July 2002 doc.: IEEE 802.

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(5G) IAG

(5GHz) Industry Advisory Group

Submission Slide 1 Thomas Kuehnel, Microsoft

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IAG
• Scope
– Independent industry consortium
– Promote Wireless technologies
• Not limited to specific spectrum
• Global Spectrum harmonization
• Global Harmonization of WLANs
– Standard independent(802.11/MMAC/ETSI BRAN)
– Global Roaming

Submission Slide 2 Thomas Kuehnel, Microsoft

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5G IAG (cont.)
• Founding members
– Compaq, Intel, Microsoft
• Status
• 8 Meetings since June 2000
• ~ 350 people on mailing list
• Reference
– Web site:
www.microsoft.com/hwdev/tech/network/wireless/5GHz.
asp
Submission Slide 3 Thomas Kuehnel, Microsoft
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IAG Areas
• Enterprise Networking
– Roaming (Authentication/Guest access)
– Management procedures
• Public Access
– Global Roaming
– WWAN / WLAN Interoperability
• Home Networking
– Interoperability
– Application scenarios requiring high QoS
– Higher layer protocols
– Heterogeneous networks
– Configuration

Submission Slide 4 Thomas Kuehnel, Microsoft

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Next Meeting

– Week BRAN#30
• starting1st October (tentatively)

Submission Slide 5 Thomas Kuehnel, Microsoft