Standards Activities

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Standards Activities
Technical Activities Council VP Sergio
Benedetto ComSoc Standards Board Director of
Standards Alexander Gelman
TAC Report

• ICC2007, Glasgow

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IEEE/ComSoc Standards Board
Under TAC, Sergio Benedetto - VP
Director Alex Gelman, NETovations, IEEE-SA
Standards Board member
Steve Mills   HP
Dir-IEEE-SA/Standards Board
steve_mills_at_hp.com Raouf Boutaba Univ of
Waterloo ComSoc Dir -Related Societies
rboutaba_at_bbcr.uwaterloo.caRobert Fish
NETovations IEEE-SA/CAG, ComSoc-MC
robf_at_research.panasonic.comCurtis Siller ComSoc
Past President ca0404s_at_yahoo.comJohn Barr
Motorola Chair-IEEE802.15.3b
john.barr_at_motorola.comJim Hoffmayer Western
Telecom Consultants, Chair-IEEE1900.1 WG
JHoffmeyer_at_aol.comStanley Moyer Telcordia
Technologies ComSoc-Treasurer stanm_at_research.telco
rdia.comGerald Peterson Past president of
IEEE-SA ghpeterson_at_ieee.org
ComSoc Standards Board sponsors Standards in
IEEE-SA in both individual and entity-based
scenarios
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IEEE/ComSoc Standards BoardApproach to
Sponsorship of Standards
Project WG Individual or Corporate
representation Liaison to TC Request for Ad-Hoc
RGs (!!!)
Our major value add to WGs is Based on our access
to technical expertise pool
TC Support PUBs, TPC, WG Liaison Formation of
Ad-Hoc RGs (!!!)

Relevant MC Activity Workshops Conference Colloca
tion with WG
It is critical from liability point of view to
maintain neutrality with respect to specification
development
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Spectrum Management Projects

• 1. IEEE P1900.1
• Title Standard Terms, Definitions and Concepts
  for Spectrum Management,
• Policy Defined Radio, Adaptive Radio and Software
  Defined Radio
• Chair James Hoffmeyer Email
  JHoffmeyer_at_aol.com
• 2. IEEE P1900.2
• Title Recommended Practice for Interference and
  Coexistence Analysis
• Chair Stephen Berger (TEM Consulting) Email
  stephen.berger_at_cox-internet.com  
• 3. IEEE P1900.3
• Title Recommended Practice for Conformance
  Evaluation of Software
• Defined Radio (SDR) Software Modules
• Chair Andre Kruetzfeldt Email
  andre.kruetzfeldt_at_sun.com

• 4. IEEE P1901.4
• Title Architectural Building Blocks Enabling
  Network-Device Distributed Decision Making for
  Optimized Radio Resource Usage in Heterogeneous
  Wireless Access
• Networks
• WG Chair Soodesh Biljore, Motorola (France)
• The project is entity-based (one company one
  vote)

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Spectrum Management Project Status

• Standards Coordinating Committee, SCC41 -
  DYSPAN, has
• been formed
• Sponsors ComSoc and EMC
• IEEE-SA Standards Board decided that SCC41 shall
  have
• 2 co-chairs
• Steve Berger (EMC) has been approved as a
  co-chair
• It is highly desirable for ComSoc to nominate a
  co-chair
• DYSPAN Conference and Sub-Committee on Cognitive
  
• Networks have established a working level
  relationship with
• all four Working Groups
• ComSoc representatives in DYSPAN SCC are
• R. Chandramouli (Mouli) and Jim Hoffmeyer

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Broadband over Power Line
WG - IEEE1901
Chair Jean-Philippe Faure Vice Chair John Boot
TC PLC Stefano Galli Chair PUBs ComMag FT,
JSAC Special Issue Ad-Hoc Channel Model Cmtee
Conference ISPLC
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P1901 (BPL) Project
Status

• Working Group completed requirements phase
• Current phase is technical submissions
• Disruptive Item
• ATT and Verizon sent letters of concern to
• IEEE-SA Standards Board chair regarindg
• VDSL interference from BPL
• ComSoc as sponsor called a meeting to decide on
• the proper process to deal with the issue
• A VDSL Interference sub-group has been formed
• to work out a proposal to deal with VDSL
• Interference
• Alex will attend the P1901 WG meeting to observe
  the
• process and take part in the sub-group readout

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P1775, BPL-EMC Project

• This project is co-sponsored with PES and EMC
• Status Specification Draft has been completed
• ComSoc, EMC and PES signed an MOU by which a
  Draft Review Group
• has been formed in order to determine if the
  Draft is ready for sponsor ballot
• Groups consists of 12 people, 4 per sponsor
  society
• ComSoc representatives to the Draft Review Group
• are

Shinji Tanabe - Mitsubishi        Member of 1901
and of 1775 "Shinji Tanabe"  lt Tanabe.Shinji_at_dh.mi
tsubishielectric.co.jpgt Roland Gubisch -
Intertek    Member of 1901 and 1775, "Roland
Gubisch ES-BOX "  ltroland.gubisch_at_intertek.com gt
Purva Rajkotia - Intellon      Member of 1901,
not a member of 1775 "Purva Rajkotia" lt
purva.rajkotia_at_intellon.comgt Mohsen Kavehrad -
Pennsylvania State University, Not a member of
1901, not a member of 1775 mkavehrad_at_psu.edu
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Sponsored Projects Telephony

• 1. IEEE P1329
• Title IEEE Standard Method for Measuring
  Transmission Performance
• of Handsfree Telephone Sets.
• Sponsor ComSoc TAOS TC
• Chair John R. Bareham (Consultant in
  Electroacoustics) Email jbareham_at_mich.com
• 2. IEEE P661
• Title IEEE Standard Method for Determining
  Objective Loudness Ratings
• of Telephone Connections.
• Sponsor ComSoc TAOS TC
• Chair John R. Bareham (Consultant in
  Electroacoustics) Email jbareham_at_mich.com

ComSoc TC Transmission, Access and Optical
Systems TAOS, Chair - Mohsen Guizani
Subcommittee on Telephone Instrument Testing
-STIT, Chair-John Bareham ltjbareham_at_mich.comgt. Li
aison to Standards Board - Stefano Bregni
(Politecnico di Milano) Email
bregni_at_elet.polimi.it 
Project is due for renewal
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IEEE/ComSoc Standards BoardCo-sponsored Project
RFID P1902
WG Chair John Stevens, Visible Assets Proposed
(by ComSoc) number P1902 Dual-sponsorship
ComSoc and IEEE-SA/CAG Corporate Entity based
project
Corporations

• Candidate Protocol RuBee IV
• Application Networks of thousands of tags in
  peer-to-peer mode
• LW under 450Khz
• Speed300-9600 baud
• Consumption Few microamps in standby and less
  than 1 mA
• in active mode
• Designed to operate in harsh industrial
  environments

Best Buy, Visible Assets, NS-Design Inc., Savi
Networks, Epson
This WG has not established a relationship with
Sensor Networks TC.
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New Project Next Generation Services Network

• Championed by Huawei
• CAG and ComSoc are sponsors
• PAR has been submitted prior to ComSocs
• agreement to co-sponsor
• IEEE-SA NESCOM had positive comments
• ComSoc Standards Board decided to abort the
• PAR and form a Study Group
• Study Groups mission is

• Rework the Scope
• Obtain wider Industry support
• Define proper liaisons

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NGSN Project Status

• ComSoc Standards Board and CAG declared
• sponsorship of the NGSN Study Group
• Jim Carlo (Huaweis consultant) is approved as
  Chair
• As of now the vision on the project mission

The goal of the Next Generation Service Network
(NGSN) study group will be to develop an IEEE
Project Authorization Request (PAR) for a
project to standardize an overlay network
architecture for the life cycle management of
multiple, value-added collaborative, information
and communication services, independent of
transport network.
URL http//grouper.ieee.org/groups/ngsn/index.htm
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NGSN Study Group Sponsorship

• Mehmet Ulema has been appointed ComSoc technical
  liaison to
• the. He will provide Technical consulting to
  the Study Group
• NOMS TC is encouraged to assume technical
  mentorship
• Responsibility for the project means

• Process integrity
• Technical quality of the standard
• Adequate constituency, industry support
• Positioning in Global Standardization value
  chain

• First official meeting is to take place on
  August in Shenzhen
• Alex is going to represent ComSoc Board
• It is expected (but probably unlikely) that PAR
  will be ready
• For Fall submission to NESCOM

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ComSoc/ITU-T Interaction

• A meeting with ITU-T representatives took place
• on June 25, 2007
• ComSoc was represented by
• Alex Gelman, Rob Fish, Curtis Siller
  (Standards Baord),
• Raouf Boutaba (SRC),
• Fred Bauer (MC),
• Yoichi Maeda (CommMag) - on the phone.
• (Thomas La Porta and Tom Chen were on the
  email discussion)
• IEEE-SASB - Glenn Parsons (on the phone)
• ITU-T was represented by Toby Johnson (in
  person),
• Reinhard Scholl (on the phone)

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ComSoc/ITU-T Proposed Action

• ComSoc will technically co-sponsor Kaleidoscope
• event (at least the first one in 2008), an NGN
  technical
• meeting by ITU-T
• A ITU-T dedicated publication on NGN will be
  planned
• in one of the following scenarios ComMag FT,
  ComMag
• Supplement, or Communications Letters
• A JSAC NGN Special Issue (or series) is going
  to be
• considered
• An MOU is going to be worked out by Related
  Societies
• Board (Raouf Boutaba)

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Technical Activities and StandardsTCs Role in
Sponsored Standards

• TCs Should establish liaisons with relevant
• IEEE-SA WGs, e.g. 802 series
• TCs should be on the lookout for standardization
• opportunities and initiate Study Groups
• under IEEE-SA umbrella
• When appropriate, TC should collaborate with
• their peer groups in other IEEE societies
• TCs should provide technical support to WG by
  creating
• Research Task Groups on request of WGs,
  organizing
• relevant to WG technical meetings and
  conference,
• run publication projects
• TC can be a SG and Standards Sponsor (need
  proper PPs)

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IEEE/ComSoc Standards BoardWeb Presence
ComSoc Standards Board Official
Page http//www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/
techcom/standardsboard.html ComSoc Standards
Board Private Page (contains contact information
of Standards Board members and various
documents) http//72.41.36.136/