1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 1 An introduction to the proposed IEEE802.11k PICS proforma Simon Black, Hasse Sinivaara Nokia simon@motix.demon.co.uk, hasse.sinivaara@nokia.com

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 2 What is a PICS? A Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement –A statement of which capabilities and options of the protocol have been implemented –Has a number of uses by implementers, suppliers, testers & users –A completed PICS proforma is the PICS for the implementation in question Much of this introduction is extracted from ISO/IEC 8802-11 Annex A

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 3 What does a PICS look like? From ISO-IEC 8802-11 Annex A –The main part of the PICS proforma is a fixed questionnaire, divided into sub-clauses, each containing a number of individual items. –Each item is identified by an item reference in the first column –The second column contains the question to be answered –The third column contains the reference or references to the material that specifies the item in the main body of the standard –The remaining columns record the status of each item, i.e., whether support is mandatory, optional, or conditional, and provide the space for the answers –Marking an item as supported is to be interpreted as a statement that all relevant requirements of the sub-clauses and normative annexes, cited in the References column for the item, are met by the implementation

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 4 PICS Status Symbols MMandatory OOptional O. Optional, but support of at least one group of options labelled by the same number Pred:conditional symbol, including predicate identification A predicate is either: –An item-reference for an item in the PICS proforma: the value of the predicate is true if the item is marked as supported, and is false otherwise. –A boolean expression constructed by combining item-references using the boolean operator OR: the value of the predicate is true if one or more of the items is marked as supported, and is false otherwise. Each item referenced in a predicate, or in a preliminary question for group conditional items, is indicated by an asterisk in the Item column See ISO/IEC 8802-11 1999

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 5 A.4.3 IUT configuration ItemIUT configurationReferencesStatusSupport *CF10Is Radio Resource Measurement supported? 7.3.1.4OYes, No A.4.11 Radio Resource Measurement extensions ItemProtocol CapabilityReferencesStatusSupport RRM1 Are the following Radio Resource Measurement capabilities supported? Radio Measurement Capability Signaling 7.3.1.4MYes, No RRM2 RRM2.1 RRM2.2 Action frame protocol for measurements Measurement Request frame Measurement Report frame 7.4 7.4.1.1, 7.3.2.19 7.4.1.2 MMMMMM Yes, No What does a PICS look like?

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 6 Proposed PICS proforma walk- through See normative text proposal in 11-03-869r0

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-03/889r0 Submission November 2003 Black/Sinivaara (Nokia)Slide 7 Motion To instruct the editor to add the contents of submission 11-03-0869r0 into the next version of the IEEE802.11k draft. Moved: Black Second: Y: N:A: