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Summary report of the IEEE P802.15 Working Group's activities in Tel Aviv, including objectives, submissions, and next steps for wireless personal area networks.
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IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks MC Report #1 David Intercontinental Hotel 12, Kaufman St. Tel Aviv Israel Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Contents • MC Summary • Kaua’i Summary • Interim Session Summary • Overview of Tel-Aviv • Objectives • Submissions • Motion Scheduling • Session • Next Steps Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Kaua’i Next Steps • Need to open marketing coordination dialog with John Webb at Intel (John Webb, Intel, John.P.Webb@intel.com, +1.408.765.4238) • Draft a position on the charges issue for 802.15 review by January, 2000. Submit to IEEE by March, 2000. • Draft volunteers and Editorial Team lead to generate and submit to the IEEE and Bluetooth SIG a list of suggested Marketing material to support the IEEE Draft (primer, handbook, and companion). • Draft volunteers and Editorial Team lead to review Bluetooth Upper Layers to determine if there are other SDOs that might also be interested in paralleling the TG1 work if ETSI remains undecided. • Draft volunteers and lead to find out what commercial publications are available? Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Kaua’i Next Steps (cont.) • a) Provide a white paper to the IEEE on the TG1 perceived publishing issues for a joint standard, draft by January • b) List of suggested marketing material to support the IEEE draft eg handbook, companion, pocket guides Definitions audience content format commercial pubs draft January • c) Support High Rate effort; brainstorm • d) Determine if there are other SDOs that might also be interested in paralleling the TG1 work if ETSI remains undecided, brainstorm • e) Trademark "WPAN" protect URL list of 6 • g) Suggest website edits Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Kaua’i Next Steps (cont.) • Focus team "a" • Ian to draft first version of the procedure to be discussed at January meeting • Focus team "b" • Contact Bluetooth SIG and issue liaison letter directly to Bluetooth to determine what material is available • Focus team "d" • Keep ETSI as primary but explore other IEEE groups as secondary, with IETF as backup • Focus team "e" • Explore terms such as 802.15, POS, http://www wpan.com/org/net • Define a logo that will embellish the 802.15 team • Action Item: Ian Gifford to modify web site by adding search criteria that will help Internet Search engines capture our key words. Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Tel-Aviv Objectives • Approve HI Minutes -99/129r0 • Coordinate marketing with BT SIG • Marcom activities • Press release • Conferences • ETSI BRAN Liaison Status • Branding • Trademark status • URL status • Website • TG1 Standard Publication • Draft of Publication Procedure Proposal • Handbook and ancillary info for TG1 • Support Activities for TG2 • Support Activities for High Rate Study Group • Proposed tasks and individual/group assignments for the week in Tel Aviv, Israel Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
New MC Graphic Note: This graphic describes the weekly session of the IEEE P802.15, w/ MC highlighted. Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks Backup Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
P802.15 Publication Activity • “Standards groups eye unified broadband wireless specs”, Loring Wirbel, EE Times, 15 January 1999 • http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990115S0012 • “Progress Report: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Personal Area Network Study Group”, Open Systems Standards Tracking Report, Dick Braley and Ian Gifford, 11 March 1999 • <broken link> • IEEE P802.15 Working Group Press Release • http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/802.15.html Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
P802.15 Publication Activity (cont.) • IEEE Network Interactive, IEEE 802 Perspectives, Feature Column, July/August 1999 • http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/SB/1999/bearer_1999July.pdf • IEEE Standards Bearer, Vol. 13, No. 3 July 1999 • http://207.127.135.8/ni/public/1999/jul/index.html • IEEE P802.15 Working Group Press Release, 14 April 1999 • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/PR2.html Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
P802.15 Publication Activity (cont.) • "Paving The Way for Personal Area Network Standards: An Overview of The IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks" Thomas M. Siep, Ian C. Gifford, Richard C. Braley, Robert F. Heile, IEEE Personal Communications, The Magazine of Nomadic Communications and Computing - Special Issue on "Technologies for short range, wireless communications", February 2000 • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/bin/PCMag/PCMag.html There are six (6) Technical Papers planned for this up and coming publication. Watch for this! Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
P802.15 Publication Activity (cont.) • “Wireless Personal Area Networks: An Overview of the IEEE P802.15 Working Group”, Richard C. Braley, Federal Express Corporation, Ian C. Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc., Robert F. Heile, GTE Technology OrganizationMobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R), ACM SIGMOBILE, ? 2000 • [Draft---Article for Dr. Dobbs Journal], Dr. Dobb's Journal, ? 2000 Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Conference Tutorials & Presentations • Standards Development Organizations • IEEE Various • ETSI • IETF45 • MMAC • Commercial • Bluetooth Development Conference ’98, ‘99 • DSP World’99 • ISWC’97, ‘98, ‘99 • RAWCON’99 • TTL’98 • Varais’98 Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
Web Based MARCOM • WG Home Page • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/index.html • WG Press Releases HTML Page • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/PR.html • Marketing Committee HTML Page • http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/15/pub/MC.html • Off Site Links? • http://www.bluetooth.com/ • ? Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
AltaVista Search: “WPAN” • 88 Pages Found • Top 7 • 1. WPAN and Library Link • 2. 802exec: 5 Criteria for WPAN • 3. WPSD vs West Virginia (Oct. 14, 1997) • 4. IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) • 5. Class73 • 6. IEEE P802.11, Main general info page • 7. Location-Aware Wearable Computers & Voice Based Interaction • ... Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.
AltaVista Search: “P802.15” • 9 Pages Found • Top 3 • 1. IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) • 2. IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) • 3. IEEE P802 LMSC Launches New Working Group P802.15, on Wireless Personal Area • ... Ian Gifford, M/A-COM, Inc.