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January, 2018 doc.: IEEE 802.11- 17/1604r6 1 IEEE P802.11 2 Wireless LANs

A PAR Proposal for Light Communications

Date: 2017-11-09

Author(s): Name Affiliation Address Phone Email Nikola pureLiFi Ltd. [email protected] Serafimovski

John Li Huawei [email protected]

Jiamin Chen Huawei [email protected]

Volker Jungnickel Fraunhofer HHI [email protected]

Mark Hamilton Ruckus/Brocade [email protected]

Gaurav Patwardhan HPE [email protected]

Mark Rison Samsung [email protected]

Submission page 4 Nikola Serafimovski, pureLiFi, et. tal. 1 1 PAR 2 3 P802.11

4 Submitter Email: 5 Type of Project: Amendment to IEEE Standard 802.11 6 PAR Request Date: 7 PAR Approval Date: 8 PAR Expiration Date: 9 Status: Unapproved PAR, PAR for an amendment to an existing IEEE Standard

10 1.1 Project Number: P802.11bbTBD 11 1.2 Type of Document: Standard 12 1.3 Life Cycle: Full Use

13 2.1 Title: Standard for Information technology--Telecommunications and information exchange 14 between systems Local and metropolitan area networks--Specific requirements Part 11: Wireless LAN 15 Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical Layer (PHY) Specifications-- Amendment: Light 16 Communications

17 3.1 Working Group: Wireless LAN Working Group (C/LM/WG802.11) 18 Contact Information for Working Group Chair Name: Adrian Stephens 19 Email Address: [email protected] 20 Phone: +44 (1793) 404825

21 Contact Information for Working Group Vice-Chair 22 Name: Jon Rosdahl 23 Email Address: [email protected] 24 Phone: +1-801-492-4023

25 3.2 Sponsoring Society and Committee: IEEE Computer Society/LAN/MAN Standards Committee 26 (C/LM) 27 Contact Information for Sponsor Chair

28 Name: Paul Nikolich 29 Email Address: [email protected] 30 Phone: +1-857.205.0050

31 Contact Information for Standards Representative

32 Name: James Gilb 33 Email Address: [email protected] 34 Phone: +1-858-229-4822

35 4.1 Type of Ballot: Individual 36 4.2 Expected Date of submission of draft to the IEEE-SA for Initial Sponsor Ballot: 37 November 2020 38 4.3 Projected Completion Date for Submittal to RevCom: 39 July 2021 January, 2018 doc.: IEEE 802.11- 17/1604r6 1 5.1 Approximate number of people expected to be actively involved in the development of this 2 project: 50.

3 5.2.a. Scope of the complete standard: 4 The scope of this standard is to define one medium access control (MAC) and several physical layer 5 (PHY) specifications for wireless connectivity for fixed, portable, and moving stations (STAs) within a 6 local area.

7 5.2.b. Scope of the project: 8 This amendment defines a new physical (PHY) layer specification and modifications to the IEEE 802.11 9 medium access control (MAC) clausesthat enable operation of light communications (LC). 10 11 This amendment defines a PHY that provides: 12 • Uplink and downlink operations in 380 nm to 5,000 nm band, 13 • All modes of operation achieve minimum throughput of 10 Mb/s and at least one mode of 14 operation that achieves minimum throughput of 5 Gb/s, as measured at the MAC data service 15 access point (SAP), 16 • Interoperability among solid state light sources with different modulation bandwidths. 17 18 This amendment defines changes to the IEEE 802.11 MAC that are limited to the following: 19 • on hHybrid coordination function (HCF) channel access, 20 • Overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection and mitigation, 21 • Existing power management modes of operation (excluding architectural new modeschanges), 22 and 23 rules for overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection and mitigation, and modifications to other 24 clauses necessary to support these changes. as required to support the new PHY layer specification that 25 enables operation of light communications (LC). 26 27 The ammendment supports: 28 fast session transfer between LC and radio, 29 • corresponding 802.1 protocols, 30 • fast BSS transition. 31 32 The new PHY specified in this amendment: 33 • Enable operations in 170 nm to 10,000 nm band 34 • Enables of at least one mode of operation that achieves minimum throughput of 10 Mbps, as 35 measured at the MAC data service access point (SAP) 36 • Enables of at least one mode of operation that achieves maximum throughput of 5 Gbps, as 37 measured at the MAC data service access point (SAP) 38 39 5.3 Is the completion of this standard dependent upon the completion of another standard: No.

40 5.4 Purpose: 41 This amendment does not change the “Purpose” clause of IEEE 802.11The purpose of this standard is to 42 provide wireless connectivity for fixed, portable, and moving stations within a local area. This standard 43 also offers regulatory bodies a means of standardizing access to light spectrum for the purpose of local 44 area communication.

Submission page 4 Nikola Serafimovski, pureLiFi, et. tal. 1 1 5.5 Need for the Project: A significant variety of Light Communications (LC) vendors currently build 2 various, non-standardized, products for many use-cases that could have significant market growth spanning from 3 kb/s IoT devices which work even with the diffused light sources up to several Gbit/s. 4 The LC market size is forecast to be worth $75 billion by 2022 according to Markets and Markets.The wider 5 context for the economic considerations for LC is presented in doc. 11-17/0803r1 6 (https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-0803-01-00lc-economic-considerations-for-lc.ppt). 7 The availability of chipsets in the latest relevant semiconductor technologies (process size and light efficacy for 8 LEDs), is seen as a key to reduce power consumption, form factor and costs for LC devices. Standardization is 9 seen by many in the industry as a key facilitator of requirement to address the mass market for LC. Vendors 10 include chip makers to deliver PHY & MAC sub-systems, system integrators and lighting companies, telecom 11 operators, ISPs, emerging IoT companies, large industrial manufacturers, aviation and transportation industries, 12 etc. 13 14 5.6 Stakeholders for the Standard: Stakeholders include chip makers to deliver PHY & MAC sub- 15 systems, system integrators and lighting companies, telecom operators, Internet Service Providers 16 (ISPs), emerging IoT companies, large industrial manufacturers, aviation and transportation industries. 17 Manufacturers and users of semiconductors, personal computers, enterprise networking devices, 18 consumer electronic devices, home networking equipment, producers of industrial sensors, mobile 19 devices, lighting manufacturers and cellular operators. 20 21 Intellectual Property 22 6.1.a. Is the Sponsor aware of any copyright permissions needed for this project?: No 23 6.1.b. Is the Sponsor aware of possible registration activity related to this project?: NoYes 24 25 7.1 Are there other standards or projects with a similar scope?: 26 Yes, there are two three projects as follows. 27 Sponsor Organization: IEEE 802 28 Project Number: IEEE 802.15.7m 29 Project Date: 2014-12 30 Project Title: Part 15.7 Revision: Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications 31 32 Sponsor Organization: IEEE 802 33 Project Number: IEEE 802.15.13 34 Project Date: 2017-03 (projected) 35 Project Title: Part 15.13: Standard for Multi-Gigabit per Second Optical Wireless Communications 36 (OWC) with Ranges up to 200 meters 37 38 Sponsor Organization: ITU-T SG15 39 Project Number: ITU-T G.vlc 40 Project Date: 2015-06 (projected) 41 Project Title: High speed indoor visible light communication transceiver - System architecture, physical 42 layer and data link layer specification 43 44 7.2 Joint Development 45 Is it the intent to develop this document jointly with another organization?: No 46 47 8.1 Additional Explanatory Notes (Item Number and Explanation): 48

50 January, 2018 doc.: IEEE 802.11- 17/1604r6 1 5.2.b 2 3 LC systems are expected to adhere to regulation and standards such as ITU G.664 – Optical Safety 4 Procedures and Requitements for Optical Transmission Systems. In addition, LC systems are expected 5 to not create any additional electromagnetic interference. 6 7 5.2.b The project will address the security of the transition between the new LC PHY and the existing 8 802.11 PHYs as well as the security implications in supporting Fast Session Transfer. 9 10 11

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