Eric

Thank you. I agree with your suggested updates. It is consistent with my 
previous understanding regarding requirements for the interface.

Regards

John Malyar

From: Eric Chu [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 11:43 AM
To: Teco Boot <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [paws] use cases and requirements document


Hi everyone,

Gathering all the shared points from everyone... I believe below is the 
complete list so far:


  *   What's the best consistent representation of the words "channel numbers" 
for non-TV spectrum
  *   Should we update the entire doc on the topic of “channel” or “channel 
numbers”
  *   What’s the best way to reduce vagueness in whether/how to include 
"channel numbers"
  *   Is the reference to variable power required
  *   What does channel availability schedule mean

Brian's suggestion of replacing every instance of "channel" is technically 
correctly. However, it is important for us to focus moving forward.  I would 
suggest we only work on the normative part of the spec.  The section Gabor is 
proposing for us to modify...

On what's the best generic label for the words "channel numbers", channel 
identifier might be the most accurate and neutral "label".  Thoughts?

On the question whether variable power is required, based on FCC 
adjacent-channel rules, the database may limit the Mode II devices to 100mW for 
some channels and 40mW for others. Therefore, the data model needs to support 
specification of maximum power levels.

Lastly, with regards to "schedule", the intent is to have a way of informing 
devices when to operate for each frequency range. As long as the data model 
supports, for example, a list of time ranges, it does not prevent an 
implementation from providing a list with 1 entry which corresponds to the 
"shortest available".  The word "schedule" should be sufficient to capture this 
intent?

We would like to propose the following text to address these points:

"The Data Model MUST support specifying available spectrum. The Data Model MUST 
support specification of this information by start and stop frequencies and MAY 
also support specification of this information by channel identifiers. The Data 
Model MUST support a spectrum-availability schedule and maximum power levels 
for each frequency range."


Thoughts?
Eric



On 8/10/12 5:48 AM, Teco Boot wrote:
What about this:

“The Data Model MUST support specifying a list of available channels. The Data 
Model MUST support specification of this information by start and stop 
frequencies, or equivalents such as center frequencies with channel width or 
channel numbers with channel nummer allocation scheme . The Data Model MUST 
support a channel availability schedule and maximum power level for each 
channel in the list.”

More thoughts on channel numbers: we likely run into problems in bands without 
a channel numbering scheme, or for example sub channels in TV bands.

Teco


Op 10 aug. 2012, om 13:57 heeft Rosen, Brian het volgende geschreven:

<as individual>
While I don't care if it's center and width or upper/lower, I do think we will 
define the format in the protocol for interoperability reasons, but don't need 
to do that in requirements.  It wouldn't hurt to decide now and use consistent 
terms, but we don't need to.

I think "band" won't work, as it usually implies a much wider piece of spectrum 
that has a common purpose.  The TV Band is all the channels.


On Aug 10, 2012, at 2:37 AM, Teco Boot 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

(somewhat late response)

A center frequency and channel width is functional equivalent to start/stop 
frequencies. So is channel number, with ref to channel number assignment 
scheme. For a requirements document, we just need to specify what is needed. 
How it is encoded (Hz, wave length, channel ID) is solution space.

Seen our goal to make PAWS somewhat universal (not limited to US TVWS), I do 
not prefer using channel numbers.

Teco


Op 9 aug. 2012, om 21:55 heeft 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> het volgende geschreven:

Folks,

During the last F2F meeting, there was an agreement to make a slight update to 
requirement D.7 in 
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-paws-problem-stmt-usecases-rqmts-06.txt, to 
make channel numbers optional to be supported. Ie, change the current D.7
“The Data Model MUST support specifying a list of available channels. The Data 
Model MUST support specification of this information by channel numbers and by 
start and stop frequencies. The Data Model MUST support a channel availability 
schedule and maximum power level for each channel in the list.”
to
“The Data Model MUST support specifying a list of available channels. The Data 
Model MUST support specification of this information by start and stop 
frequencies and MAY include channel numbers. The Data Model MUST support a 
channel availability schedule and maximum power level for each channel in the 
list.”

I’d like to confirm this change on the list. If anyone has any objections, let 
me know. Otherwise I’ll plan to send the document to the iesg after this change 
is implemented.

-          Gabor
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