March, 2010 P802.15-10-0222-00-004f
IEEE P802.15
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Title / IEEE 802.15.4f Active RFID System Task Group Minutes
Date Submitted / 18, March 2010
Source / Mike McInnis
The Boeing Company
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Re: / 802.15 Interim Meeting in Orlando, FL USA (March 2010 session)
Abstract / IEEE 802.15.4f Active RFID System Task Group Minutes
Purpose / Official minutes of the March 2010 Active RFID System TG Meeting Sessions
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IEEE 802.15 Plenary Meeting – Session
IEEE 802.15.4f Active RFID System TG Session Minutes
8th Meeting as an 802.15.4f Task Group
Orlando, FL
March 2010
Monday 15, March 2010
PM1 Session
1:42pm Mike McInnis opened the meeting
Reviewed schedule
Review of this weeks agenda items
Tim Harrington made a motion to approve the minutes
Second by Andy Ward
Unanimously approved
No patents or IP claimed
Review of Timeline: currently behind by two to four months
Review of Meeting goals
Reviewed attendance requirements
Next meeting in Beijing, China
Minutes from the January 2010 Los Angles meeting 15-10-0073-00-004f
Russ Chandler made a motion to approve the minutes
Second by Dalibor Pokrajac
Unanimously approved
Tim Harrington presented document number 176-00.
This document proposed resolutions to some of the document 804-03 TBDs that TG4f discussed during ad-hoc teleconference calls between Jan 2010 and March 2010.
Discussion occurred.
Adrian Jennings presented document number 804-06.
Discussion occurred which resulted in 804-07 and then 804-08
Motion: To accept document 15-09-0804-08-004f as the TG4f revised baseline draft PHY document.
Moved by Adrian Jennings
Seconded by Tim Harrington
Some discussion took place
This is a technical motion so it must pass by at least 75%.
Yes = 10
No = 0
Abstain = 0
Motion carried/passed.
Adrian Jennings presented document number 145-00.
Discussion occurred
Tim Harrington presented document number 147-02.
Discussion occurred
Tim will amend presentation and present again.
Joint TG4e/f/g meeting scheduled for the PM2 timeslot today.
Recess 3:40pm (until AM1 Tuesday) but TG4f is scheduled to participate in the joint TG4e/f/g meeting during the PM2 timeslot.
Tuesday 16, March 2010
AM1 Session
8:08am Mike McInnis opened the meeting
Masashi Shimizu presented document 0188-00
Masashi Shimizu presented document 0189-00
Discussion occurred.
At 8:40am we recessed for 15 minutes to allow the next speaker to finish and post their document on the IEEE 802 document server.
At 8:56 Mike McInnis called the meeting back to order.
Andy Ward presented document 192-00
Discussion occurred.
Tim Harrington presented document 161-03
Slide 11 is new
We were asked to take part in a joint IEEE 802.18, TG4e/f/g meeting during the Tuesday AM2 session to discuss work going on with ETSI 300 328 which may affect IEEE 802.15 radio use in Europe.
Recess 10:01am
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Tuesday 16, March 2010
AM2 Session
TG4f participants met in a joint IEEE 802.18, TG4e/f/g meeting and discussed potential issues with changes being proposed to ETSI 300 328 which may affect IEEE 802.15.4 radios. This meeting began at 10:30am.
The Joint IEEE 802.18, TG4e/f/g meeting adjourned at 11:45
Mike McInnis made an announcement that 802.15.4f will be called into order immediately following this joint meeting.
11:55am Mike McInnis opened the meeting
We discussed what we had learned in the joint IEEE 802.18, TG4e/f/g meeting and whether it would affect our work in TG4f.
Recess 12:25pm
Wednesday 17, March 2010
AM1 Session
8:06am Mike McInnis opened the meeting
And Ward presented additions to his document 0192-01.
Discussion occurred.
Dalibor Pokrajac presented his 433 MHz PHY draft text document 0220-00.
Discussion occurred.
Following Dalibors presentation the group decided to write three draft PHY documents, Dalibor’s will support the 433 MHz PHY, a 2.4 GHZ PHY document will be created as well as a UWB PHY document.
Edits, revisions, changes, additions, etc. will be made in these three PHY documents then they will be merged into one document.
Adrian Jennings presented document 0145-01
Discussion occurred and as a result Adrian will update this document.
Recess 9:44am
Wednesday 17, March 2010
PM1 Session
1:33pm Mike McInnis opened the meeting
After some discussion about readiness to present documents the group went into recess until 1:50pm.
1:50pm Mike McInnis called the meeting back to order.
Adrian Jennings presented document 0145-03.
Discussion occurred and this document was revised to 0145-04 during Adrian’s presentation.
Motion: To accept proposal in document 15-10-0145-04-004f for incorporation into the baseline draft PHY document 0804-08.
Moved by Adrian Jennings
Seconded by Tim Harrington
Some discussion took place
This is a technical motion so it must pass by at least 75%.
Yes = 9
No = 0
Abstain = 0
Motion carried/passed.
Andy Ward presented document 192-02.
Discussion occurred.
Motion: To accept proposal in document 15-10-0192-02-004f for incorporation into the baseline draft PHY document 0804-08.
Moved by Andy Ward
Seconded by Adrian Jennings
Some discussion took place and as a result Andy Ward withdrew his motion.
Andy requested a short recess in order to update this document.
A 15 minute recess was granted.
At 2:41pm the meeting was called back to order.
Motion: To accept proposal in document 15-10-0192-03-004f for incorporation into the baseline draft PHY document 0804-08.
Moved by Andy Ward
Seconded by Adrian Jennings
Some discussion took place
This is a technical motion so it must pass by at least 75%.
Yes = 10
No = 0
Abstain = 0
Motion carried/passed.
Adrian Jennings presented documents 0148-01, 0147-03, and 0148-00
Discussion occurred.
Recess 3:29pm
Wednesday 17, March 2010
PM2 Session
4:02pm Mike McInnis opened the meeting
Billy Verso presented document 0205-00
Discussion occurred.
Billy was asked to develop a document which TG4f could review, vote on, and submit to IEEE 802.15.4e for insertion into their draft MAC standard which is being released for letter balloting after this meeting.
TG4f participants requested that we go into recess so that they would have time to work on their documents prior to the social event starting at 6pm.
Recess 4:30pm
Thursday 18, March 2010
AM1 Session
8:01am Mike McInnis opened the meeting
Adrian Jennings presented documents 148-02, 148-03, 148-04.
Discussion occurred.
Adrian created a new document during the discussion, document 206-00.
Discussion continued.
As a result of further discussion Adrian will revise document 206-00 to 206-01.
Billy Verso presented document 0211-00.
Discussion occurred.
Motion: To accept blink frame primitives draft text in document 15-10-0211-00-004e and submit it to 802.15.4e for inclusion in their draft MAC standard document 15-10-0604-06-004e.
Moved by Billy Verso
Seconded by Adrian Jennings
Some discussion took place
This is a technical motion so it must pass by at least 75%.
Yes = 5
No = 0
Abstain = 2
Motion carried/passed.
Meeting adjourned 9:59am
Thursday 18, March 2010
AM2 Session
10:32am Mike McInnis opened the meeting
Adrian Jennings presented document 0147-04.
Discussion occurred.
Motion: To accept proposal in document 15-10-0147-04-004f for incorporation into the baseline draft PHY document 0804-08.
Moved by Adrian Jennings
Seconded by Tim Harrington
Adrian Jennings called the question;
This is a procedural vote which requires 51% to pass.
Yes = 6
No = 1
Abstain =0
The motion to call the question passed.
This is a technical motion so it must pass by at least 75%.
Yes = 7
No = 1
Abstain = 0
Number of yes votes equals 87.5% so the motion carried/passed.
Dalibor Pokrajac presented document 0619-00
Adrian began discussing the inclusion of the proposals which were voted upon and passed into the 0804-08 document. Adrian first presented 0804-09 and further discussion occurred.
As a result of the discussion a 20 minute recess was requested in order to complete the updates to his 0206-00 document and revising it to 0206-01.
In Recess at 11:25am.
At 11:46am the meeting was called back to order by Mike McInnis.
Adrian Jennings presented document 0206-01.
Discussion occurred.
As a result of discussion Adrian created document 0219-00 during the meeting.
Discussion continued.
Motion: To accept proposal in document 15-10-0219-00-004f for incorporation into the baseline draft PHY document 0804-08.
Moved by Adrian Jennings
Seconded by Andy Ward
Discussion occurred.
As a result of further discussion Andy withdrew the motion.
Adrian Jennings presented 0804-09, revised it to 0804-10 and posted it on the server then found additional errors in the document while going through it on the overhead projector with the TG4 group. Document 0804-10 was then further revised and posted on the IEEE 802.15 document server as 0804-11.
Motion: To accept document 15-10-0804-11-004f as the going forward baseline draft PHY document.
Moved by Adrian Jennings
Seconded by Dalibor Pokrajac
This is a technical motion so it must pass by at least 75%.
Yes = 6
No = 0
Abstain = 2
Motion carried/passed
We discussed the need to schedule ad hoc teleconference calls during the period between the end of this meeting session and the May meeting session in Beijing, China.
We established the following teleconference call schedule.
• Weekly, Thursdays, 8am Pacific Time (USA)
– April 1, 2010
– April 8, 2010
– April 15, 2010
– April 22, 2010
– April 29 2010
– May 6 2010
– May 13, 2010
Teleconference call details will be distributed through the TG4f e-mail reflector:
There was no new business.
There was no old business.
Adrian Jennings made a motion to adjourn the meeting.
No objections.
Meeting adjourned 12:30pm
IEEE 802.15.4f Administrative Documents:
223 / 0 / TG4f / Active-RFID-Closing-Report-Orlando-March-2010 / Mike McInnis (The Boeing Company) / 18-Mar-2010 16:37:20 / Download131 / 3 / TG4f / Agenda-March-2010 / Mike McInnis (The Boeing Company) / 16-Mar-2010 12:23:05 / Download
167 / 1 / TG4f / Opening-Introduction-Mar-2010 / Mike McInnis (The Boeing Company) / 15-Mar-2010 14:17:38 / Download
March 2010 Presentation documents in IEEE 802.15.4f:
145 / 0 / TG4f / Considerations for Non-Coherent UWB Receivers Operating in Long Range Mode / Adrian Jennings (Time Domain) / Download145 / 1 / Download
145 / 3 / Download
145 / 4 / Download
147 / 2 / TG4f / Time Domain UWB Band Plan Proposal / Adrian Jennings (Time Domain) / Download
147 / 3 / Download
147 / 4 / Download
148 / 0 / TG4f / Companion Document to Time Domain UWB Band Plan Proposal / Adrian Jennings (Time Domain) / Download
148 / 1 / Download
148 / 2 / Download
148 / 3 / Download
148 / 4 / Download
161 / 2 / TG4f / ZES Band Plan Proposal / Timothy Harrington (Zebra Enterprise Solutions) / Download
161 / 3 / Download
176 / 0 / TG4f / Discussion Topics in Merged Proposal / Tim Harrington / Download
188 / 0 / TG4f / RR in JAPAN / Masashi Shimizu NTT / Download
189 / 0 / TG4f / Japanese Radio Regulations for RFID / Masashi Shimizu NTT / Download
192 / 0 / TG4f / Integration lengths for extended-range PHY / Andy Ward (Ubisense) / Download
192 / 1 / Download
192 / 2 / Download
192 / 3 / Download
205 / 0 / TG4f / MAC primitives for Blink Frame / Billy Verso (DecaWave) / Download
206 / 0 / TG4f / UWB Enhanced Mode Performance and Encoding Proposal / Adrian Jennings (Time Domain) / Download
206 / 1 / Download
211 / 0 / TG4e / Draft text for MAC Primitives for Blink frame TX and RX / Billy Verso (DecaWave) / Download
220 / 0 / TG4f / 433 MHz PHY Draft Text / Dalibor Pokrajac (GuardRFID) / Download
619 / 0 / TG4f / GuardRFID 433 MHz PHY Proposal / Dalibor Pokrajac (GuardRFID) / Download
804 / 7 / TG4f / TG4f Merged Proposal: Decawave, Guard RFID, Time Domain, Ubisense, ZES / Michael McLaughlin (Decawave), Dalibor Pokrajac (GuardRFID), Adrian Jennings (Time Domain), Andy Ward (Ubisense), Tim Harrington (Zebra Enterprise Solutions) / Download
804 / 8 / Download
804 / 9 / Download
804 / 10 / Download
804 / 11 / Download
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