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IEEE
APPROVES IEEE 802.15.1 STANDARD FOR WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS
ADAPTED FROM THE BLUETOOTH® SPECIFICATION
New Standard Fosters Wireless PANs for Notebook Computer,
PDAs, Cell Phones and Other Portable, Handheld Devices
Contact:
Ian Gifford, +1 978 815 8182, giffordi@ieee.org
Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian, +1 914 784 7439, bisdik@us.ibm.com
Bob Heile, +1 508 222 1393, bheile@ieee.org
Karen McCabe (732) 562-3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., March 21, 2002 – The Standards Board of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association
(IEEE-SA) has approved the IEEE Standard 802.15.1 ("Wireless
MAC and PHY Specifications for Wireless Personal Area Networks
(WPANs™)", which is adapted from portions of the Bluetooth™
wireless specification.
IEEE licensed
wireless technology from the Bluetooth SIG, Inc., to adapt and
copy a portion of the Bluetooth specification as base material
for IEEE Standard 802.15.1-2002. The approved IEEE 802.15.1 standard
is fully compatible with the Bluetooth v1.1 specification. Bluetooth
technology defines specifications for small-form-factor, low-cost
wireless radio communications among notebook computers, personal
digital assistants, cellular phones and other portable, handheld
devices, and connectivity to the Internet.
“The
new standard gives the Bluetooth spec greater validity and support
in the market and is an additional resource for those who implement
Bluetooth devices,” says Ian Gifford, IEEE 802.15 Working
Group Vice Chair. “This collaboration is a good example of
how a standards development organization and a special industry
group (SIG) can work together to improve an industry specification
and also create a standard.
“Under
the agreement between the two, the IEEE brought together a great
many experts from around the world to scrutinize and enhance the
Bluetooth specification. We received thousands of comments, and
the Bluetooth SIG applied more than 300 of them to the original
Bluetooth spec.”
In speaking
about the collaboration, Tom Siep, General Manager, Bluetooth
SIG, Inc., says: "The peer review process the IEEE-SA brought
to bear in standardizing the lower layers of our specification
was an invaluable service; it created many changes and additions
that improved the overall document. We appreciate our ongoing
relationship with the IEEE-SA."
The IEEE standard
also added a major clause on Service Access Points, which includes
an LLC/MAC interface for the ISO/IEC 8802-2 LLC, a normative annex
that provides a protocol implementation conformance statement
(PICS) pro forma, and an informative, high-level behavioral ITU-T
Z.100 specification and description language (SDL) model for an
integrated Bluetooth MAC Sublayer. This SDL model offers an extensive
overview (more than 500 pages long) of a significant portion of
the Bluetooth protocols e.g., Baseband, LMP, L2CAP, and the Link
Manager (using the host controller interface (HCI)).
The IEEE-SA
also plans to further develop the 802.15.1 SDL model source to
support the standard. The SDL code, which will be available on
CD-ROM, will include a computer model for use with any SDL tool
that supports the SDL-88, SDL-92 or SDL-2000 update of ITU-T Recommendation
Z.100. The IEEE 802.15.1 Working Task Group used the SDL to translate
the natural language of the Bluetooth Specification into a formal
specification that defines how the Bluetooth protocols react to
events in the environment that are communicated to a system by
signals.
About the
Bluetooth Special Interest Group
Bluetooth™ wireless technology is set to revolutionize the
personal connectivity market by providing freedom from wired connections
for portable handheld devices. The Bluetooth SIG is driving development
of the technology and bringing it to market. The SIG is comprised
of telecommunications, computing, network, and consumer electronics
industry leaders and includes Promoter group companies 3Com Corporation,
Ericsson Technology Licensing AB, IBM Corporation, Intel Corporation,
Agere Systems, Inc, Microsoft Corporation, Motorola Inc., Nokia
Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, as well as hundreds of Associate
and Adopter member companies. For more information on the Bluetooth
SIG, visit: http://www.bluetooth.org/
About the
IEEE 802.15 Working Group
The IEEE 802.15 Working Group, a part of the IEEE 802® LAN/MAN
Standards Committee, develops Personal Area Network consensus
standards for short distance wireless networks; a.k.a. WPANs™
These WPANs address wireless networking of portable and mobile
computing devices such as PCs, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs),
peripherals, cell phones, pagers, and consumer electronics; allowing
these devices to communicate and interoperate with one another.
For more information on this working group, visit: http://ieee802.org/15/
About the
IEEE-Standards Association
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), an internationally recognized
standards-setting body, develops consensus standards through an
open process that brings diverse parts of an industry together.
It has a portfolio of more than 870 completed standards and more
than 400 in development. IEEE-SA promotes the engineering process
by creating, developing, integrating, sharing and applying knowledge
about electro- and information technologies and sciences for the
benefit of humanity and the profession. For more information on
the IEEE-SA, visit: http://standards.ieee.org/
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IEEE 802.15.1,
WPANs are trademarks of the IEEE. All other names or product names
are the trademarks, service marks or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
The Bluetooth
name and Bluetooth trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
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