Principles of IEEE 802.15.3c: Multi-Gigabit Millimeter-Wave Wireless PAN

Interests in millimeter-wave resulted in the formation of Task Group 3c (TG3c) within IEEE 802.15 in 2005. It is currently developing a 60 GHz based alternative physical layer supporting PHY data rates of multi-giga bits per second (multi- Gbps) for the existing 802.15.3 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) standard. In comparison to the baseline 802.15.3 standard, the unique features of 802.15.3c are: 1) Directional transmissions; 2) Aggregation and Block Ack for supporting multi-Gbps MAC-SAP rate (up to 5.7 Gbps); 3) Unequal Error Protections for enabling uncompressed video streaming. In this paper, we present principles of the key features of the current draft D08 [1]. In addition, we conduct a detailed simulation study and the results indicate that the 802.15.3c can indeed support emerging applications such as gigabit file transfers and high definition uncompressed video streaming in a Wireless PAN.