1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER
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Title: Liaison Report for
Date Submitted: September 18, 2013
Contributed to IEEE on September18, 2013
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  Clint Chaplin, Liaison (Samsung)
Abstract: This document is the liaison report on

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3. 802.11 Groups 802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz 802.11af – TVWS
Successor to n at frequencies less than 6GHz
802.11af – TVWS
TV White Space
802.11ah – Sub-1GHz
Sub-1GHz Operation
802.11ai – Fast Link Setup
Speed up initial link setup
802.11aj – CMMW
Chinese Millimeter Wave
802.11ak – General Link
Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks
802.11aq – Pre-Association Discovery
Pre-Association Discovery
802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments)
Working towards

4. IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0483r0
September 2013
IEEE Standards Pipeline
MAC
GLK
802.11AK
PAD
802.11AQ
802.11aa
Video Transport
802.11ai
FILS
802.11ae
QoS Mgt Frames
WNG
HEW ah
802.11af
TVWS
802.11aj
802.11ac
VHT 5GHz
802.11ad
VHT 60 GHz
PHY
Discussion Topics
Study
groups
Published
Amendment
Published
Standard
TG without
Approved draft WG
Letter Ballot
Sponsor
Ballot
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Slide 4
Page 4
Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

5. 802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz
First Recirculation Sponsor Ballot on draft 6.0 closed August 8, Results 167/6/ %
Received 45 comments
Working on addressing the comments
Osama Aboul-Magd

6. TGaf TV White Space
Fourth Recirculation WG Ballot LB197 on draft 5.0 closed August 1, Results 228/3/ %
Received 0 comments
Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 5.0 closed September 11, Results 143/5/ %
Received 143 comments
All comments have been addressed
Recirculation starts soon
Rich Kennedy 6

7. TGah Less than 1GHz
Working on resolving the comments from the WG 20 day call for comments that ended before July
Call for Comments on Draft 0.1 received 988 comments
Still addressing comments
Many comments are being withdrawn, in order to speed the process to first letter ballot after this meeting
Dave Halasz 7

8. 802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication
First Initial WG Ballot LB198 on draft 1.0 closed September 12, Results 147/51/ % Failed
Received 1389 comments
Working to resolve comments
Hiroshi Mano 8

9. 802.11 TGaj China MM-Wave List of Proposals has been responded
1 Completed Proposal and 12 New Technique Proposals
3 New Technique Proposals being presented in Sept session
1 Complete proposal and 8 New Technique Proposals to be presented in November session
1 New Technique Proposal to be presented in January 2014 session
Two new technique proposals have been presented and one new technique proposal has been withdrawn
Consideration of PHY design for 1.08GHz channel – 11-13/1109r0
Beam codebook design scheme /1110r0
Two other contributions
PCP selection considering supported channels capability – 11-13/1183r0
Back-haul usage model /177r4
Xiaoming PENG 9

10. 802.11 TGak General Link Accomplishments
Received, discuss, and in some cases edited:
13/0995r1, “802.1AS Synchronization Services for ak Links”, Philippe Klein (Broadcom), Dave Goodall (Broadcom), Kevin Stanton (Intel)
13/0952r2 / 13/1055r0 / 13/1055r1 / 13/1210r0, “Tag Stacking In LLC Media”, Norman Finn (Cisco), (Donald Eastlake (Huawei))
13/1171r0, “Suggested text for P802.1AC-REV Clause 12”, Norm Finn (Cisco)
11-13/1210r0 / 11-13/1216r0 , “Tag Solution Proposal 2”, Mark Hamilton (Spectralink)
Met jointly with ARC Tuesday morning.
The minutes of this TGak meeting will be in 11-13/916 and an annotated agenda is in 11-13/0953r6.
Donald Eastlake 10

11. 802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery
Initial technical presentations
r0 Protocol Architecture of aq
r0 PAD for Soft AP
r1 Two step service discovery for Tgaq
r1 TGaq option for service discovery mode
r1 Transaction Protocol
Updated documents
r3 Draft terminology
r0 Open Issues
r1 Specification Framework Document
Plans for November 2013
Initial normative text for draft
Continued technical presentations
Stephen McCann 11

12. 802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes
Completed processing comments received in LB Initial Letter Ballot
801 comments (713 LB, 88 remaining 2012 Call for comments)
Approved motion for recirculation LB on D2.0 (estimated open by Oct 4)
Completed resolution of ISO comments on IEEE Std
See
Request addition of P802.11REVmcD2.0 to IEEE store (pending successful recirculation ballot)
Dorothy Stanley 12

13. 802.11 High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) SG
Close to 50 submissions were covered during this meeting in areas related to:
Evaluation Methodologies, Simulation Scenarios, and Channel Models
MAC/PHY Technologies
Discussions related to possible progress on the PAR
A number of straw polls were conducted to sense the group consensus on topics related to simulation scenarios, evaluation methodology and channel models.
The SG agenda is available at:
Osama Aboul-Magd

14. 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC
One presentation at September 2013 meeting
Dynamic Sensitivity Control Improvement to area throughput ( wng-dynamic-sensitivity-control.pptx) – Graham Smith
Clint Chaplin 14

15. JTC1/SC6 SC ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
IEEE 802 has 10 standards in process of ratification by ISO/IEC under PSDO
JTC1 SC reviewed the status of various potential security projects in SC6
JTC1 SC reviewed status of security discussions with Swiss NB
JTC1 SC reviewed the status of various potential WLAN projects in SC6
JTC1 SC held a session on EUHT
Andrew Myles

16. Regulatory SC Discussed regulatory summaries for US, Canada and the EU
Discussed FCC proceedings and 13-84
Opening the 5 GHz bands
RF Exposure
DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team discussion (lively)
One proposal received so far
Will update FCC on joint Automotive/Wi-Fi industry interference mitigation development in December
Rich Kennedy

17. Architecture SC Opened call for volunteers for Vice Chair position
IETF/802 coordination update
802 Overview and Architecture – James Gilb (Editor)
With 802 O&A Editor, reviewed updated draft and confirmed resolutions were correct
Identified that mesh is not discussed, proposed text to add
Brief update on TGak (General Links) and 802.1Qbz bridging discussions
Type/Length versus LLC payload formats
OmniRAN – Michael Montemurro
No work for expected
IEEE 1588 mapping to
In Architecture group within IEEE 1588
Work not started yet, expected to be in a few months
Architecture of APs/DS/Portals, and concepts
No submissions/discussion this week.
802.1AC revision
Quick skim of proposed changes to subclause (12.2).
Needs in-depth review by architecture members.
Questioning where ’s “convergence function” should be in document, or in
Mark Hamilton 17