IEEE P802.15
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Title / IEEE802.15 WG minutes
Date Submitted / 22 July, 2005
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Re: / 802.15 Plenary Meeting in San Francisco, CA
Abstract / IEEE 802.15 Working Group Minutes
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IEEE 802.15 Plenary Meeting – Session #37
Hyatt Regency San Francisco,
5 Embarcadero Center,
San Francisco, CA 94111 USA
Monday, 18 July 2005
1:09 802.15 Chair called the joint meeting to order.
WG chair read the IEEE-SA Antitrust Statement to the attendees (05/332r4)
Announcements
§ The 802.15 chair called for any IP statements (letters of assurance) for 802.15; there were none.
1:14 R. Alfvin reviewed the general agenda information concerning the network for this session, attendance recording, etc. Rick Alfvin noted that as of today there were 225 voters and 46 nearly voting members and 135 aspirants.
1:21 Summary of key working group / 802 events / activities
§ Review Interim meetings
o 18 – 23 September 2005
§ Hyatt, Garden Grove, CA
o 15 – 20 January, 2006
§ Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, HI USA
o 14 – 19 May, 2006
§ Hyatt, Jacksonville, FL
o Sept 2006
§ Hilton, Prague (10 – 15 Sep) or Swissotel, Istanbul (17 – 22 Sep). A straw poll showed 52 favoring Prague with 28 favoring Istanbul.
1:29 ExCom report by 802.15 Chair (15-05-403-00-0000)
· Current reserve is $350 with goal to get it up to $500K
· Almost 2 Million downloads for Get 802 program since its inception with an average of 8500 per week
· 802 position being developed for IEC/JTC1 in Beijing in August
1:37 Chair award plaques for issued standards (15.1)
1:39 Financials by chair (IEEE802.15-05-0405-00):
o Completed joint 802.11 and 802.15 Treasury audit
o Cairns
§ 523 attendees
§ Loss of US $65,099
o January bank balance was $64,045.23
1:45 Approve or modify Working Group Agenda
§ Motion to approve agenda was made by R Alfvin and seconded by R Poor. Agenda was approved by unanimous consent following neither discussion nor objection (15-05-322-04-0000)
§ I Gifford moved to approve the minutes for the Cairns session which was seconded by C Lanzl. Following neither discussion nor objections the minutes were approved by unanimous consent (15-05-0327-00-0000).
1:53 IEEE, 802 LMSC, & 802.15 Policies and Procedures by Chair
There are no P&P changes at the moment
1:54 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Network Status
802.19 status by T Siep: group voted no on 15.4b, resolution is expected this week
TG3a Higher Rate Task Group by Rasor and Lansford: another confirmation vote on Wednesday, chair selection to follow that vote.
PC by G Rasor: there is no report
TG3b MAC changes - Gilb: Finished LB 30 with no new “no” votes. This draft will now be going to Sponsor Ballot.
TG3C by Reed Fisher: This group will be discussing the WCA petition to the FCC and reviewing presentations.
TG4a Alt PHY – Kinney: Will be hearing 18 presentations, and working towards resolution of major technical issues this session.
TG4b TG Revision by R Poor: LB31 results of 51 yes and 5 no votes but with no new “no” votes. This week will be spent on comment resolution and draft editing.
TG5 Mesh by B Heile: J Boot has resigned as chair of TG5; Myung Lee will be acting chair.
2:12 Architecture Committee by T Siep and J Gilb (15-05-376-01-0000)
Reviewed the status of known issues for 802:
· Are we adhering to the 802.1 architecture?
· Group voted against approval of 802.1am PAR
· T Siep noted that attendance was very good at this meeting and well spread across the various WGs.
· Motion: Recommend the formation of a Study Group on IEEE 802 arch issue that addresses wireless issues moved by T Siep and seconded by J Gilb. Following neither discussion nor objection the motion was unanimously approved.
2:22 802 PAR responses request by chair
I Reede asked that the 802.1am PAR request be postponed.
Motion: Recommend that the 802.1am PAR be postponed pending the formation of an Executive Committee Study Group for wireless architecture moved by I Reede and seconded by C. Lanzl. Following neither discussion nor objection the motion was unanimously approved.
2:26 R Roberts noted that Andy Molisch was appointed an IEEE Fellow
2:27 Chair recessed the WG meeting
Wednesday, 20 July 2005
11:00am WG chair called the meeting to order.
WG Chair made announcements concerning Meeting Objectives and Agenda.
The agenda (15-05-0322-05-0000) was reviewed by the WG chair. Erik Schylander asked for time to talk about WNG under new business. James Gilb announced that a group Wireless World Research Forum is collecting information on wireless sensor networks and solicited inputs from the IEEE members.
Chair noted that he submitted the comment on 802.1am yesterday.
11:05 802.19 by T Siep
Presentations have been made but formal status will be done on Friday.
11:06 TG3b by John Barr (15-05-0154-02-003b)
Motion: to forward D02 to the LMSC for submission to Sponsor Ballot moved by James Gilb and seconded by Ian Gifford. Following no discussion the vote result was: 52/0/5; the motion carries.
11:09 TG3c by Reed Fisher
The WCA has petitioned the FCC to modify the 60 GHz rules, part 15.255. This petition is being opposed by TG3c. TG3c is trying to get the 802LMSC to also oppose this petition.
11:11 TG4a by Pat Kinney
TG4a has reaffirmed the bandplan and has now started defining the coding and modulation.
11:12 TG4b by Robert Poor
LB31 is closed with 416 comments. The MAC had 70 Ts with 14 TRs. The PHY had 60 comments should be resolved by end of day.
11:15 TG5 status update by Chair
Myung Lee is the acting chair will start conducting meetings later today and during the rest of this week.
11:15 PC committee by G Rasor
G Rasor noted that he will move on Friday that this group be turned into an advisory group.
11:17 ISO liaison report by Ho-in Jeon (05-0447-00)
There have been no official meetings since the last IEEE meeting. The resolution made was to hold the next meeting in Beijing on August 8 but no conclusion can be made since the decision must be reaffirmed at the ISO plenary meeting 29 August to 2 September in France.
11:25 WNG by Erik Schylander: Eric asked the WG chair to give credit for 802.15 members attending the WNG meetings since 802.15 had no such group.
Motion: that 802.15 form a standing committee similar to 802.11’s WNG moved by Erik Schylander and seconded by D Leeper. Discussion: Collin noted that WNG seems to generate all the study groups for 802.11 and that some of these SGs are not worthwhile so he cautioned the WG that this should be avoided. R Roberts supported this motion noting that this would be a good venue for emerging technologies. T Siep spoke in favor of the motion noting that it could be a home for wireless architecture issues. Seeing no objections the motion passes by unanimous consent. The WG chair appointed Erik Schylander as the chair of this group.
The WG chair refused to allow credit for attending 802.11’s WNG.
Chair further noted that there have been three respondents to the RFP for documentation and attendance software. Chair noted that he hoped that review of these RFPs would be completed by the next meeting.
11:36 WG chair recessed the meeting until Friday AM1.
Friday, 22 July, 2005
8:11 WG chair called the meeting to order
Chair reviewed the agenda.
8:18 802.19 liaison report from T. Siep (15-05-0476-02-0000)
Policy and Procedures have been finalized. 802.19 has requested presentations from 802.15 summarizing the aspects of various systems that impact coexistence.
8:22 Closing report for TG3b by J Gilb (15-05-0465-00-003a)
8:25 TG3c closing report by Reed Fisher (15-05-0467-01-003c)
Motion: To approve 18-05-0023r2, “comments on the Petition for Rulemaking – Amendments of Part 15 Rules for License-Exempt 57-64 GHz Band” as the 802.15 working group position on the WCA petition to the FCC.
Moved by Reed Fisher, and seconded by James Gilb. Upon hearing neither discussion the vote was taken with the result of 36/0/0, the motion carries.
8:35 Closing report for TG3a by J Lansford and G Rasor (15-05-480-00)
Confirmation vote failed, downselection will continue. Chair selection followed as new business
Motion: The 802.15 working confirms the selection of Chair candidates from TG3a as follows: Co chairs: Jim Lansford and Greg Rasor. Moved by Rick Alfvin and seconded by James Gilb. Following neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent
8:40 Closing report for TG4a by Pat Kinney (15-05-398-01-004a)
8:47 Closing report for TG4b by R Poor (15-05-0463-00-004b)
Week’s effort was spent on LB31 comment resolution.
Motion: The 802.15 Working Group authorizes the TG4b ballot resolution committee to complete comment resolution and release the result to a recirculation of LB31 at least 15 days prior to the Garden Grove meeting.
Moved: Robert Poor
Seconded: Ed Callaway
Following neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent.
8:53 Closing report for TG5 by Myung Lee (15-05-0475-00-005)
Motion: The 802.15 working confirms the selection of Myung Lee as Chair for TG5. Moved by T Siep and seconded by I Gifford. Following neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent.
T Siep asked if the group was interested in liaising with IEEE 1451 due to its interest in mesh networking. Myung replied that it hadn’t been brought up yet but that he was interested in this possibility.
8:59 PC report by G Rasor (15-05-479-00)
9:04 TGe liaison report by J Bain
This TG put its submission package together (11-05-0659-01-0000) for RevCom.
9:06 TGn liaison report by L Arnett (15-05-0473-00-0000)
Group decided not to hold down select but allow time for a 3-way merger at the November meeting. TGn further agreed to allow single stream (05/559r0, i.e. no MIMO) for low cost, low power devices.
9:11 WNG (802.11 WNG) liaison report by A. Astrin
Activity included possible additions to TGu to improve internetworking with outside networks, wireless response to 802.1am PAR and 5C with a vote result to postpone the PAR.
9:18 CEA liaison report Bob Heile
Working Group 7 is working to compare wireless standards.
9:20 ZigBee liaison report by Pat Kinney
Pat Kinney noted that compliancy testing of its platform has commenced and that the public release of the specification occurred about one month ago with about 1000 downloads per week. The next ZigBee meeting will be in Schaumburg, IL in September 12 – 16, 2005.
9:22 UWB Forum liaison report by J Adams (15-05-477-00-0000)
9:24 AOB
R Alfvin noted that WirelessWorld is broken, so new numbers need to be requested from R Alfvin, when documents are complete they need to be sent to R Alfvin.
Upon a request for a liaison with 802.18, J Adams volunteered.
9:29 Motion to adjourn was made by R Alfvin, and seconded by C Lanzl. Upon hearing neither discussion nor objection, the motion carries; the session is adjourned.
Annex A
224 Attendees (Last Name, First Name, % Attendance)
Adams, Jon 13%
Aiello, Roberto 31%
Alfvin, Richard 100%
Aoki, Mikio 100%
Arita, Takashi 100%
Arnett, Larry 31%
Astrin, Arthur 75%
Bahreini, Yasaman 69%
Bain, Jay 100%
Baldwin, Gary 44%
Batra, Anuj 75%
Beecher, Phil 69%
Berkema, Alan 81%
Bosco, Bruce 75%
Bourgeois Brown, Monique 69%
Bowles, Mark 75%
Brenner, David 100%
Brethour, Vern 94%
Brown, Ronald 81%
Callaway, Ed 88%
Carney, Bill 81%
Carson, Pat 44%
Cha, Jaesang 63%
Chang, Kuor Hsin 94%
Chang, Soo-Young 38%
Chin, Francois 88%
Choi, Yun 75%
Chong, Chia-Chin 6%
Chong, Jongwha 100%
Chou, Chun-Ting 81%
Choudhary, Manoj 100%
Corral, Celestino 94%
Cragie, Robert 75%
De la Mora, Mario 81%
Decuir, Joe 81%
Del Prado Pavon, Javier 94%
Drude, Stefan 94%
Ekbal, Amal 100%
Elbatt, Tamer 13%
Ellis, Jason 88%
Emami, Shahriar 100%
Eng, Yew Soo 69%
Enns, Frederick 25%
Everest, Paul 81%
Fidler, Mark 88%
Filauro, Valerio 88%
Fisher, Reed 75%
Fleming, Kristoffer 88%
Freund, Amir 100%
Gentile, Camillo 94%
Gifford, Ian 100%
Gilb, James 94%
Gnoske, Eric 81%
Gowans, Andy 19%
Green, Evan 94%
Grohmann, Bernd 75%
Hach, Rainer 88%
Hara, Shinsuke 100%
Heberling, Allen 88%
Heile, Robert 100%
Heinze, Eric 88%
Herold, Barry 100%
Heubaum, Karl 6%
Hiertz, Guido 13%
Ho, Jin-Meng 81%
Houghton, Patrick 100%
Huang, Robert 94%
Hyun, Seok Bong 63%
Ikeda, Hideto 75%
Ikegami, Tetsushi 100%
Jamieson, Philip 94%
Jamtgaard, Mark 100%
Janbu, Oyvind 88%
Jang, Yeong Min 31%
Jennings, Adrian 100%
Jeon, Ho-In 94%
Jia, Zhanfeng 88%
Julian, David 100%
Kan, Chieh-ying 25%
Kelly, Michael 94%
Kim, Jae-Hyon 94%
Kim, Jaeyoung 100%
Kim, JinKyeong 94%
Kimyacioglu, Kursat 81%
Kindler, Matthias 88%
Kinney, Patrick 100%
Kishimoto, Shigeo 100%
Kleindl, Guenter 13%
Kohno, Ryuji 100%
Krell, Mike 88%
Kudo, Yasushi 88%
Kwak, Kyung Sup 63%
Kwok, Yuen Sam 75%
Lai, Jiun-You 88%
Lakkis, Ismail 100%
Lampe, John 75%
Lansford, Jim 69%
Lanzl, Colin 94%
Lee, Cheolhyo 100%
Lee, Chong Hyun 100%
Lee, Dongjun 13%
Lee, IL-Kyoo 75%
Lee, Kyung Kuk 100%
Lee, Myung 25%
Lee, Wooyong 88%
Leeper, David 69%
Levin, Gregg 13%
Li, Huan-Bang 81%
Li, Liang 81%
Li, Wenzhen 75%
Liang, Haixiang 81%
Liu, Hang 31%
Lunttila, Timo 81%