MAC Improvements Proposal Summary - Eaton

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Project IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title
Summary of Proposed IEEE 802.15.4
Improvements Date Submitted 12 Nov,
2003 Source Marco Naeve Company Eaton
Corporation Address 4201 North 27th Street,
Milwaukee, WI 53216, USA Voice414-449-7270,
FAX [phone], E-Mailmarconaeve_at_eaton.com
Re Robert Poors document with the number
802.15-03-0470-01, Rene Struiks proposal with
the number 15-03-0320-02-0040, Marco Naeves
proposal with the document number
802.15-03-0445-00-0040, Pat Kinneys proposal
with the document number 802.15-03/286r0, Ed
Callaways proposal with the document number
(802.15-03/306r0 ) TG4 meeting minutes from
Albuquerque meeting Abstract This document
summarizes the proposed improvements to the
current IEEE 802.15.4 MAC sub-layer. Purpose Fo
r discussion within the IEEE 802.15.4 task group
on future work and direction. 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.
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Roberts Proposals (802.15-03-0470-01)

• Clarify ambiguity on promiscuous mode.

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Marcos Proposals (802.15-03-0445-00)

• Add CHANNEL_ACCESS_FAILURE as valid status to the
  MLME-SCAN.confirm primitive for active scans.
• Eliminate BUSY_RX, BUSY_TX, and FORCE_TRX_OFF
  from the PHY enumerations to reduce complexity.
• Drop beacons payload during MAC scanning.
• Make GTS optional for FFD.
• Allow MAC association response frames to be send
  immediately (not indirect).

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Renes Proposals (15-03-0320-02-0040)

• Add CCM mode.
• Add support for multicast.
• Investigate MAC header compression to reduce
  overhead.

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Pats Proposals (802.15-03/286r0)

• Highly accurate distributed clock.
• Making GTS optional for FFD.

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Hanss Proposal (document number)

• Utilizing the potentially additional channels in
  the 868MHz band.

Eds Proposal (802.15-03/306r0)

• Half-rate PHY for the 868/915MHz bands.