1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER
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Date Submitted: March 18, 2010
Contributed to IEEE on March 18, 2010
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  Clint Chaplin, Liaison (Samsung)
Abstract: This document is the liaison report on

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3. Groups
802.11mb – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments)
Currently finishing changes that could not be completed in time for
802.11p – WAVE
Wireless Vehicle communication
802.11u – Interworking with External Networks
MAC changes to accommodate, among others, ; relies on 11k, 11r; scope agreement with 11v
802.11v – Wireless Network Management
Management protocol additions; AP-AP negotiations; load balancing; access controls
802.11z – Direct Link Setup
Enabling Direct Link with legacy APs
802.11aa - Video Transport Streaming
Additions to support video
802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz
Successor to n at frequencies less than 6GHz
802.11ad – Very High Throughput 60GHz
Successor to n at 60GHz
802.11ae – QoS MAN
QoS of Management frames
802.11af – TVWS
TV White Space

4. 802.11 TGmb 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes
First Recirculation WG ballot on IEEE mb D2.0 closed January 8, Results: 166/20/ %
246 comments received: 195 technical, 51 editorial
Working to resolve these comments; all but four comments have resolutions
Planning on a recirculation after the March meeting.
Matthew Gast

5. 802.11 TGp Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment
First initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 9.0 closed 22 November Results: 114/8/ %
156 comments received: 100 technical, 56 editorial and general
Resolved all comments.
First recirculation Sponsor Ballot on draft 10.0 closed 16 February Results: 120/5/ %
21 comments received
Resolved all comments; all voters of the comments have indicated that they are satisfied with the resolutions
Will go to recirculation after this meeting.
Will ask the ExCom Friday for conditional approval to publish.
Lee Armstrong

6. Theodorus (Dee) Denteneer
TGs Mesh Networking
First Recirculation WG Ballot LB159 on draft 4.0 closed January 8, Results 150/27/ %
809 comments received: 360 technical, 449 editorial
Working on resolving comments from LB159, have resolved 95%
Estimating to go out for recirculation WG ballot after this meeting
Theodorus (Dee) Denteneer

7. 802.11 TGu InterWorking with External Networks
First Sponsor ballot on draft 8.0 closed November 7, Results are 106/12/1/ %.
802.11u received comments, 156 technical and 180 editorial, and the BRC has addressed the comments.
12 MIH specific comments: 6 accepted, 1 accept in principle, 5 rejected.
Will go out for recirculation sponsor ballot after this meeting
Stephen McCann

8. 802.11 TGv Wireless Network Management
First Sponsor ballot on draft 7.0 closed November 7, Results were 105/25/1/ %
802.11v received 327 comments, 180 technical, 24 general, and 123 editorial, and the BRC has addressed all the comments.
Second Sponsor ballot on draft 8.0 closed February 17, Results were 112/22/1/ %
802.11v received 1045 comments, 988 technical, 23 general, and 34 editorial, and the BRC has addressed all the comments.
Will go out for recirculation sponsor ballot after this meeting
Dorothy Stanley

9. 802.11 TGz Extensions to Direct Link Setup
First Sponsor ballot on draft 6.0 closed November 6, Results are 103/15/0/ %.
802.11z received 218 comments; 174 technical, 11 general, and 33 editorial, and the BRC resolved all the comments.
Second Sponsor ballot on draft 7.0 closed February 27, Results are 105/16/0/ %.
802.11z received 49 comments; 27 technical, 18 general, and 4 editorial, and the BRC resolved all the comments.
Will go out for recirculation sponsor ballot after this meeting
Menzo Wentink

10. 802.11 TGaa 802.11 Video Transport Streams
January 2010
Listened to 4 technical presentations
Adopted resolutions to some internal review comments into TGaa draft (10/0055r1)
Adopted technical proposal in 09/850r4 into TGaa draft
Listened to interworking with 802.1Qat proposal in 10/0137r0
Planned for the joint meeting with 802.1AVB in March 2010
March 2010
Listened to 7 technical presentations
Discussed, resolved and approved corresponding contributions related to comments on Draft 0.02, D0.03
Empowered the editor to generate D0.05 incorporating approved internal review comment resolutions/new contributions.
Jointly met with 802.1AVB
Reviewed alternate solutions on interworking with 802.1Qat proposal and agreed on the best fit
Estimating having a draft ready for first WG ballot in May 2010
Ganesh Venkatesan

11. 802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz (1 of 2)
January 2010
Approved a set of rules for Ad Hoc groups operation ( r5)
Accepted a new revision of the TG Specification Framework document ( r3) that include:
A new MAC section
Accepted a new revision of the TG Channel Models Addendum document ( r10)
Channel coherence time value is changed from 400 ms to 800 ms based on measurements performed by NTT ( r0)
Presentations related to:
Preamble structure
Frame padding
TGac Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodology
Multi-Channel
Ad Hoc group reports are included in:
MU-MIMO ( r4)
Coexistence ( r3)
MAC ( r6)
PHY ( r3)
Estimated to have draft ready for first WG ballot in November 2010
Osama Aboul-Magd

12. 802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz (2 of 2)
March 2010
Continued with the Ad Hoc group meetings. Ad Hoc group reports are available at:
MAC Ad Hoc report  r2
PHY Ad Hoc report  r7
MU-MIMO Ad Hoc report  r2
Coexistence Ad Hoc report  r5
Motions passed to update the TG Specification Framework in areas related to:
Preamble structure with two VHT SIG fields and TBD auto detect form (R3.2.1.F and R3.2.1.G)
PHY Numerology excluding the maximum number of users for MU (R3.2.2.A)
Interference cancellation and Resolvable LTFs (R4.1)
Same modulation the same coding rate and coding type for all streams in SU transmission (R3.4.D)
VHT SIG A to include STBC and BW bit(s) (R3.2.1.H)
Accepted a new revision of the TGac Channel Models Addendum document
Accepted a new revision of the TGac Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodology.
Osama Aboul-Magd 12

13. 802.11 TGad Very High Throughput 60GHz
January 2010
Reviewed Notifications of Intent for proposals
38 new techniques proposals (30 min each)
12 to be presented in March
26 to be presented in May
4 complete proposals to be presented in May (60 min each)
Selection Procedure
adopted 09/0935r5 as the first draft of TGad selection procedure
Evaluation Methodology development
adopted 09/0296r16 as the first draft of TGad evaluation methodology document
Channel modeling development
adopted 09/0334r6 as the first draft of TGad channel model
March 2010
Presented 7 new technique proposals
Three presentations for additions to the draft of TGad channel model
Estimated to have draft ready for first WG ballot in December 2010 (PAR deadline)
Eldad Perahia

14. 802.11 TGae QoS MAN New task group; formed last November January 2010
Presentations:
Output:
March 2010
Shooting for Initial Working Group Letter Ballot in November 2010
Michael Montemurro 14

15. 802.11 TGaf TV White Space New task group; formed last November
January 2010
Held internal vote for officer candidates; both affirmed in the WG
Chair: Rich Kennedy, Research In Motion (14/0/0)
Vice-Chair: Peter Ecclesine, Cisco Systems (14/0/0)
Discussed “How we got here”; SG, ExCom, NesCom
Discussed the approved Scope and Purpose and the way forward
Reviewed the FCC Database Managers proposals and generated responses to bring to – will bring motion
Held a straw poll on how we will refer to the TVWS
Finalized and voted on Purpose, Principles & Vision/Outcome to guide the group through the project
Requested 3 teleconferences
Reviewed two NICT TVWS presentations
March 2010
Approved Peter Ecclestine as the Technical Editor
Adopted 11-10/238r2 as Draft 0.01
Heard 9 other proposals
Four of the 9 were encouraged to continue through straw polls
Estimate to go out to initial ballot May 2010
Rich Kennedy 15

16. 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generations SC
Three presentations at January 2010 meeting
Adding 900 MHz ISM band into ( wng-900-mhz-ism-band.ppt and wng-900mhz-par-and-5c.doc) – Dave Halasz
Motion to take PAR and 5 Criteria to full WG
Result: Yes - 15; No - 5; Abstain – 14: passed
Motion in full WG on Wednesday: Yes – 36; no – 18; Abstain – 32: fails
IEEE for High Speed Mobility ( wng-ieee for-high-speed-mobility.ppt) - Hiroshi Mano
An Example Protocol for FastAKM ( wng) - Hiroki Nakano
Does WNG think that we need tutorial session exploring the need for support for mobile communication?
Result: Yes - 18; No - 1; Abstain - 7.
Five presentations at March 2010 meeting
Heterogeneous Wireless LAN Mesh Interworking ( wng-heterogeneous-wireless-mesh-network-interworking.pptx) - Taejin Lee
Towards Carrier-Grade at Disney Theme Parks ( wng-towards-carrier-grade at-disney-theme-parks.pptx) – Stefan Mangold
Comments on Sub 1 GHz license-exempt operation ( wng-commentsonsub1ghz.ppt) – Dave Halasz
Fast Initial Authentication ( fast-initial-authentication.ppt) - Hiroki Nakano
Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Management ( wng-heterogeneous-wireless-networks-management.ppt) Network Management Study Group
Clint Chaplin

17. JTC1/SC6 Ad-Hoc ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
January 2010
JTC1 ad hoc recommended that a Chinese standards tutorial be held at the May 2010 meeting.
JTC1 ad hoc recommended that all SB draft be liaised to SC6 for review
March 2010
Reviewed status of SB drafts sent to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
11u/v/p/z were sent to SC6
Review status of PSDO related liaison sent to SC6 in Nov 09
We are likely to use PSDO process for 11mb rollup
Update on SC6 ballot to start a New Project related to WAPI
The WAPI NP proposal was approved
Update on plans for a tutorial in Beijing in May 2010 on the Chinese standards development process
It is going ahead, and teleconferences may be needed to assist planning
Andrew Myles

18. Regulatory Ad-Hoc January 2010 March 2010
Provided updates on relevant regulatory actions
Discussed the status of the revision of ERM TG11
Decided on comments to FCC on the TVWS Database Managers proposals; sent to RR-TAG
Discussed the impact of new 5 GHz certification rules
Small industry group meeting with FAA, NTIA and FCC
802.11a APs operating in DFS bands still on certification hold
Changes will likely require change to Bin1 radar test; may requires additional restrictions
Discussed the Ofcom consultation on “Geolocation for Cognitive Access”; decided response not required at this stage of the process
March 2010
Discussed the status of the revision of EN
Discussed the progress of changes to the 5 GHz certification rules
Discussed the Ofcom consultation on “Digital dividend: 600 MHz band and geographic interleaved spectrum; Consultation on potential uses
Will use Regulatory Ad Hoc and teleconferences to respond
Began the review of The National Broadband Plan
Rich Kennedy

19. IETF Ad-Hoc
Did not meet
Dorothy Stanley 19