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 Dear Joseph and all colleagues, 
  
I agree with Josheph in that we do not remove 
requirement statements for frame error rate. 
But I also support that we do not specify a specific 
value for FER. 
  
Best regards, Jin 
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  Subject: RE: stds-80220-requirements: Frame 
  Error Rate Requirement 
  
  
  Joanne et al: 
   
  I agree with this last 
  post (Joanne's) 
  I think Jim's 
  suggested statement is a decent interim approach. 
  To pick up Joseph's 
  remark.  Re last sentence: one can also have the obverse case, too: 
  a design requirement or a target (better term) but still not demand a specific 
  evaluation because (for instance) one cannot agree on a v tricky evaluation or 
  test approach  - I speak in general terms. This often happens 
  in military work e.g. one may not desire EMP testing or other notional 
  evaluation, but one still has a design requirement that is deadly 
  serious.    
  BUT in this context we 
  are talking of the proposal for a specific FER value/set for the widest set of 
  (undefined) scenarios and which is dependent on the AI. . It is not that one 
  could not imagine how to evaluate, but it doesn't seem to make sense to 
  arbitrarily bias it all in one direction needlessly.  There are so many 
  widely different user situations, as mentioned by others.  The FER cannot 
  - just taking the end user's needs into account, regardless of AI, technology 
  used - be separately defined at this stage, it is part of a set of 
  trade-offs related to offered traffic types and 
  needs..  
  I agree with Joanne's 
  last sentence that refers to Heesoo's recommendation. One  might consider 
  re-evaluation of this at a later stage - but I'd take some convincing 
  .. 
  I concur with Mike' s 
  request to remove the sentence that was there (see his last half dozen or 
  so lines) 
  Regards,  
  Dave 
  James 
  OAK Global 
  B.V. 
  
    
    
    Joseph, 
      
    I 
    have to agree with Mike, Samir, Jim and Heesoo.  For FER to be an 
    appropriate requirement, it 
    would have to be visible and meaningful to the end 
    user.  My take from Heesoo's message is 
    that, 
    and I believe this is also the 
    point Mike, Samir and Jim have been trying to make, the impact of 
    a 
    specific FER at the application level (which is 
    what end users see) will vary with the AI design. 
    From my perspective, I don't see how we could 
    establish an FER requirement that is independent 
    of 
    the AI design.  For example, we don't know either the length, structure 
    or payload of the frames 
    for which we'd be setting a FER requirement?  
    Certainly, all of the those are outside of the scope 
    of 
    the Requirements Document.   As Heesoo recommends, I prefer to 
    have the evaluation group 
    consider whether and, if so, how to address 
    optimization of the FER in the context of the specific 
    AI 
    proposals under evaluation. 
      
    Best regards, 
      
    Joanne 
    
      
      Hi Heesoo et. al.  
        
      I disagree with the concept of removing a 
      requirement then conducting an evaluation of an unspecified performance 
      number.  That is, if there is no requirement, there is no 
      evaluation to be done. 
        
      Joseph Cleveland  
      
        
        
        Hi all, 
          
        I agree on Mike, Samir and Jim's point that 
        there are many different types of traffic we're attempting to serve with 
        this technology, and different applications require different FER vs 
        Latency tradeoffs. The proper or optimized FER for each application 
        is closely related to RTT, that is, depends on the maximum number of 
        retransmissions within the delay bound for the application. However, RTT 
        or the maximum number of retransmissions within the delay bound is a 
        specific AI design issue which is certainly outside the scope of the 
        requirements document.  As a result, I also suggest that we should 
        remove the specific FER value in requirements document, and leave the 
        optimization of proper FER to the evaluation process. 
          
        Best Regards, 
          
        Heesoo Lee
  
          
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        Staff  ETRI 
        (Electronics and Telecommunications Research 
        Institute)  Taejon, 
        KOREA  Tel: 
        +82-42-860-5375  E-mail: heelee@etri.re.kr  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
         
          
        
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          Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2003 6:45 
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          Subject: RE: 
          stds-80220-requirements: Frame Error Rate Requirement 
          
  At 10:30 PM 7/30/2003 -0400, Kapoor Samir 
wrote:
  
          Just to add to Mike's, 
            and others before, point about the difficulty in specifying a 
            particular FER threshold. In addition to different 
            applications having different target FER vs latency tradeoffs, 
            another issue is that the extent of uncertainty in channel 
            quality measurements (e.g. depending on the SNR regime, rate of 
            channel variation etc) can significantly impact the transmitter's 
            selection of appropriate transmission (e.g. coding 
            and modulation) parameters and corresponding FER targets under 
            different conditions. Consequently, it is probably best to not 
            mandate a single FER threshold.  Samir, Michael, 
          Joseph, and others...
  Samir makes a good point here about the 
          fact that different applications require different FER vs Latency 
          tradeoffs.  There are many different types of traffic we're 
          attempting to serve with this technology.  We've learned this in 
          the CDMA data world too, and as a result, our radio link protocols are 
          now designed to support negotiating a range of error/data loss 
          characteristics from  that of the raw airlink (for apps that can 
          support frame loss but not much latency) through that roughly 
          equivalent to a wireline (for the purposes of TCP retransmission 
          performance).
  Maybe my original comment (from an e-mail 
          7/16/2003 which wasn't addressed by the group) may help.  PThe 
          comment suggests a requirement to support a range of error vs. latency 
          tradeoffs.  These could be negotiable upon channel setup, if 
          information about the traffic type is available.  Suggest some 
          text such as this:
  The Air Interface 
          (PHY+MAC) shall include mechanisms to allow negotiating a range of 
          latency vs. data loss/error rates subject to application 
          types.
  Best Regards,
  Jim
  
          Samir  
            
  -----Original Message----- From: Michael Youssefmir [mailto:mike@arraycomm.com] Sent: Wednesday, 
            July 30, 2003 8:14 PM To: Joseph Cleveland Cc: 'Dorenbosch 
            Jheroen-FJD007'; stds-80220-requirements@ieee.org; Michael 
            Youssefmir Subject: Re: stds-80220-requirements: Frame Error Rate 
            Requirement
 
 
 
  Hi Joseph,
  I see that this 
            discussion is moving into specific design requirements such as 
            frame length instead of addressing functional 
            requirements.
  1) An FER requirement seems to be irrelevant 
            absent the specifics of the design and would have different 
            performance implications for different designs.  As Jheroen 
            pointed out a specific requirement such as 1% will bias the 
            requirement to shorter frames, and, as your response indicates we 
            rapidly have to go down the path of specifying frame lengths to 
            make the requirement have meaning. I think we are far better off 
            having the requirements document focus on high level functional 
            requirements and not specify specifics such as frame 
            length.
  2) As Jinweon pointed out tuning of FERs has 
            performance implications in trading off throughput and latency. 
            For latency insensitive data, the "FER can be less strict in 
            order to maximize throughput over the air", and for other data, 
            the "FER needs to be tightly controlled below a certain 
            threshold". Again I therefore think it is premature to define a 
            specific FER.
  For these reasons, I continue to believe that 
            we should remove the specific FER value and therefore delete the 
            sentence:
  "The frame error rate shall be less than 1 percent, 
            with 95% confidence, after channel decoding and before any 
            link-level ARQ, measured under conditions specified in Section 
            xx."
  Mike ArrayComm, Inc.
  On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 
            04:58:15PM -0500, Joseph Cleveland wrote: > Hi All -- Yes, we 
            need a frame length.  This is why I asked what MAC 
            layer > "RLP" we intend to use. >   > Joseph 
            Cleveland >  > -----Original Message----- > From: 
            Dorenbosch Jheroen-FJD007 [mailto:J.Dorenbosch@motorola.com]  > 
            Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 3:31 PM > To: 
            stds-80220-requirements@ieee.org > Subject: RE: 
            stds-80220-requirements: Frame Error Rate Requirement > 
             >  > We seem to be converging.  >   > 
            However, will it not be hard to specify a maximum error rate for a 
            frame > unless we have an idea of the length of the frame or 
            of the number of useful > bits in a frame? A generic 
            requirement could bias towards short frames. >   > 
             > Jheroen Dorenbosch  >  > -----Original 
            Message----- > From: Joseph Cleveland [mailto:JClevela@sta.samsung.com]  > Sent: 
            Tuesday, July 29, 2003 1:40 PM > To: 
            stds-80220-requirements@ieee.org > Subject: 
            stds-80220-requirements: FW: Frame Error Rate Requirement, 
            4.1.10 >  >  >  > Hi All:  It seems 
            that some are referring to a previous re-write of 4.1.10, > 
            Frame Error Rate.  Several of the items noted were already 
            addressed in the > latest version sent on 7/24, which is 
            attached below.  Please refer to the > content in v0.2.1 
            so there is not wasted discussion.  >  > Regards 
             >  > Joseph Cleveland  >  >  
            -----Original Message-----  > From:   Joseph 
            Cleveland   > Sent:   Thursday, July 24, 2003 
            12:44 PM  > To:     
            stds-80220-requirements@ieee.org  > 
            Subject:        Frame Error Rate 
            Requirement, 4.1.10  >  > Hi All,  >  > Here 
            is a revision to the wording on section 4.1.10 based on feedback 
            from > many of you.  Thanks for the comments. 
             >   <<frame_error_v0.2.1.rtf>>  > 
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