December 1999 IEEE P802.15-99/158r0
IEEE P802.15
Wireless Personal Area Networks
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Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Title / High Rate Study Group Kick-off Memo
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IEEE 802.15 WPAN-High Rate Study Group (HRSG)
This e-mail is intended to be the organizing memo to start the High Rate Study Group activity.
Recap of Events:
Thursday November 11th, 1999 the IEEE 802 Executive Committee voted to authorize a “... Study Group (SG), within 802.15, with the charter of drafting a PAR and 5 Criteria for a High Rate WPAN which will have a fall back mode fully compliant with the proposed Task Group 1 draft standard.”
The proposal and motion, presented by Eastman Kodak, Motorola, and Cisco Systems can be found at: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/1999/Nov99/ document number 99115r1P802-15 (an MS Power Point document). The results of the marketing meeting can be found as 99145r0P802-15.
Goals:
1- Our immediate goal is to submit the Project Authorization Request (PAR) and 5 Criteria to the WG Chair for WG review, approval and then be presented to the 802 Executive Committee (ExCom) at the March Plenary Meeting. Since the document has to be to the 802 ExCom 30 days before the March 6th, 2000 meeting, a final version would have to be submitted by Feb. 4th, 2000. Details of what happens in between will be discussed in the HRSG conference calls.
2- In parallel, we would like to start the Call for Applications and Proposals as soon as possible. The method used by 802.15 and Bluetooth should help us speed to standardization. As the proposals come in, they will be discussed by conference call. Presentations will be scheduled for the March 2000 Plenary Meeting, providing the new Task Group is approved.
Organization:
As Chair, I have split the Chair into two parts for the HRSG phase in order to recognize the importance of the marketing and public relations effort.
Co-chair (Technical & Process) Jim Allen -
Co-chair (Marketing) Bob Morris –
Vice Chair – Todor Cooklev –
Secretary – (TBD – any volunteers? 2 individuals are checking for permission).
In addition, I propose 4 “committees” to divide up the work:
Coexistence Liaison – Tom Baker (Tom, please confirm)
Marketing Liaison – Bob Morris (or TBD Rick Alfvin )
PHY Coordinator – TBD
MAC Coordinator – Allen Heberling
Suggested Rules of Engagement:
*Most of the work will be done by conference call and e-mail.
*Motorola has agreed to make it’s Chicago and worldwide video conference facilities available to this
HRSG if needed.
*We will start by using the (~42 voters) or
( ~175 WPAN'ers e.g., IEEE, BT, HRF, Academia, Industry) for distribution.
*Ian Gifford has already set up a home page at http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/HRSG.html
*Weekly meetings will be scheduled (See below).
*Attendees should schedule agenda items with the Secretary one week in advance of the conference call,
but a “for-the-good-of-the-group” time will be allotted. (Send agenda items to
until we have a secretary volunteer)
*Submissions must follow the IEEE rules for copyright and IPR.
*A series of criteria developed from applications is being developed. Heberling is creating a draft for the
HRSG review. The choice of PHY and MAC will be based on technical data, and the Pugh selection
process (matrix of criteria vs. proposed solutions).
Next meeting :
We propose a conference call on Tuesdays, at, 11AM EST.
(December 7,14,21,28, January 4. We recognize that the holidays and BT conference may cause conflicts with these dates, but we have a very short time to complete this activity.
Call 1-888-385-5669, or 1-816-650-0602, Conference Code 60809
The Agenda will be sent out in advance, or available at the beginning of the meeting as time allows:
The next meeting will include a review of these notes, suggestions for organization , and the first discussion of the proposed PAR and 5Cdrafts.
IF YOU WANT TO PASS DATA INTO THE SYSTEM FOR THIS MEETING, PRIOR TO THE LIST SERVER COMING ON LINE, PLEASE SEND IT TO nless marked Private, I will make your comments known to the SG as instructed.
Submission Page XXX Robert F. Heile, <company>