Deterministic Networking is getting traction in multiple industries 
	(manufacturing, vehicle automation, professional A/V, gaming) with recent
	developments in wired technologies (IEEE 802.1 TSN, IETF DetNet), enabling 
	the promises of the IT/OT convergence. 
	
	Deterministic Networking in the IP world is an attempt to eliminate packet 
	loss for a committed bandwidth while ensuring a worst case end-to-end 
	latency, regardless of the network conditions and across technologies. 
	
	IP networks become more deterministic when the effects of statistical
	multiplexing (jitter and collision loss) are eliminated. This requires a 
	tight control of the physical resources to maintain the amount of traffic
	within the physical capabilities of the underlying technology, e.g., by the 
	use of time-shared resources (bandwidth and buffers) per circuit, and/or by
	shaping and/or scheduling the packets at every hop.
 
	Wireless operates on a shared medium, and transmissions cannot be fully
	deterministic due to uncontrolled interferences, including self-induced
	multipath fading. Scheduling transmissions enables to alleviate those 
	effects	by leveraging diversity in the spatial, time and frequency domains, 
	and provide a more Predictable and Available Wireless (PAW) service.
	
	The wireless and wired media are fundamentally different at the physical 
	level, and while the generic Problem Statement for DetNet applies to the 
	wired as well as the wireless medium, the methods to achieve PAW necessarily
	differ from those used to support Time-Sensitive Networking over wires.  
	
	The development of PAW technologies was so far lagging behind that of wires
	both at the IEEE and the IETF. But recent efforts at the IEEE and 3GPP 
	indicate that wireless is finally catching up at the lower layer and that 
	time has come for the IETF to extend DetNet to wireless and implement the 
	scheduled aspect of the 6TiSCH Architecture.
	
	PAW will centralize efforts that inherit from DetNet and 6TiSCH but focus 
	on scheduled wireless. The Working Group will leverage cross-participation
	with the associated set of stakeholders to ensure that the work taking place
	corresponds to real demands and that the proposed solutions are indeed 
	applicable. It will focus on enabling PAW connectivity over the following
	selection of deterministic wireless technologies: IEEE Std. 802.15.4 
	timeslotted channel hopping (TSCH), 3GPP 5G ultra-reliable low latency 
	communications (URLLC), IEEE 802.11 extreme high throughput (EHT) and the 
	L-band Digital Aeronautical Communications System (LDACS).

    The group will:

        1) Produce Informational work describing deterministic wireless
           use cases, in continuation to the DetNet use cases document
		
         2) Produce Informational work describing the technologies that the
            group will cover (5G, TSCH, RTA and LDACS) 

        3) Produce a Standards Track document to define the generic data models
           to install a PAW flow along a Track providing Packet Replication, 
           Elimination and Ordering Functions with Spatial, Frequency and Time
           diversity in a Scheduled FD/TDMA wireless Network.

        4) Produce a Standards Track document to enable some operations, 
           administration and maintenance (OAM) inside a PAW network, providing
           packet loss evaluation and automated adaptation to enable a trade off
           between resilience and energy spending.