802.11s Proposal to Merge Military Usage Case with Public Safety Usage Case

1. 802.11sProposal to Merge Military Usage Case with Public Safety Usage Case Dr. D. J. Shyy, MITRE Jim Hauser, NRL Nov. 16, 2004 D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

2. Introduction • Two contributions were submitted in Sep. 2004 meeting to address the importance of considering military usage case in the IEEE 802.11s Usage Models • “Military Usage Case”, J. Hauser (NRL), D. J. Shyy (MITRE), Max Green (MCTSSA), 11-04/1006r0 • “Usage Cases and Functional Requirements for Mesh Networking: A Military Perspective”, William Kasch, Jack Burbank (John Hopkins/APL), 11-04/1016r0 • These two contributions highlight • Mesh networking capability is something that the military needs today • Military has a strong buying power if the 11s products meet their requirements • Military would like to leverage on commercial products with some military enhancements D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

3. Way Forward • Option 1: Introduce a new usage case in the 802.11s Usage Model document • May create too many usages cases in the document • Option 2: Merge with an existing usage case in the 802.11s Usage Model document • Can we find an existing usage case which has similar attributes as the military usage case? D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

4. How About Merging with Public Safety Usage Case? • The public safety usage case shares many common requirements with the military usage case. • As a result, we propose to merge the military usage case with public safety usage case. • The proposed text changes are attached in the next few slides. D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

5. Proposed Text Changes D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

6. Clean Text D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

7. Proposed Text Changes for the Table D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

8. Proposed Text Changes for the Table (Cont’d) D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser

9. Conclusion • If there is no objection from the group, we will pass the proposed text changes to the editor of the 802.11s Usage Model document. D. J. Shyy and J. Hauser