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doc.: IEEE 802.11-15/0648r0
Submission
May 2015
Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)Slide 1
Wi-Fi Alliance Update
Date: 2015-05-13
Name Company Address Phone email
Edgar Figueroa Wi-Fi Alliance 10900-B Stonelake Boulevard Suite 126 Austin, TX 78759 USA
+1 512 498 9434 [email protected]
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May 2015
Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Agenda
• Background, and our mutual success
• Brief Wi-Fi market facts
• Wi-Fi Alliance at a glance
• Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
• Summary
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Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Background (1 of 2)
• Thank you for the opportunity to address you
• Both IEEE 802.11 and Wi-Fi Alliance can take credit for Wi-Fi’s tremendous success the past 15+ years
• Wi-Fi Alliance continues to regard IEEE, and we continue to rely on 802.11 work in particular. IEEE is one of our most important peer organizations
• Our success has required minimal interaction—IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance have focused on our strengths independently
• The current range of activity in both organizations may mean that this is an important time to ensure sufficient communications are happening
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Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Background (2 of 2)
• In discussions with 802.11 leadership (S. McCann, J. Rosdahl, D. Stanley, A. Stephens,) we agreed to bilateral updates as needed in order to aid better mutual understanding
• Recently Wi-Fi Alliance has instituted a number of new practices that should be of interest to 802.11, and we will share those with you today
• Since this is the first time Wi-Fi Alliance staff has presented to 802.11, we also include some context on the state of Wi-Fi
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Brief Wi-Fi Market Facts:More than ten billion devices sold—sales growth continues
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Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Brief Wi-Fi Market Facts:
We have succeeded with 802.11ac
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Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Wi-Fi Alliance® At A Glance
Industry-leading Industry-leading collaboration forumcollaboration forum
Industry-leading Industry-leading collaboration forumcollaboration forum
25,000+ Wi-Fi 25,000+ Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ CERTIFIED™
productsproducts
25,000+ Wi-Fi 25,000+ Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ CERTIFIED™
productsproducts
600+ member 600+ member companies companies worldwideworldwide
600+ member 600+ member companies companies worldwideworldwide
20+ development 20+ development projectsprojects
20+ development 20+ development projectsprojects
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Edgar Figueroa (Wi-Fi Alliance)
Recent Wi-Fi Alliance program information updates
• Wi-Fi Alliance specifications are now available to the public at no cost– Completed specifications are posted here: https://
www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/specifications – Draft specifications will be considered for public release after they meet certain
requirements • Wi-Fi Alliance “Current Work Areas” information now available
from our public webpage – https://www.wi-fi.org/who-we-are/current-work-areas– The page includes brief program descriptions
• Wi-Fi Alliance will publish 1-3 program description slides for each work area after a milestone is completed (Market Requirements Document Section 3)
– Suitable for public distribution– Members can port this information into their own product collateral and other
publications – You may see some of this material from some of our member companies in their
materials
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Wi-Fi Alliance is a member-driven organization
Wi-Fi Alliance membership is available to any commercial entity with a demonstrated interest in Wi-Fi. Members must accept certain membership
agreement terms, an IPR policy, and membership fees
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WI-FI ALLIANCE WORK AREAS
The following updates may also be found on our public website
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Several task groups focus on the needs of specific industry groups, including:Automotive•Goal: identify and define automotive segment needs and use cases for current and future Wi-Fi technology. Examine new standards and technologies, and act as the focal point for developing best practices for Wi-Fi implementation in the automotive market.Healthcare•Goal: Improve Wi-Fi Alliance visibility into healthcare industry activities in both the clinical and personal segments.
Internet of Things (IoT)•Goal: Gather Wi-Fi market needs and use cases for the IoT marketplace and provide IoT-focused certification guidance. Provide an opportunity for IoT solution providers to input suggestions, insights and end-user feedback to the Wi-Fi industry. Operators•Goal: Outline the needs for Wi-Fi in the service provider marketplace. Define requirements that align with operators’ needs, and provide operator perspective to other Wi-Fi Alliance task groups.
Wi-Fi Alliance Industry Segment Task Groups
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Application Service Platform 2.0•Goal: Build on the application service platform functionality in features added to Wi-Fi Direct® in 2014, resulting in a reusable, modular platform that existing and future Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ programs can easily adopt.Coexistence•Goal: Study coexistence mechanisms enabling shared use of unlicensed spectrum and define Wi-Fi network baseline performance evaluation. Explore key aspects of fair coexistence and equal access to unlicensed spectrum from a Wi-Fi perspective.
Converged Wireless, with CTIA®
•Goal: Characterize RF behavior of devices incorporating Wi-Fi and cellular radios. Benchmark Wi-Fi RF properties when a device is operating solely on a Wi-Fi network, or operating simultaneously on Wi-Fi and cellular networks, to help vendors and operators create an optimal user experience. Device Provisioning Protocol•Goal: Enhance the user experience with a simple, secure, and consistent method for on- and off-boarding any device on a Wi-Fi network, including devices without a rich user interface. Key to the enablement of a Wi-Fi Internet of Things.
Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
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Mobile Multimedia•Goal: Investigate requirements for a certification program that will continue to improve the user experience for multimedia devices when connected to Wi-Fi networks in public hotspots, enterprise environments, and homes.Location•Goal: Investigate a technology and certification program to establish a common mechanism for determining location in the vicinity of Wi-Fi CERTIFIED APs, positioning Wi-Fi-enabled location as the interoperable indoor location technology for users and venue administrators across products from a range of brands. Based on IEEE 802.11v
Extended Range ah•Goal: Define requirements for an interoperability certification program based on the upcoming IEEE 802.11ah standard, using unlicensed spectrum below 1 GHz. Multiband Operation•Goal: Explore technology and certification requirements to improve network performance through the efficient use of available frequency bands. Infrastructure and client devices will exchange information to enable intelligent band selection decisions. May be extended to additional frequency bands as they come into use.
Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
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Optimized Connectivity Experience•Goal: Deliver a better user experience in dense, managed network environments. OCE will use systemic information to shorten connection setup, reduce airtime overhead, optimize transitions, and improve roaming performance.Security•Goal: Ensure Wi-Fi CERTIFIED security mechanisms maintain effective security controls. Currently addressing problems resulting from weak passwords and emerging needs for support of additional cryptographic algorithms and policies, such as those specified in Suite-B in security-sensitive environments
Network Power Save•Goal: Enable Wi-Fi CERTIFIED devices to sleep for longer periods, extending the battery life of the device, both during times when applications are generating data traffic and when they are not. Based on IEEE 802.11vSensor Net•Goal: Explore technology and certification requirements for a low power Wi-Fi solution for home automation and monitoring that builds on today’s Wi-Fi CERTIFIED technologies, supporting Wi-Fi’s proliferation into power-sensitive devices that are remotely and directly accessible.
Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
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Spectrum and Regulatory Task Group
•Goal: Promote the worldwide availability, harmonization and suitability of spectrum for use by RLAN (Radio Local Area Network) products by representation to relevant governmental and inter-governmental organizations, as well as Standards Development Organizations (SDO) and Special Interest Groups (SIG). Encourage “RLAN-friendly” regulations, seeking changes where necessary to achieve harmonization and/or ease burdensome restrictions that inhibit the use and effectiveness of RLANs.
Timing Measurement•Goal: Investigate a certification requirements for a synchronization mechanism where a task is performed by distributed Wi-Fi devices, such as synchronization of audio streams to multiple speakers or collection of time-stamped data from multiple sensors.Wi-Fi CERTIFIED ac (Release 2)•Goal: Program update to include certain enhancements, including Multi-user MIMO, allowing more devices to transfer more data over the same network
Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
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White Spaces•Goal: Investigate the certification requirements for white spaces technology, based on IEEE 802.11af, to enable devices with better coverage and better energy consumption, addressing the unique spectrum sharing requirements Wi-Fi Docking•Goal: Investigate a certification program to quickly, securely, and wirelessly managing access to a range of peripherals for tablets, laptops, phones, etc.
Wi-Fi Serial Bus•Goal: Investigate certification of a Wi-Fi Serial Bus (WSB) solution for inter-device connectivity. Designed to enable users to replace cables and connect peripherals to PCs or handheld devices with the ease and confidence of their current wired solution.WiGig CERTIFIED•Goal: Enable a new class of multimedia, networking, and computing applications with multi-gigabit rates operating at 60GHz. Deliver interoperability certification based on the IEEE 802.11ad standard, using unlicensed spectrum at 60GHz.
Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
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WiGig Display Extension
•Goal: Investigate technology and certification requirements for display over WiGig, delivering a low-latency media experience without cables. The certification program targets devices such as tablets, smartphones, PCs, monitors, televisions, and projectors.
WiGig SD Extension
•Goal: Investigate a certification program to wirelessly expand memory and bridge media content on resource limited devices with SD technology.
Launching soon: Wi-Fi Aware
•Power-efficient pre-association service discovery
•Optimized for crowded environments
•Makes it easy to find nearby services before making a connection: Device discovers services nearby that match user’s preferences
•Enables a personalized social/local/mobile experience
• Animation illustrates usages
Certification coming July 2015
Wi-Fi Alliance work areas
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Wi-Fi Aware essential capabilities
• Establishes a common heartbeat among Wi-Fi devices – Common wake-up and sleep cadence among Wi-Fi Aware devices
close by – Continuous discovery without undue burden on mobile device battery
• Defines how applications discover similar applications and services on devices in proximity through publish and subscribe messages
• Provides a method for application developers to create unique, short identifiers for applications and services
• Enables follow-up activity after successful discovery has taken place
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Summary
“Wi-Fi is one of the great wireless success stories of the last thirty years.” FCC Commissioner Rosenworcel, April 17 2015
•IEEE 802.11 work is important to Wi-Fi Alliance
•Thanks to IEEE and Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi is only getting stronger
•Wi-Fi Alliance made much information available to the public recently
•We look forward to maintaining good communication between our two organizations
•Next Wi-Fi Alliance meeting is June 9-11 2015 in Sao Paolo, Brazil—we hope to see you there!
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