stds-802-16: IEEE 802.15 Millimeter Wave Interest Group
Here is an 802.15 announcement, for your information.
Although I disagree with the statement "Interest groups are the first step in the creation of a standard.", I do think that there is the potential for this activity to evolve into a standardization project.
Roger
>Millimeter Interest Group Call for Papers (CFP)
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>Contact: Reed Fisher, Chair, IEEE 802.15 Millimeter Wave Interest Group
>+1 770 271 0529, reedfisher@juno.com
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>IEEE 802.15 has formed an interest group to explore the use of the 60 GHz band for wireless personal area networks (WPANs), which generally have a range of 10 meters. This little-used, 5 GHz-wide portion of the radio spectrum (as defined in FCC 47 CFR 15.255) avoids interference with nearly
>all electronic devices, given the high attenuation of these wavelengths by walls and floors, and promises to allow more WPANs to occupy the same building.
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>The IEEE 802.15 Millimeter Wave Interest Group (mmWIG) was formed in July 2003 as part of an effort to study the development of a millimeter-wave-based alternative physical layer (PHY) for the IEEE high-rate WPAN standard (IEEE 802.15.3T-2003). Interest groups are the first
>step in the creation of a standard.
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>The initial meeting of the IEEE mmWIG was held in Singapore in September 2003. Future meetings are scheduled for 9 to 14 November 2003 in Albuquerque, N.M., USA, and 12 to 16 January 2004 in Vancouver, B.C., Canada (see http://www.ieee802.org/meeting/). Anyone who is interested in helping open the millimeter band for use in WPANs is invited to join the interest group.
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>The group has issued a call for papers for its upcoming meetings to help lay the groundwork for a millimeter-wave-based standard. Papers from industry, academia, regulatory bodies and other sources should describe original work related to the use of the 60 GHz band in WPANs in such areas as:
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> a.. Mobile and networked applications
> b.. Network protocols and performance
> c.. Mobile and ad-hoc networking
> d.. Mobile and ubiquitous systems
> e.. Network security
> f.. Internet computing
> g.. Wireless networks
> h.. Multimedia distribution
> i.. Last-mile applications
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>Five contributed papers were presented at the group's first meeting. These concerned: Japanese regulation for the 60 GHz band; mmW frequency allocation in Europe; a proposed mmW WPAN concept; proposed technical requirements for mmW WPANs; and mmW propagation modeling for WPANs. More info: http://ieee802.org/15/pub/2003/802Wirelessworld/
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>Papers for upcoming meetings of the IEEE mmW Interest Group should be sent electronically to either Reed Fisher, who chairs this group (reedfisher@juno.com), or to Robert F. Heile, Chair of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group (bheile@ieee.org). Papers should follow the IEEE 802.15 template (see http://ieee802.org/15/pub/Submission.html).
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>For more info on the IEEE 802.15 Working Group and the IEEE mmW Interest Group, see: http://ieee802.org/15/
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>Source: 15-03-0397-02
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>Sincerely,
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>Reed Fisher, Chair, IEEE 802.15 Millimeter Wave Interest Group
>+1 770 271 0529, reedfisher@juno.com