September, 2005 IEEE P802.15-<15-05-0529-00-0000>
IEEE P802.15
Wireless Personal Area Networks
Project / IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)Title / <IEEE802.15 WG minutes>
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IEEE 802.15 Interim Meeting – Session #38
Hyatt Regency Garden Grove,
Garden Grove, California,
September 18th-23rd, 2005
Monday, 19 September 2005
8:10 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, 802.19, 802.20, 802.21, and 802.22 Chairs called the joint meeting to order. IEEE 802.15 attendance is included as Annex A.
Announcements
8:12 Approve/modify joint opening agenda (11-04-072-02-0000)
· Following neither discussion nor objection the agenda was approved.
Review and approve joint minutes from the Cairns meeting
· Upon neither discussion nor objection the joint minutes were approved.
The 802.11 Chair read the IEEE antitrust statement.
8:13 Summary of key working group/802 events/activities
o Financials/ Interim meeting (05-15-0528-0000):
§ July 2005 - $101, 424.35
§ Registration:
· Early=506, Late=99
§ Current Income = $282,450
8:18 Review IEEE, 802 LMSC, 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, 802.19, 802.20, & 802.21 802, 802.11, & 802.15 Policies and Procedures (IEEE802.11-005/781r1)
802.11 vice chair read the IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards
· There were no questions from attendees concerning this policy
o Online attendance recording & document # requests
§ Will be manual
o Bylaw Changes
o A Petrick read the Patent Committee ruling
o LoA Requests by B Heile
§ There were none
8:33 Architecture Standing Committee by T Siep
8:42 Review Interim meetings
1. Jan 2006 venue is the Hilton on the Big Island, Hawaii.
2. May 14-19 2006 Hyatt in Jacksonville, FL
3. September 2006: Looking at Prague or Istanbul; but if Jan 2007 will be London this venue could be changed to Asia.
8:50 Work group reports
802.11 wireless local area networks
There are 500 802.11 voting members as of today.
Study Group WNG – Globalization and Harmonization of 5 GHz by TK Tan.
802.1am, FMC update, CSMA over NMPR presentations
Task Group e - MAC enhancements (QoS): RevCom will vote on amendment today.
TGk by R Paine; finished up unresolved comments and now working on deferred comments. Looking to go to WG for permission to go to LB on Thursday
TGm by Robert O’Hara, Standard Maintenance: recirculation ballot closes today
TGn: Bruce Kraemer-High Throughput: TGn working through selection process. Joint proposal group will present its outcome this week.
TGp by Lee Armstrong: draft amendment for WAVE, will be reviewing comments on this draft
TGr Fast Roaming by Clint Chaplin: goal is to go to LB after November meeting
TGs (ESS Mesh Networking) by Don Eastlake: There are now 6 remaining proposals. Downselection will continue this week.
TGt (formerly WPP) by Charles Wright: listening to technical presentations on test templates and metrics for wireless performance
TGu - Wireless Internetworking with EXTERNAL NETWORKS by Steven McCann. Review requirements document, developing liaisons, listening to technical presentations.
TGv (Wireless Network Management) by Pat: This group will be reviewing requirements and preparing for CFP in November.
TGw: by Jesse Walker: This group will be hearing proposals this week
8:55 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Networks
· 230 voters, 40 nearly
15.3a alternate PHY for .3- G Rasor: proceeding on down selection process.
15.3b MAC enhancements – J Barr: looking to come out of this week with another recirculation of the Sponsor Ballot.
15.3c by Reed Fisher: SG 3c is writing selection criteria
15.4a alternate low rate PHY by Pat Kinney: Working on modulation, coexistence, and regulatory concerns.
15.4b revision to TG4 by Robert Poor: TG4b is working towards a recirculation of its LB after this session.
15.5 Mesh Network recommended practice by Myung Lee: generating a new call for proposals.
15 WNG by Erik Schylander: will be hearing presentations on concepts for
802.19 Wireless Coexistence TAG by S Shellhammer (19-05/033):
Joint meeting w/15.4a
802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access WG: Jerry Upton (20-05/056): This week will be spent working on the closure of the requirements for the technology selection process, evaluation criteria, and traffic models.
802.21 Media Independent Handoff Working Group Activities & Plans by Ajay Rajkumar: WG21 is reviewing Media Independent handover Services, usage scenarios, and liaising with IETF.
802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks by Carl Stevenson (22-05-076-03)
9:44 Old Business - Kerry/Heile
9:47 Adjourned joint 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, 802.19, 802.20, and 802.21 meeting
10:30 Meeting called to order
Straw poll of new attendees (1 new attendee)
Announcements:
· anti-trust statement
· IEEE-SA letters of assurance (loa)
Change of meeting agenda for Friday - Liaison reports - 802.18 liaison Jon Adams
Moved by I Gifford and seconded by R Poor the motion to approve the meeting agenda (15-05-0490-02-0000) was approved by unanimous consent
Moved by I Gifford and seconded by R Alfvin the motion to approve the 802.15 WG meeting minutes from San Francisco was approved by unanimous consent.
New Business: none
10:35 meeting recessed until Wednesday morning.
Wednesday, 21 September 2005
11:04am WG chair called the meeting to order.
Chair noted that the agenda was document 15-05-0490r2.
WG Chair made announcements concerning the social.
11:08 Status of 802.19 by T Siep (05-566r0)
11:13 TG3a status by G Rasor and J Lansford
The downselect voting results were 54% for OFDM to 46% for DS-UWB.
11:09 TG3b status by J Barr
This group will recirculate the Sponsor Ballot before next session.
11:15 TG3c status by Reed Fisher
TG3c is working on the criteria selection document and a channel model.
11:16 TG4a status by P Kinney
TG4a passed a number of motions on ranging and modulation methods.
11:14 TG4b status by R Poor
TG4b is focused on getting text for draft in place and editorial comments. The minutes for these meetings have been handled by Eric Gnoske.
11:18 TG5 status by Myung Lee
TG5 is in discussions on how to best move forward.
11:21 Wireless Architecture Committee by T Siep (15-05-0565-00-0000)
11:25 WNG by E Schylander
WNG has been challenged by WG chair to come up with a guideline to incubate future projects within 802.15.
11:30 Meeting recessed until the WG meeting on Friday.
Friday, 23 September, 2005
8:03 WG chair called the meeting to order (agenda 15-05-0490-02)
8:05 Closing report for TG3a by G Rasor (15-05-0591-00)
Down selection was won by MBOA however confirmation did not pass.
8:07 Closing report for TG3b by J Barr (15-05-0527-02-003b)
8:12 802.18 TAG by J Adams (15-05-0592-00-0000)
802.18 met at the ITU facility in Geneva collocated with the ITU.
8:16 TG3C by Reed Fisher (15-05-0585-00-003c)
8:20 TG4a closing report by Pat Kinney (15-05-0542-01-004a)
8:28 TG4b closing report by Robert Poor (15-05-0530-01-004b)
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 prior to the Vancouver meeting.
Moved by Robert Poor and seconded by Rene Struik. Following neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent.
8:33 TG5 by Myung Lee (15-05-0587-00-0005)
WG chair explained that in the process of changing chairs some records of TG5’s activity were lost and the current TG5 chair is validating the minutes and will redo the activities where the minutes are found to be incorrect.
J Barr noted that the posted agenda for TG5 did not include any meetings after Wednesday morning. Myung replied that the agenda approved by the TG5 did have afternoon meetings. J Barr stated that he believed that proper notification for the meetings of this group was not followed. J Barr noted that TG5 discussed an improperly formatted and improperly submitted document.
8:46 15WNG by Erik Schylander (15-05-05xx-00-0000)
8:54 TGe liaison report by J Bain
After six years TGe has finally passed RevCom, it is now a standard.
8:55 TG11n liaison report by J Barr (15-05-0588-00-0000)
9:03 11WNG by J Karaoguz (15-05-0590-00-0000)
9:08 1394TA liaison by Bob Heile
No status was available.
9:09 Bluetooth SIG report by J Barr
SIG is considering adding UWB as a supported radio; a study group has been formed. BT SIG is also working with UWB on regulatory issues.
9:11 CEA report by B Heile
Effort is to put together a way of consistent RF measurement.
9:13 ZigBee liaison by R Heile
ZigBee standard was publicly released with more than 8000 downloads. ZigBee is entertaining 802.15.4b.
9:14 UWB Forum Liaison by J Adams (15-05-59x-00-000)
9:17 M Fidler moved that a liaison be formed from 802.15 to WiMedia with S Wood as the liaison officer; R Huang seconded this motion. A vote was taken with the results of 15/14/5, the motion carries.
9:22 Open Discussion/Next Steps
Jan 2006: Hilton Waikaloa; March 2006 (Hyatt in Denver or DFW airport), Sept 2006 venue: Florida (Tampa, Jackson or Miami), Missouri (Kansas City).
San Francisco update: WG chair urged people to make reservations early
9:26 New Business
Motion to affirm R Alfvin as co-vice chair of 802.15 WG was moved by R Poor and seconded by J Gilb. Following neither discussion nor objection the motion carries by unanimous consent.
Chair talked to the issue of email traffic on the IEEE reflector having improper confidentiality statements, people sending email with these statements will be removed from the reflector.
Chair talked to the question of the automated attendance system; Chair stated that this was an 802 problem and needed to be resolved by 802 not its WGs.
9:35 A motion to adjourn was made by R Alfvin, seconded by J Adams, following neither discussion nor objection the motion carried, the session is adjourned.
Annex A Attendance = 187
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Adams, Jon
Aldana, Carlos
Alfvin, Richard
Aoki, Tsuguhide
Arita, Takashi
Arnett, Larry
Astrin, Arthur
Bahreini, Yasaman
Bain, Jay
Barr, John
Batra, Anuj
Berkema, Alan
Bowles, Mark
Brenner, David
Brethour, Vern
Brown, Ronald
Carney, Bill
Carson, Pat
Chang, Kuor-Hsin
Cho, Sangdo
Cho, Sarm-Goo
Cho, Sungrae
Chou, Chun-Ting
Corral, Celestino
Decuir, Joe
Dela Mora, Mario
Dombrowski, Kai
Drude, Stefan
Ekbal, Amal
Ellis, Jason
Emami, Shahriar
Everest, Paul
Fidler, Mark
Filauro, Valerio
Fischer, Matthew
Fisher, Reed
Foegelle, Michael
Freund, Amir
Gaucher, Brian
Gifford, Ian
Gilb, James
Gnoske, Eric
Goh, Michael
Gowans, Andrew
Green, Evan
Green, Larry
Grohmann, Bernd
Hach, Rainer
Hall, Robert
Heile, Robert
Herold, Barry
Heubaum, Karl
Hiertz, Guido
Higuchi, Keisuke
Ho, Jin-Meng
Hoghooghi, Michael
Huang, Robert
Ikeda, Hideto
Inoue, Yasuhiko
Jeong, Yeonkwon
Jia, Zhanfeng
Jiang(Chiang), Hong
Kaplan, Gideon
Karaoguz, Jeyhan
Kelly, Michael
Kim, Dongho
Kim, HyeongSeok
Kim, Jae-Hyon
Kim, JinKyeong
Kim, Yong Suk
Kimyacioglu, Kursat
Kinney, Patrick
Kishimoto, Shigeo
Kleindl, Guenter
Kohno, Ryuji
Krell, Mike
Kudo, Yasushi
Kumar, Brijesh
Kunisa, Akiomi
Kuramochi, Yuzo
Kwak, Kyung Sup
Kwak, Kyung Sup
Kwok, Yuen Sam
Lakkis, Ismail
Lampe, John
Lansford, Jim
Lee, Jeong Suk
Lee, Kyung Kuk
Lee, Myung
Lee, Nag
Lee, Sangjae
Lee, Wooyong
Leeper, David
Levy, Joseph
Li, Huan-Bang
Lin, Chia-Tsung
lin, hueijin
Lou, Hui-Ling
Maeki, Akira
Martigne, Patricia
Mathew, Abbie
Matsumoto, Taisuke
Matsuo, Ryoko
Matthews, Gary
Mc Laughlin, Michael
McInnis, Michael
Mo, Samuel
Molisch, Andreas
Morley, Steven
Naganuma, Ken
Nakase, Hiroyuki
Nandagopalan, Saishankar
Ngo, Chiu
Noble, Erwin
O'Conor, John
Odman, Knut
Ogawa, Hiroyo
Orlick, Philip
Ouvry, Laurent
Pardee, John
Patra, Nirmalendu
Patton, Dave
Pinel, Stephane
Pollock, Tony
Poor, Robert
Powell, Clinton
Qi, Yihong
Rasor, Gregg
Razzell, Charles
Reddy, Joseph
Reede, Ivan
Rhee, Seung Hyong
Rhodes, Rob
Roberts, Glyn
Roberts, Richard
Rolfe, Benjamin
Rouzet, Philippe
Rypinski, Chandos
Sadri, Ali
Sahinoglu, Zafer
Saleem, Syed
Sanada, Yukitoshi
Sanchez, Maria
Schylander, Erik
Sekiguchi, Shoichi
Seyedi, Alireza
Shao, Huai-Rong
Sharma, Sanjeev
Shepherd, Nicoll
Shetty, Siddharth
Shimada, Shusaku
Shiraki, Yuichi
Siwiak, Kazimierz
Skafidas, Efstratios (Stan)
Solomon, Yoram
Somayazulu, V.
Soomro, Amjad
Struik, Marinus
Sutton, Robert
Takahashi, Kazuaki
Tan, Teik-Kheong
Tanahashi, Mike
Tanaka, Yasushi
Taylor, James
Tonnerre, Arnaud
Tou, Jarvis
Toyoda, Ichihiko
Vaitonis, Robin
Vogtli, Nanci
Welborn, Matthew
Wilhoyte, Michael
Wilson, Richard
Wineinger, Gerald
Wong, Marcus
Wong, Sai Ho
wood, stephen
Worfolk, Patrick
Wright, Tracy
Yagi, Akiyoshi
Yamaguchi, Hirohisa
Yin, Jijun
Yong, Su-Khiong
Yu, Zhan
Yurdakul, Serdar
Zadeh, Mahmoud
Zhen, Bin
Zhu, Chunhui
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