IEEE P1901 Draft Standard
for Broadband over Power Line Networks: Medium Access Control
and Physical Layer Specifications
Report on the meeting held
in San Diego, CA, USA, on 11 December 2007
HomePlug Powerline Alliance-Panasonic presented the latest
updates of the surviving in-home and access proposals. Significant
progress was achieved but the working group felt the specifications
were not mature enough to conduct a 75% confirmation working
group vote (see down selection
process).
UPA presented a proposal to merge the two surviving coexistence
proposals. The elimination vote was postponed until the
next meeting, in anticipation of a voluntary merger by that
time. Two proposals remain as candidates.
The next updates of the proposals are expected by 11 February
2008.
A subgroup was formed to develop the first draft of the
process for moving from the baseline draft standard to the
IEEE Standards Sponsor ballot (post-down selection process).
The draft will be discussed at the next meeting.
The next
meetings are scheduled for the week of 3-7 March 2008
in Fukuoka, Japan, and the week of 22-25 April 2008 in Madrid,
Spain.
June 2005 - PAR approved
November 2005 - Adoption of the general
work flow - Formation of a sub-group to develop unified
requirements
January 2006 - Approval of the use cases - Decision to split
the requirements into three clusters: In-Home, Access and
Coexistence/Interoperability
March 2006 - Approval of the down
selection process to achieve the baseline of the standard
- Approval of the description of topologies.
September 2006 - Approval of the channel and noise models.
February 2007 - Approval of 400 requirements split into
three clusters: access, in-home and coexistence - Calls
for technical proposals
June 2007 - 12 proposals received; 4 proposals per cluster
of requirements
July 2007 - 11 proposals passed the low hurdle vote; 4 in-home
proposals, 4 access proposals and 3 coexistence proposals
September 2007 - Only two proposals per cluster remain for
consideration after voluntary mergers.
October 2007 - One in-home proposal and one access proposal
remain as candidates for confirmation after the first round
of elimination voting.
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