High-efficiency WLAN Straw poll November 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/1507r1 March 2013 High-efficiency WLAN Straw poll Date: 2013-03-19 Authors: Laurent Cariou, Orange Stephen McCann, RIM

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November 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/1507r1 March 2013 Straw Poll Do you support starting a new study group called “high efficiency WLAN” to enhance 802.11 PHY and MAC in 2.4 and 5GHz with a focus on: Improving spectrum efficiency and area throughput Improving real world performance in indoor and outdoor deployments in the presence of interfering sources, dense heterogeneous networks in moderate to heavy user loaded APs Yes No Abstain Laurent Cariou, Orange Stephen McCann, RIM

Motion to create a Study Group November 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/1507r1 March 2013 Motion to create a Study Group Request approval by IEEE 802 LMSC to form an 802.11 Study Group to consider High-efficiency WLAN [as described in doc 11-13-0339r2] with the intent of creating a PAR and five criteria. Moved: <name>, Seconded: <name>, Result: y-n-a Laurent Cariou, Orange Stephen McCann, RIM

November 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/1507r1 March 2013 References [1] 13/0331r1: High efficiency WIFI – Laurent Cariou (Orange) [2] 13/0309r0: Next Gen Wlan - Ron Porat (Broadcom) [3] 13/0287r1: Beyond 802.11ac - A very high capacity WLAN - Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT) [4] 13/0343r0: Operator Oriented Wi-Fi – Dapeng Liu (China Mobile) [5] 13/0313r0: Usage Models for Next Generation Wi-Fi – Philip Barber (Huawei) Laurent Cariou, Orange Stephen McCann, RIM