The IEEE 802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks™ (WPANs™) reviewed and completed the required IEEE Project 802 Functional Requirements, Standards Development Criteria a.k.a. the Five Criteria. The IEEE 802.15 WPAN Five Criteria response, dated 18Mar99, is in italics below.
a) Broad sets of applicability
The increasing adoption of wearable and hand-held computing and communicating devices, and the proliferation of peripheral devices for them, has made clear the need to provide wireless connectivity, for such devices.
Examples of applications include Collaborative Maintenance, Mobile Worker, Medical Sensing, Data Synchronization, etc. Examples of devices, which can be networked, include Computers, PDA/HPCs, printers, microphones, speakers, bar code readers, sensors, displays, Pagers, and Cellular & PCS Phones.
The wireless capability will provide functionality, efficiency, productivity and, in some cases, safety of highly mobile workers using computing and communicating systems.
b) Multiple vendors and numerous users
The breadth of membership of this Wireless Personal Area Network™ (WPAN™) Study Group demonstrates the support of this PAR. Members include international wireless industry leaders, academic researchers, semiconductor manufacturers, system integrators, and corporate end users. Individuals from more than 30 companies participated in drafting this PAR. The target user base will be large as indicated by the growing demand for PDAs, HPCs, Pagers, Cellular & PCS Phones, etc.
c) Balanced costs (LAN versus attached stations)
The standard for Wireless Personal Area Network™ (WPAN™) will be developed with the aim that the connectivity costs will be a reasonably small fraction of the cost of the target devices e.g., PDA/HPCs, printers, microphones, speakers, bar code readers, sensors, displays, Pagers, and Cellular & PCS Phones.
IEEE 802 defines a family of standards. All standards shall be in conformance with IEEE 802.1 Architecture, Management and Interworking. All LLC and MAC standards shall be compatible with ISO 10039, MAC Service Definition1, at the LLC/MAC boundary. Within the LLC Working Group there shall be one LLC standard, including one or more LLC protocols with a common LLC/MAC interface. Within a MAC Working Group there shall be one MAC standard and one or more Physical Layer standards with a common MAC/Physical layer interface. Each standard in the IEEE 802 family of standards shall include a definition of managed objects, which are compatible with OSI systems management standards.
Note: This requirement is subject to final resolution of corrections and revision to current ISO 10039, currently inconsistent with ISO 8802 series standards.
The MAC (Medium Access Control) Layer of the Wireless Personal Area Network™ (WPAN™) Standard will be compatible with the IEEE 802 requirements for architecture, management, and inter-networking.
a) Substantially different from other IEEE 802 standards.
The 802.11 Standard may not provide balanced cost for the WPAN™ class of devices listed above.
The 802.11 Standard does not address the power consumption envelope of the WPAN™ class of devices listed above.
The 802.11 Standard may not address the reduced complexity requirements for the WPAN™ class of devices listed above.
The 802.11 Standard optimizes for throughput, distance, and roaming whereas the WPAN™ optimizes for low cost and low power consumption in a small form factor.
b) One unique solution per problem (not two solutions to a problem).
The Wireless Personal Area Network™ (WPAN™) Standard will consist of one Medium Access Control and Physical Layer per problem. We are unaware of any existing standard that will address this class of devices.
The Bluetooth Specification as currently drafted is not a standard and is not available in the public domain.
c) Easy for the document reader to select the relevant specification.
The proposed Wireless Personal Area Network™ (WPAN™) Standard will be a distinct document with clearly distinguishable specifications.
a) Demonstrated system feasibility
There are several research activities that lead us to believe that the power management, network frequency management, and network management services objectives of WPANs™ are feasible. Unlike WLANs, WPANs™ have a greater ability to trade-off range and bandwidth and still meet the essential requirements.
b) Proven technology, reasonable testing
There are examples of technology that exist today.
c) Confidence in reliability
The air interface protocol will be designed to meet commercial reliability standards. The data from existing products and prototypes representing candidate approaches provide confidence in the reliability of the proposed solutions.
a) Known cost factors, reliable data
Reduced performance requirements of WPANs™ will allow a substantially reduced cost of implementation over WLAN benchmarks. The use of 2.4 GHz by other high volume applications will provide a low cost source of components.
b) Reasonable cost for performance
Based on research results, prototype, and production solutions, implementation estimates meet requirements.
c) Consideration of installation costs
One of the WPAN™ standard objectives includes low cost installation with minimal operator intervention.
Our Study Group Sponsor, Vic Hayes P802.11 chair, added a sixth criteria. The following was our response.
We have identified WPAN™ coexistence with WLANs in the 2.4 GHz band as a critical success factor. Coexistence is defined as minimizing mutual interference such that the effect of the addition of a WPAN™ to a WLAN coverage area has approximately the same effect as adding an additional, non-co-operating WLAN, localised to the WPAN™ coverage area.
Source: 8161r56S_WPAN-Five-Criteria.doc
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