IEEE 802.17 Performance Committee Plans

1. IEEE 802.17 Performance CommitteePlans Khaled Amer Interim Meeting Orlando, FL May 2001

2. Plans • Start work according approved charter for the committee • Meeting tonight after WG meeting • Work on Defining Phase II • Establish objectives and plans for work till July • Decision NOT to have bi-weekly conf calls • Set up web site linked to the 802.17 WG site • Strongly encourage using metrics and framework defined in Phase I, and contribute towards defining those of Phase II Performance Adhoc Committee IEEE 802.17 - Interim Meeting - Orlando

3. PHASE II • TCP/IP • CoS • Protection schemes • Vary number of nodes • Confidence intervals • Poisson distributions • Isolation of architectural features • Committed information rates Performance Adhoc Committee IEEE 802.17 - Interim Meeting - Orlando

4. Phase II scenarios • Raw packets with some burstiness: • Poisson • On/Off scenarios • Bursty sources • TCP • UDP • Combinations Performance Adhoc Committee IEEE 802.17 - Interim Meeting - Orlando

5. Suggestions for Phase III • Attach ring to network Performance Adhoc Committee IEEE 802.17 - Interim Meeting - Orlando

6. Action Items • Draft document for Phase I • Dave James to update and send on reflector • Wolfram and Harmen to provide Dave with examples of suggested result charts • Draft to be posted by end of May 2001 • Harry Peng to define model boundaries • Sanjay Agrawal to propose TCP parameters, framework and apps. traffic models Performance Adhoc Committee IEEE 802.17 - Interim Meeting - Orlando

7. Action Items ... • List of people with proposals (Khaled Amer) • Minutes (Taylor Salman) • Confidence intervals (Harmen/Wolfram) • Web site for performance committee (Khaled Amer) • Kick off work on defining other paramters for Phase II (Khaled Amer) Performance Adhoc Committee IEEE 802.17 - Interim Meeting - Orlando