Wi-Fi Alliance TGn Marketing Task Group Status

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Wi-Fi Alliance TGn Marketing Task Group Status

• Paul Feinberg
• Co-Chair of the
• Wi-Fi Alliance
• TGn Marketing Task Group

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Wi-Fi Alliance High Throughput Marketing TG -
Background

• High Throughput (HT) MRD Task Group formed in
  June
• Prepared Marketing Requirements Document (MRD)
  with following objectives
• Contribute to TGn process
• Apply to test approach for Wi-Fi Certification
• Developed common position of participating Wi-Fi
  Alliance companies

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High Throughput MRD Task Group Member Companies
AMD G. Hillman Sharp V. Vathulya
Agere M. Cramer Sony P. Feinberg
Airgo R. DeVegt Symbol C. Hinsz
Broadcom S. Palm TI W. Carney
Cisco J. Kruyz Trapeze M. Audeh
IceFyre T. Burns WFA J. Williams
Intel J. Pitarresi Wavion Yaron Dycian
Linksys A. Houtari
Motorola M. Maupin
Primary representative from each company
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Salient MRD Requirements

• Significant performance enhancements
• Increase in throughput at MAC SAP
• 100mbps _at_ 15m
• Improved range at a given throughput
• 10mbps _at_ 100m
• Improved robustness to interference
• SINR 15dB _at_ 15m vs. 3dB _at_ 100m
• More uniform service within the coverage of an AP
  or service area
• 95 coverage
• One HT device could be used in all three market
  segments (residential, enterprise and hot spot)
  Single PHY
• Fair sharing of medium with legacy Wi-Fi devices
  irrespective of transmission rate
• Backwards compatibility -- Implement basic
  CSMA/CA to allow for co-existence on same
  channel mods allowed with fallback to legacy
• HT mode does not prevent efficient operation in
  non-BSS topology

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Target Markets

• Domestic and commercial entertainment and ad-hoc
  information processing (Infotainment)
• Business and Institutional Information Processing
  (Business)
• Public Internet Service (Services)

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High Throughput Applications
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Environments
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Environment (continued)
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Task Group Status

• Finalized version of MRD (available on SNAP
  server)
• MRD circulated to Wi-Fi Alliance membership for
  comment
• Recent task group vote approved current version
  for submission to TGn
• Task Group will continue to maintaining document
  through December

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Next Steps

• Complete MRD comment resolution process
• Continue alignment with TGn and DHWG
• Final version of MRD in December
• Feed into Wi-Fi Certification process