IEEE P802.15

Wireless Personal Area Networks

Project	IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Title	Minutes for 802.15 IG-BAN Meeting in Hyatt Jacksonville, FL, May 2006
Date Submitted	May, 2006
Source	[Yihong Qi]
[National Institute of Information and communications technologies, NICT]
[Yokosuka 239-0847, JAPAN]	Voice:	[+81 46-847-5092]
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Re:	802.15 IG-BAN Meeting in Hyatt Jacksonville, FL
Abstract	The document contains a summary of the work of the 802.15 BAN interest group during the week of May 15th to 19th 2006.
Purpose	Official minutes of the 802.15 IG-BAN.
Notice	This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein.
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Hyatt Jacksonville, FL

May 2006

Monday May 15

13:30	May 14;

1:30pm: the meeting called to order.

Motion: IG-BAN Chair: Arthur Astrin; vice chair Huan-bang Li; Secretary: Yihong Qi

Move by Eric Schylander, second by Ryuji Kohno

Favor: 19; abstain: 0; against: 0 --The motion carries unanimously.

Discussion on agenda, referred to doc.06/208/00:

Calling for response to applications, referred to doc. 06/151r2: 4 presentations scheduled

2:30pm: 15/06/241r0 presented by Huan-bang Li;

Abby Mathew: how the data rate is determined?

Data rates depend on aggregated information data required by applications.

Eric: Who conducts cooperation?

Depends on applications.

Comments by Art: the proposed data rates look high.

Because aggregate data rates are used.

Manuel Jamie: how about power consumption?

Up to be determined. Due to short distance, it should be low.

Eric: page 5, 12, any connection between BAN and other PAN or LAN?

Yes.

Olivier Rousseaux: are there any exclusive BAN applications cannot be provided by other standards?

Application with low power, short range and low interference.

Ryuji Kohno: I learn that FCC prohibits wireless applications to toy. How about FCC restriction on wireless games which is kind of toy?

Open questions

Eric: how longs is the switch-on time of the BAN applications in your presentation?

Depends on applications, e.g., several hours for video applications.

3:00pm: recess

4:00pm: meeting called for order

217r0 presented by Olivier

Kohno: Is asymmetric communications restricted by 802.15?

No.

Kohno: What is the difference between 15.4a and BAN?

BAN allows one-way transmission, lower power consumption and passive sensors.

Kohno raises concerns on coexistence.

Applications based on the architecture illustrated on page 7 targets the market in 5~10 years;

Ho-In Jeon: multihop cannot be realized by MAC?

Use relay techniques.

Art: what kind of antenna can produce the pattern on page 8?

omni-antenna whose resolution depends on the bandwidth used.

Shuzo Kato: Is it feasible to produce a 100uW device?

Rely on battery. Energy can be generated body temperature and/or movement.

Huan-bang: what kind position is measured by position sensors?

Regular human position, which can be same as that given by GPS.

4:50pm recess until Wed. 8am

Meeting Attendance: 25

Wednesday May 17, 2006

8:00am meeting called for order

Manuel Jamie presents doc.06/219

Open to discussion

Ryuji Kohno: what is the accuracy requirement on your ranging requirements?

Relative accuracy

Shusaku Shimada: what is the fundamental difference between PAN and BAN applications?

Applications are for the range of less than 2 to 5 meters, and may also have some overlay with PAN applications.

Shimada: Is BAN motivated from the viewpoint of customers and applications?

Yes.

Shimada: may not be correct.

Kohno: the channel models for BAN should be different from those for PAN. BAN applications are also under certain safety criteria set by entities such as FCC.

Kuor-Hsin Chang: why data error is measured by BER?

Because the raw data stream is concerned the BER is used; for compressed data PER is better, which is about 1% in our case.

Mike McInnis: any security concerns for your applications?

Yes. There is limitation on sharing data usage.

Mike: what is the frequency band of your applications?

Use the global unlicensed spectrum, while taking care of less interference to legacy systems.

Mike: Suggest the PAR address difference of BAN characteristics from PAN

Huan-bang: on slide 5, the coverage of BAN seems like 802.15.4a. We need to be careful to address the difference.

John Farserotu (from CSEM) presents doc 06/249.

Open to discussion

Huan-bang: what is the advantage of FM-UWB compared with DS-UWB and OFDM-UWB?

Enhanced coexistence and easy to achieve low energy consumption

Eric: Do you have any network architecture for the illustration on pp.6

It ranges from a low layer to application layers including security and interface.

Shimada: why is LDR focused on?

We introduce our work in the MAGNET project which includes LDR and HDR. LDR fits more for BAN applications. HDR applications will be discussed in this afternoon’s session.

Olivier: any distinction on medium and short-range applications?

No strict boundary. BAN is for private P-PAN not only in terms of range but also in terms of functions such as those which are wearable and nomadic, and can act as gate ways to PAN.

Art: do your BAN applications include implant devices?

Yes.

Ryuji: do you have any classifications on applications such as sports, health and entertainment.

In our future presentation.

Ryuji: do you think BAN would better focus on medical applications instead of broad applications?

Not necessary, many other applications are useful. But concentration on medical applications is a good point to start.

Plans for the Thursday session:

1. Two more presentations on Thursday.

2. Discussion regarding the distinct characteristics of BAN to be included in PAR?

3. Plan on the San Diego meeting

Ryuji: Suggest to invitate doctors for presentation regarding medical requirements on BAN.

Eric: Suggest to address regulatory issue such as restriction and safety requirements;

Ryuji: Suggest to work on classification of channel models depending on applications,

Art: Suggest to define what we are going to focus on such as wearable or implant devices.

9:45am recess

Thursday May 19, 2006

4:05pm meeting called for order

Art goes through doc. 274, which includes work which have been done in the Jacksonville meeting, how to turn IG-BAN to SG/WG, and BAN study items, etc

Art leads discussion on how we distinguish ourselves from other T/WGs, and reach the agreement on the following points

Operates on, inside, or in the vicinity of the body.

Limited range (< .01 – 2 meters)

The channel model will include human body effects. (absorption, health effects)

Extremely low consumption power (.1 to 1 mW) for each device

Capable of energy scavenging / battery-less operation

Support scalable Data Rate: 0.01 – 1,000 kbps (opt 10Mbps)

Support different classes of QoS for high reliability, asymmetric traffic, power constrained.

Needs optimized, low complexity MAC and Networking layer

High number of simultaneously operating piconets required.

Application specific, security/privacy required.

Small form factor for the whole radio, antenna, power supply system

Locating radios (” find me”) mode.

Discussion on plans for the July 2006 meeting, and reach agreement on the following items:

Tutorial session (invite medical service organization)

Presentations as responses to “Call for Technology and Regulatory issues”

5Cs, Draft of the criteria for standard development including broad market potential, compatibility, distinct identity, technical feasibility and economic feasibility

5:55pm Adjourn

Wednesday 1/18/06 Morning Session

Thursday

References:

15-06-0217-00-0ban-ban-usage-scenarios-and-applications

15-06-0219-00-0ban-ban-ig-call-applications-response-qc

15-06-0241-00-0ban-response-to-ig-bans-call-applications

15-06-0249-00-0ban-applications-in-ldr-panban-optimised-pn

May, 2006	doc.: IEEE 802.15-06-0278-00-0BAN

Page	Yihong Qi, NICT

March, 1994	DOC: IEEE P802.11-94/xxx

Submission	Page	D. Kawaguchi, Symbol Technologies

IEEE P802

Arthur W. Astrin

2006-05-22

Yihong Qi