IEEE
FORMS GROUP TO EXPLORE WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORKS AT 60 GHz
IEEE
Millimeter Wave Interest Group Considers Band Having Little Competition
from Other Users
Contact:
Reed Fisher, Chair, IEEE 802.15.3 Millimeter
Wave Interest Group
+1 770 271 0529, reedfisher@juno.com
or
Karen McCabe, IEEE Marketing Manager
+1 732-562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., USA, 2 October 2003 The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers has formed an interest group to explore
the use of the 60 GHz band for wireless personal area networks
(WPANs), which generally have a range of 10 meters. This little-used,
7 GHz-wide portion of the radio spectrum (as defined in FCC 47
CFR 15.255) avoids interference with nearly all electronic devices,
given the high attenuation of these wavelengths by walls and floors,
and promises to allow more WPANs to occupy the same building.
The IEEE 802.15.3(TM)
Millimeter Wave Interest Group (mmWIG) was formed in July 2003
as part of an effort to develop a millimeter-wave-based alternative
physical layer (PHY) for the IEEE high-rate WPAN standard, IEEE
802.15.3(TM)-2003. Interest groups are the first step in the creation
of a standard.
The initial
meeting of the IEEE mmWIG was held in Singapore in September.
Future meetings are scheduled for 9 to 14 November in Albuquerque,
N.M., USA, and 12 to 16 January in Vancouver, B.C., Canada (see
http://www.ieee802.org/meeting/).
Anyone who is interested in helping open the millimeter band for
use in WPANs is invited to join the interest group.
The group
has issued a call for papers for its upcoming meetings to help
lay the groundwork for a millimeter-wave-based standard. Papers
from industry, academia, regulatory bodies and other sources should
describe original work related to the use of the 60 GHz band in
WPANs in such areas as:
· Mobile and networked applications
· Network protocols and performance
· Mobile and ad-hoc networking
· Mobile and ubiquitous systems
· Network security
· Internet computing
· Wireless networks
· Multimedia distribution
· Last-mile applications.
Five contributed
papers were presented at the group's first meeting. These concerned:
Japanese regulation for the 60 GHz band; mmW frequency allocation
in Europe; a proposed mmW WPAN concept; proposed technical requirements
for mmW WPANs; and mmW propagation modeling for WPANs.
Papers for
upcoming meetings of the IEEE mmW Interest Group should be sent
electronically to either Reed Fisher, who chairs this group (reedfisher@juno.com),
or to Robert F. Heile, Chair of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group
(bheile@ieee.org). Papers
should follow the IEEE 802.15 template (see http://ieee802.org/15/pub/Submission.html).
For more info
on the IEEE 802.15 Working Group and the IEEE mmW Interest Group,
see: http://ieee802.org/15/.
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