ARIB Standards Development for Wireless Access systems

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ARIB Standards Development for Wireless Access
systems
Submission DateJuly 1, 2008
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Highlight of Current Activities (1)

• 4 working groups (including 3 technical working
  groups) have been constituted in ARIB-MMAC
  (Multimedia Mobile Access Communications System)
  Forum to make technical investigation, study on
  system specifications, liaison with other
  standardization bodies, promotion of
  demonstrative experiments and popularization
  activities.
• Promotion-WG
• Planning and managing promotion and
  popularization activities of the Forum
• MMAC802.11-WG
• Modification of ARIB STD-T71, incorporating
  introduction of high-speed wireless LAN in the
  5GHz band
• Liaison with IEEE802.11 for updating ARIB
  STD-T71(TGn etc.)
• Maintaining the standard of ARIB STD-T71 and
  drafting its revisions
• UWB-WG
• Investigation of the discussion of interference
  mitigation function for UWB (Ultra Wide Band)
  system in Europe and Japan. Planning and
  promotion of UWB (Ultra Wide Band) demonstrative
  experiments.
• Provision of information regarding the
  investigation of interference mitigation function
  in Japan to ECC and ETSI.
• Exchange of information regarding the
  interference mitigation function among Asian
  countries.
• Maintaining the standard of ARIB STD-T91 and
  drafting its revisions.
• Establishment of residential backbone network
  sub-working group.
• mmWPAN-WG
• Study on standardization of millimeter-wave
  wireless PAN (Personal Area Network)
• Making a draft standard of millimeter- wave
  wireless PAN in Japan

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Highlight of Current Activities (2)

• MMAC802.11-WG activities
• Developing standards to define specifications for
  broadband mobile access communication system
  using CSMA
• Currently maintaining the ARIB STDs T66 and T71
• T66 for 2.4GHz systems (802.11b and g)
• T71 for 4.9, 5.2, 5.3 and 5.6GHz systems
  (802.11j, 11a and 11n)
• Recently completed work
• Following standards were revised in last year
  reflecting Japanese Radio Regulation change
• ARIB STD T71 version 4.0 (May. 2007).
• Align with the 5.6GHz allocation for wireless LAN
  systems, technical requirements for the system
  using 5.6GHz band(5.47-5.725GHz) were added
• Mitigation of limitation for 5.2 and 5.3GHz
  bands inside traveling trains were assumed as
  indoor environment and use of 5.2 and 5.3GHz were
  permitted
• ARIB STD T71 version 5.0 (Dec. 2007).
• Technical requirements for channel-bonded 40MHz
  operation were added
• Liaison with IEEE 802.11 for updating ARIB STD
  T71
• Carefully watching the activities and directions
  of IEEE 802.11 task groups e.g.
  TGn(high-throughput) and TGs(mesh networking)

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Strategic Direction

• ARIB standards development on Wireless LAN
  systems based on IEEE802.11 standards and
  Japanese Radio Regulations
• Contents of published IEEE802.11 standards should
  be reflected into ARIB STD T71
• Reflection of draft phase standards (e.g.
  IEEE802.11n D.2.0) into ARIB STD T71 will be
  discussed and decided in MMAC802.11-WG
• Changes of Japanese Radio Regulations will be
  reflected into ARIB STD as soon as possible
• Modification of ARIB standards consider the
  certification programs of following industrial
  organizations
• Wi-Fi Alliance
• Certification program that guarantees
  interoperability between wireless LAN access
  points and wireless terminals
• TELEC (Telecom Engineering Center)
• Certification that specified radio equipment
  conforms to the technical regulations based on
  the Radio Regulation of Japan

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Challenges

• Due to the differences of standardization
  process, some gaps exist among their documents or
  (draft) standards
• Current version of ARIB STD-T71 is described
  based on Japanese Radio Regulation and it refers
  IEEE802.11n draft 2.0 standard
• IEEE802.11 TGn is revising the draft almost once
  two month and the latest version is 4.0
• Wi-Fi Alliance has already started the IOT (Inter
  operability test) program based on IEEE802.11n
  draft 2.0 standard
• Differences and discrepancies among documents and
  standards mentioned above should be absorbed and
  new version of ARIB STD-T71 to be published
• No documents or standards exist regarding ad-hoc
  networking in MMAC802.11-WG
• To be discussed

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Next Steps/Actions

• MMAC802.11WG to maintain ARIB STD-T71 and revise
  it align with activities of other standard bodies
  and industrial organization such as IEEE802.11,
  Wi-Fi Alliance and TELEC
• In MMAC, Wide Area Ubiquitous Network-WG
  (tentative name) will be newly constituted in
  2008
• Study on the wide area ubiquitous network system
  using many simple radio data terminals
  distributed over a wide area which perform data
  communications and information processing
• Development techniques for the wide area
  ubiquitous network

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Proposed Resolution optional

• N/A

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Supplemental Slides
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What is MMAC?

• Objective
• The objective of the Forum is to realize
  MMAC(Multimedia Mobile Access Communication
  Systems) as soon as possible through
  investigations of system specifications,
  demonstrative experiment, information exchange
  and popularization activities and thereby
  contribute to the efficient use of radio
  frequency spectrum.
• Activities
• 1. Investigation
• 2. Study on system specifications
• 3. Demonstrative experiment
• 4. Information exchange and popularization
  activities
• 5. Other business
• Establishment
• December 4, 1996

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Organization
Promotion-WG
General Assembly Officers-Members
MMAC802.11-WG
Executive Committee
UWB-WG
Steering Committee
mmWWPAN-WG
Wide Area Ubiquitous Network-WG (Tentative name)
Newly-constituted in 2008
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Target spec. of MMAC
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MMAC Forum coverage area
Coverage area
MMAC area
The 3rd generation (3G W-CDMA, CDMA2000 1X,
etc)
The 3.5th generation (3.5G HSPA, EV-DO)

The 3.9th generation (3.9G LTE, UMB)
MMAC area
Cellular System
Next generation PHS
The 4th generation IMT-Advance
PHS
MBWA(IEEE802.20)
Beyond 4th generation
MAN
FWA(IEEE802.16a 16e)
HiSWANa
HiSWANb
Wireless1394
LAN
802.11b
IEEE802.11
802.11a/g
802.11n
802.11VHT
UWB
Bluetooth(IEEE802.15.1)
PAN
Millimeter wave (IEEE802.15.3c)
ZigBee(IEEE802.15.4)
100k
1M
10M
100M
1G
10G
Information rate
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Target Layer
WG
Layer
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Schedule
Study on TGn
Study on WLAN, drafting a revision of T71, etc.
Study on interference mitigation function for UWB
standardization
Exchange of information regarding the
interference mitigation function among
standard-setting organizations.
Drafting a revision of T91
Liaison with IEEE802.15.3c
Drafting a standard of mm WPAN in Japan
Study on Wide Area Ubiquitous Network
Development technique for Wide Area Ubiquitous
Network
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MMAC Concept
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Global Standardization Relationship
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MMAC Members
Agilent Technologies Japan, Ltd.Atheros
Communications, Inc.BUFFALO INC.CANON
INC.CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.Cisco Systems
K.K.Daido Steel Co., Ltd.DATATrak Co.,
Ltd.DENSO CORPORATIONDX ANTENNA CO.,
LTD.Euphonic Technologies, Inc.FOCUS
ENHANCEMENTS JAPAN K.K.France Telecom Japan Co.,
Ltd.Fuji Electric Advanced Technology Co.,
Ltd.FUJITSU GENERAL LIMITEDFUJITSU
LIMITEDFUJITSU TEN LIMITEDFuji Television
Network, Inc.Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Futaba
CorporationHitachi, Ltd.Hitachi Cable,
Ltd.Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.IBM Japan,
Ltd.Icom Inc.Infineon Technologies Japan
K.K.Intel CorporationInternix
IncorporatedITOCHU Techno-Solutions
CorporationIwatsu Electric Co., Ltd.Japan Radio
Co., Ltd.
Kandenko Co., Ltd.The Kansai Electric Power Co.,
Inc.KDDI CORPORATIONKyocera CorporationMatsushi
ta Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.Matsushita
Electric Works, Ltd.Mitsubishi Electric
CorporationMitsubishi Electric TOKKI Systems
CorporationMurata Manufacturing Co.,
Ltd.Motorola Japan Ltd.Nassua Solutions
CorporationNational Mobile Radio Centers
CouncilNEC CorporationNEC Electronics
CorporationNEC Infrontia CorporationNEC Micro
Systems, Ltd.New Japan Radio Co., Ltd.NIHON
DEMPA KOGYO CO., LTD.NIHON DENGYO KOSAKU CO.,
LTD.NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
CORPORATIONNokia Siemens Networks Japan
Corp.NTT DoCoMo, Inc.NTT Electronics
CorporationOki Electric Industry Co.,
Ltd.Panasonic Mobile Communications Co.,
Ltd.Pioneer CorporationQUALCOMM
IncorporatedRicoh Co., Ltd.ROOT INC.Samsung
Yokohama Research Institute Co., Ltd.SANSEI
ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.SAXA, Inc.Sharp
CorporationSOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.Sony
CorporationSOSHIN ELECTRIC CO., LTD.Sumitomo
Electric Industries, Ltd.TAITO CORPORATIONTaiyo
Yuden Co., Ltd.TDK CorporationTelecom
Engineering CenterTexas Instruments Japan
Ltd.Toho Technology CorporationThe Tokyo
Electric Power Company, IncorporatedTOMEN
ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONToshiba
CorporationTOSHIBA TEC CORPORATIONTOYOTA MOTOR
CORPORATIONUM-Services, Ltd.Victor Company of
Japan, LimitedWisair Ltd.YAGI ANTENNA
INC.Yokogawa Electric Corporation
as of June 15, 2007. 92 members
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Public WiFi Services in Japan

• NTT Group
• NTT East/NTT West (Regional carrier), NTT
  Communications (Long distance carrier) and NTT
  DoCoMo (Mobile operator) are providing public
  WiFi services
• NTT Broadband Platform, Inc. deploys and operates
  WiFi access points and wholesales them for NTT
  East, NTT West, NTT Communications and for NTT
  DoCoMo
• About 7,000 access points (at stations, airports,
  hotels, restaurants etc.) have been deployed
• Softbank BB
• Providing BB mobile point service using
  IEEE802.11b
• Wireless service is an optional service for
  residential broadband Yahoo BB users
• Livedoor Wireless
• Providing public wireless LAN service using
  IEEE802.11b and g
• Set up access points on utility poles
• Covers whole area of inside Yamanote line
  central Tokyo

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Public WiFi Service Areas

• Airport
• Major airports
• Public WLAN services available
• Free wireless access as Airport lounge service
  for business class/first class customers
  (Tokyo/Narita, Osaka etc.)
• Railway station
• Major private railway stations in Tokyo
  metropolitan areas
• All stations of Keikyu railway, Tokyo metro
  subways and Tokyo municipal subways (Tokyo and
  Kanagawa area)
• Major hotels, cafes and restaurants
• On the train
• WiFi train service available on Tsukuba Express
• Public wireless LAN services of NTT East and NTT
  DoCoMo are available all the way from Akihabara
  to Tsukuba
• WiFi service on bullet train Shinkansen from
  Tokyo to Osaka will be available next year