January Opening Report Date: 2009-01-19 Authors: Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Executive Committee Study Group January 2009 Executive Committee Study Group In November the FCC issued a report and order allowing unlicensed operation in unused TV channels (“White Space”) In November the IEEE 802 executive committee formed an executive committee study group (ECSG) on the TV white space Interest from multiple working groups Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Reflector and Documents January 2009 Reflector and Documents An email reflector was established WHITESPACE@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG Documents can be found on Mentor https://mentor.ieee.org/802-sg-whitespace/documents Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Conference calls for Ad-hoc committees January 2009 Conference Calls Conference calls Study Group calls Conference calls for Ad-hoc committees Use Cases Potential Standards Coexistence Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Meetings this Week Three two-hour meetings Agenda Topics January 2009 Meetings this Week Three two-hour meetings Tuesday PM1, Wednesday PM1, Thursday PM1 Agenda Topics Review of TV Whitespace Use Cases Review of Coexistence status / straw polls Review of possible common functions across IEEE 802 Tutorial Planning Discuss impact of R&O Straw polls on possible recommendations from ECSG Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Electronic Participation January 2009 Electronic Participation We will be running an experiment at this study group meeting People will be able to participate electronically Conference call WebEx Straw polls on this experiment Subsequent discussion of 802 executive committee on whether this should be used in the future Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Post January Meeting Continued Conference Calls Tutorial on TV white space at March Plenary Recommendations to executive committee on next steps, at March Plenary Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm