Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)

1. Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title:[Reports on Teleconferences after the Dallas Meeting in Nov. 2013] Date Submitted: [ Jan. 20th, 2013] Source:[Seungkwon Cho] Company:[ETRI] Address: [218 Gajeong-ro, Yuseong-gu, 305-700, Republic of Korea] Fax:[+82-42-861-1966] E-Mail:[skcho@etri.re.kr] Re:[] Abstract: [This document is a summary of IEEE 802.15 TG8 Teleconferences took place after the Dallas Meeting in Nov. 2013.] Purpose:[To report a summary of IEEE 802.15 TG8 Teleconferences took place after the Dallas Meeting in Nov. 2013.] 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. Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P802.15. Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

2. Teleconference Schedule • Two teleconferences took place after the Dallas meeting in Nov. 2013. • First Teleconference: • December 5th, Thursday 6:00PM US EST (8 AM Friday KOREA/JAPAN, 12:00PM Thursday Europe ) • Agenda: Report harmonization status (PHY, MAC) • Second Teleconference: • January 8th, 2014 Wednesday 8:00 AM US EST (10 PM Wednesday KOREA/JAPAN, 2:00PM Wednesday Europe) • Agenda: Report harmonization status (PHY, MAC) Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

3. The 1st Teleconference • Dates and Time: • December 5th, Thursday 6:00 PM ~ 7:01 PM US EST • Presider: • The Vice Chair, Huan-Bang Li. • Attendees* • Myung Lee, Huan-Bang Li, Hyungjin Kim, Igor Dotlic, Marco Hernandez, Qing Li, Seokki Kim, Seung-Hoon Park, Seungkwon Cho, Soojung Jung, and Suhwook Kim. • Announced agenda: • Report of harmonization status (PHY: Marco Hernandez, MAC: Qing Li). * Listed in alphabetical order except for the Chair Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

4. The 1st Teleconference • Summary • Marco Hernandez reported the latest update of PHY harmonization status • Clarified “6.4 Multiplexing” by inserting subclause “Multicarrier modulation” • Need to replace published standard text of UWB PHY (802.15.4a) with just the reference to it. • Igor Dotlic mentioned the harmonization status between NICT and DecaWave. • Qing Li reported the latest update of MAC harmonization status • Qing Li suggested all the proposers to trim their text in the draft PFD because they were too detail to harmonize with each other. • There was discussion on “high-level” • PFD should be a ‘high level’ description which leaves chances to propose good idea after call for contribution. Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

5. The 1st Teleconference • Summary (cont’d) • Some common features should be extracted from the current PFD to activate TG8 discussions. The extraction works are assigned as follows: • PHY component: Seung-Hoon Park (Technical editor) / Marco Hernandez (PHY ad hoc leader) •  MAC component: Byung-Jae Kwak (Technical editor) / Qing Li (MAC ad hoc leader) • Attendees agreed that two Editors came up with a draft PFD at a proper level of description until the next teleconference. • With acceptable level and acceptable contents • Seungkwon Cho(ETRI) presented “A suggestion for harmonized PAC frame structure “ (DCN: 737r0) Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

6. The 2nd Teleconference • Dates and Time: • January 8th, 2014 Wednesday 8:00 AM ~ 8:59 AM US EST. • Presider: • The Vice Chair, Suhwook Kim. • Attendees*: • Myung Lee, Billy Verso, Byung-Jae Kwak, Huan-Bang Li, Hyungjin Kim, Igor Dotlic, Jeongseok Yu, Marco Hernandez, Michael McLaughlin, Qing Li, Seokki Kim, Seong-Soon Joo, Seung-Hoon Park, Seungkwon Cho, Soojung Jung, Suhwook Kim, and Woongsoo Na. • Announced agenda: • Report of harmonization status (PHY: Marco Hernandez, MAC: Qing Li). * Listed in alphabetical order except for the Chair Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

7. The 2nd Teleconference • Summary • Marco Hernandez presented “PHY frame structures comparison and harmonization” (DCN: 15-14-0002-02-0008) • A way of harmonization among <737r0>, <377r0> , <707r2> and <373r1> was proposed. • Byung-Jae Kwak presented “TG8 PAC Framework Document (Draft)” (DCN: 15-13-0328-09-0008) • Basicallythe same as revision 8 with some clean up. • Byung-Jae Kwak presented “Proposal for PFD” (DCN: 15-14-0008-00-0008) • A proposal on how to generate texts for PFD by the Editors was presented including “Comment-edit” cycle schedule. Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)

8. The 2nd Teleconference • Summary (cont’d) • The Chair announced that • The Editors would come up with baseline PFD considering all the proposals. • PAC participants were encouraged to help the 2 rounds of “Comment-edit” leaded by the Editors, before the next face-to-face meeting. • Marco Hernandez mentioned that 741r0 included a harmonized text of PHY for PFD • The MAC editor pointed out that the document is too detail in general. Seungkwon Cho (ETRI)