May, 2000 IEEE P802.15-00/115r0

IEEE P802.15

Wireless Personal Area Networks

Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Title / TG 2 - Coexistence Task Group
Date Submitted / [8 May, 2000]
Source / [Kevin Marquess]
[Hyper Corporation]
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Re: / Meeting Minutes
Abstract / [802.15.2 Seattle, WA Interm Meeting Minutes for TG2 on Coexistence]
Purpose / [Tentative Meeting Minutes]
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Renaissance Madison Hotel

Seattle, Washington

8 May 00 to 12 Mar 00

Monday, May 8, 2000

10:35 A.M. / Shellhammer / Call to order and review of today’s agenda
10:42 A.M. / Marquess / Review of Albuquerque, NM Meeting Minutes
Document 00/040r0P802-15
10:52 A.M / Marquess / Call to approve meeting minutes
1st – Michael Dydyk
2nd – Peter Murry
Pass – by unanimous consent
10:54 A.M. / Shellhammer / Motion to approve agenda
1st – Michael Dydyk
2nd – Peter Murry
Pass – 9/0/0
10:56 A.M. / Sizer / Presentation – 00/138r0P802-15
Discussion of Bluetooth SIG – Coexistence Task Group
Todd Sizer of Lucent is chair of this group within the SIG and the intent of the presentation is to discuss how IEEE and the SIG may work together.
Rich Ditch is official liasion between SIG and IEEE.
11:22 A.M. / Golmie / Document 00/103r1P802-15
Discussion of Coexistence Preformance metrics – continuation of discussion in Albuquerque, NM meeting
  • MAC definition – BB & L2CAP

12:02 P.M. / Shellhammer / Adjourn meeting for lunch

Tuesday, May 9, 2000

1:02 P.M. / Shellhammer / Call to Order
1:05 P.M. / Marquess / Need to add discussion of University research to agenda
1:06 P.M. / Shellhammer / Presentation 00/132r0P802-15 of PER (Packet Error Rate) analysis. The associated document outlines all of the assumptions and derivation of formulas used 00/133r0P802-15
1:46 P.M. / Schiff / Maurice Schiff of Elanix, Inc. was invited by Michael Dydyk to discuss their simulation package.
2:25 P.M. / Wilson / Coexistence simulation discussion – Wednesday will perform some testing.
2:32 P.M. / Shellhammer / Adjourn for break.

Wednesday, May 10, 2000

8:04 A.M. / Shellhammer / Call to Order
8:07 A.M. / Seip / Tutorial on how to create a standard.
9:01 A.M. / McGlynn / Discussion of Recommended Practice structure
Is there a requirement from PAR to capture text in the standard (Shellhammer)
Liasion might need to be set-up w/ 802.11 & .16 to coordinate with their efforts. (Seip)
What are Coexistence SAPs? (Golmie)
9:20 A.M. / Golmie / Presentation 00/134r0P802-15 update of the Coexistence Performace Modeling: MAC interface which was started in presentation 00/066r0P802-15 and
Need to normalize the measurements (Shellhammer)
Next step is a discussion of the specifics for the “scenarioes” – profiles, traffic models
10:14 A.M. / Shellhammer / Summarize potential Thursday and adjourn for TG3

Thursday, May 11, 2000

1:03 P.M. / Shellhammer / Call to Order
1:06 P.M. / Lansford / Presentation 00/156r0P802-15. Update on the PHY layer modeling efforts.
Gave an overview of WLAN-show in London
1:51 P.M. / Shellhammer / Discussion of how to approach the PHY and MAC modelling efforts interface
Michael Dydyk and Jim Lansford will define initial environment
Conference call May 22, 2000 discussion of
2:05 P.M. / Kevin Karcz / Univ. of New Hampshire – Interoperablility Lab
Discussion of testing
Michael Dydyk will try to locate and loan a pair of Bluetooth devices to UNH-Interoperablility Lab
2:17 P.M. / Shellhammer / Discussion of Outline of Recommended Practice
Mechanisms: Collaborative or Non-collaborative
2:35 P.M. / Shellhammer / Adjourn for the week.

SubmissionPage 1Kevin Marquess, Hyper Corporation