the meeting to order at 11:04 AM EDT. The following agenda for the rest of the meeting was agreed to:
Technical Editing 02/105r14
- Section 5.3
- Section 5.5
- Section 5.6
3. Editing of Section 5.3
The interference scenario and accompanying text proposed by Stan were found acceptable, with certain clarifications.
There was a consensus to allow the proposer to stipulate the system’s performance in an AWGN free-space channel but to indicate the desirability of using the multipath channel model that will be adopted by the study group.
Concerning the description of system performance, there was a consensus to include both BER and PER. If the proposer wishes to include data on acquisition performance, that would be useful additional information.
4. Closing
The time of the call expiring at 12:00 noon EDT, the editing session closed with thanks to Intel for hosting the call.
MINUTES OF SG3a CONFERENCE CALL ON 29 AUGUST 2002
A conference call meeting of the Alt-PHY Study Group of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group was held on August 29, 2002, hosted by XtremeSpectrum. The meeting began at 11:00 AM EDT.
1. Participation.
The following 22 people participated in the meeting:
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Roberto Aiello, General Atomics
Jay Bain, Time Domain
Edul Batliwala, Compaq
Stan Bottoms, Time Domain
Chuck Brabenac, Intel
Mary DuVal, Texas Instruments
Jason Ellis, General Atomics
Sorin Goldenberg, Wisair
Kerry Greer, Skycroft
Allen Heberling, XtremeSpectrum
Jeyhan Karaoguz, Broadcom
Joy Kelly, Time Domain
Len Miller, NIST
Chiu Ngo, Philips
Knute Oldman, XtremeSpectrum
Rick Roberts, XtremeSpectrum
Gadi Shor, Wisair
Bill Shvodian, XtremeSpectrum
Kai Siwiak, Time Domain
Srinivasa Somayazulu, Intel
Matt Welborn, XtremeSpectrum
Richard Wilson, IDMicro
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2. Agenda
The chairman, Rick Roberts, called the meeting to order at 11:05 AM EDT. The following agenda for the meeting was agreed to:
September Meeting Agenda Review (Rick Roberts)
Update on Status of PAR (Rick Roberts)
Update on Officer Voting (Rick Roberts)
Technical Editing 02/105 (Technical Editors)
Closing
3. September Meeting Agenda
The current agenda for the September meeting of 802.15 in Monterey is posted as document 02/341r1. A cleaned up version will be posted soon as 02/341r2.
4. Status of PAR
The PAR and 5 Criteria document (02/103) successfully passed the scrutiny of the 802.15 advisory committee and will be presented to the working group in September for approval. Certain minor revisions were made and are reflected in document 02/103r9.
5. Officer Voting
The following procedure was suggested for officer voting at the September meeting:
- Suggest ballot reflect all four officer positions (vote for chair, vice-chair, technical editor, and secretary) on one ballot
- Individuals can be candidates for more than one officer position. For example, Joe Blow can run for both Chair and Vice-Chair; in that case, Joe Blow will be awarded the highest ranking office that he wins. Order of ranking: Chair, Vice-Chair, Technical Editor, Secretary.
- Winner wins by simple plurality.
- All ballots must be signed but are sealed after counting. Signed ballots record the voter pool.
- Ballot counting will be done after the voting session and the results posted once the ballot committee has finished. A percentage approval vote will be taken on the slate.
By consensus, the following modifications to the voting procedure were agreed to:
- Have votes on the individual offices, sequentially, rather than taking one ballot. Prior to each ballot in this process, the results of the previous ballot will be announced.
- The winning candidate must win 50%+1 (majority) of the vote (ignoring abstentions). In the case where no candidate gets 50%+1 of the vote then there will be a runoff ballot between the two top candidates with the expectation that one candidate will get a majority.
- An individual can declare himself a candidate for more than one office prior to the deadline for nominations. The list of all the candidates for each office will be made known prior to the voting.
It was noted that if it appears that “block voting” is taking place, it is likely that the group will express a low confidence in the slate of officers that have been selected by the balloting process. The chairman indicated that he will report any suspicious voting activity to the WG along with the ballot results.
6. Technical Editing
There was no time for technical editing.
7. Closing
The conference call was terminated at 11:59 AM. It was agreed to continue discussion of the voting procedures during the next conference call that is scheduled for technical editing, on September 3, 2002.
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