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Description and Goals
The goals of WWRF Working Group 5 (WG5) are to:
- Study and champion short range wireless communications as a part of the Wireless World, and
disseminate related results within the WWRF community and externally, in white papers and
"white presentations";
- Ensure that all aspects of short range wireless communications are considered within WWRF and that,
where they fall within the remit of other WWRF groups, the required information flows to and from
WG5 exist.
The creation of subgroups with a strong interest in specific short range communication systems or technologies
(such as sensor networks, WLAN) is encouraged, so as to seed common contributions and white papers.
WG5 aims to be a neutral forum for academia and industry, where visions, requirements, and results relevant
to future or on-going external activities can be discussed, so that they spread across regions and domains,
and enable early harmonization. We encourage people from the most relevant activities to come and make presentations
within WWRF and/or WG5, to create alliances that promote clear, attractive, and technically sound visions,
and possible solutions, for future short range communication systems.
Scope
WG5 addresses "Air interface aspects of local and personal area networks, body area networks, home networks,
vehicle area networks, ad-hoc networks and other short range communications systems".
"Other short range communications systems" within the scope of WG5 can include sensor networks, free-space
optical communication systems, ultra wide band systems and non-communication capabilities related to short
range communication technologies (e.g. location computation).
Work in WG5 takes into account both PHY and MAC layer studies (ranging from advanced receiver techniques to
power- and QoS-aware protocols), as well as implementation issues (from RF front ends to complexity
assessments) and cross-layer optimization.
Among the large number of parameters (e.g. range, bit-rate, power, purpose of connection, Doppler shift/spread)
which can be used to characterize short range wireless communication systems, the definition of the scope of
WG5, with respect to other WWRF WGs, focuses on two:
- the purpose of the network; and
- the range of wireless links.
Within WG5, we mainly seek to provide localized "single system" communications, using wireless links that have
an operating range of up to a few hundred meters. This is in opposition to country-wide network coverage,
that enables access to another mobile device potentially far away from the local sphere of interaction.
Work within WG5 hence concentrates on levels 1-3 of the multisphere model (PAN, Immediate Environment,
Instant Partners), as presented in the WWRF Book of Visions, while other levels, treating wide
area and global network connectivity (including wireless and fixed systems, as well as interfaces between
different standards), are mainly in the scope of other Working Groups.
Communication
Communication outside the meetings will be conducted through dedicated mailing lists and exploders to
distribute information such as meeting minutes or general announcements of interest to working group members: wg5@wireless-world-research.org.
To subscribe, please contact the mailing list administrator at mail-lists@wireless-world-research.org.
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