Joe Decuir
Phone: +1 425 562 6598
Email: jdecuir@ieee.org

Area: Washington State, Oregon, California, British Columbia & New York (Rochester, near MCCI).

Joe Decuir has worked in the development of public engineering standards since 1987, including TIA, ITU, ETSI, IEEE 802, USB-IF, Bluetooth SIG and WiMedia Alliance.  His employer MCCI is the leading supplier of wired USB connectivity software for mobile phones.   He now works in the standards groups that represent the future of that business using UltraWideband: Wireless USB, WiNet and Bluetooth 3.0.

Joe has EECS degrees from UC Berkeley.  His career includes Atari, Amiga, Everex and Microsoft.  He earned a dozen patents so far.  He served 9 years as the Seattle Chapter chair of the IEEE Communications Society.  He currently serves as the vice chair of the IEEE Seattle Section.

UltraWideband: IEEE 802.15 TG3a, WiMedia Alliance and Ecma-368
IEEE P802 formed Task Group 3a in the 802.15 Personal Area Networking group in 2002.  Its mission was to standardize a higher rate personal area network, building on IEEE 802.15.3.  In 2006 this process self-terminated.  However, it also gave birth to a thriving industry consortium, the WiMedia Alliance, and a published standard Ecma-368.  (At the time of the presentation, it will be an ISO standard.)

There are three stories to tell:

• The political process: the industry, academic and regulatory players; compare to other SDOs
• The technologies: direct sequence & multi-band OFDM, how they work, choice criteria
• The applications: why UWB?, mapping existing connectivity methods to UltraWideband

Given the size of the first topic, it could be split into multiple presentations.

I could also cover IEEE 802.15.4a UWB in comparison to TG3a UWB.  This effort succeeded.  The applications were different, which drove a different technology choice.   This standard will probably be approved and published by the time of the presentation.