doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 1 March 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda Date: Authors:

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 2 IEEE ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group Vancouver, Canada 8-13 March, 2009 Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd (Nortel Networks) Vice Chair: TBD Technical Editor: TBD Secretary: TBD

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 3 General Flow of the TGac Meeting Monday Morning –Ad Hoc meeting –Call for Vice Chair position –Review from January and conference calls –Submissions AND TGac Process Presentations Wednesday PM1 –Administrivia and Status –Approve January minutes –Approve conference call minutes –Vice Chair election –Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Thursday AM2 –Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Thursday PM2 –Submissions and TGac Process Discussion –Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 4 Monday, 9 March :30– 11:00, Georgia Room Call ad hoc meeting to Order Selection of Temporary Secretary for ad hoc meeting Review of IEEE 802 and Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics Miscellaneous Announcements Approval of tentative Ad Hoc meeting agenda Presentations –09/0305r0, “TGac Status and Timeline” Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks –09/0161r2, “Usage Models”, Rolf De Vegt, Qualcomm –09/0059r3, “Proposed Selection Procedure”, Rolf De Vegt, Qualcomm –09/0306, “Proposal Regarding.11ac Evaluation approach”, Rolf De Vegt, Qualcomm –09/307r1,” Evaluation of AoD and AoA for TGac Channel Models”, Hemanth Sampath, Qualcomm Adjourn Ad Hoc meeting

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 5 Miscellaneous Announcements Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! –The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! Individual membership –In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. Photographs and Recordings –No sound recordings are permitted at WG or TG meetings. –No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. Media – Press and Analyst briefings –Only the /.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group.

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 6 Important Stuff Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. –Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: –Anti-Trust: –IEEE Ethics: –Letter of Assurance Form: –IEEE Patent Committee: –IEEE Patent Policy: –Patent FAQ:

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 7 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: –“Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims –“Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) –The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 –Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged –No duty to perform a patent search

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 8 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual Material about the patent policy is available at If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 9 Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: –Either speak up now or –Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or –Cause an LOA to be submitted

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 10 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. –Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. –Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. –Technical considerations remain primary focus –Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. –Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. –Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details.

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 11 Automated Attendance Recording Go to (Documents: or or just –Sign-in –Claim attendance credit for each session. Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. You have to log in every session! Do NOT use 802wirelessworld for anything!

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 12 Wednesday, 11 March :30– 15:30, Regency A Room Call to Order Attendance Recording Reminder Review of IEEE 802 and Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics Miscellaneous Announcements Agenda Modification and approval Approval of Minutes –January 2009 Meeting Minutes, 11-09/0225r0 –Teleconference Minutes 12 February 2009, 11-09/0241r0 Selection of Secretary Vice Chair election Call for Submissions Presentations

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 13 Wednesday Presentations and Agenda Vice Chair Election Motions related to selection procedure and usage models 09/308, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document”, Hemanth Sampath, Qualcomm 09/309, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document Highlights”, Hemanth Sampath, Qualcomm Tbd, “Channel Measurements”, Minho, ETRI Tbd, “Channel Models”, Peter Loc, Ralink Technologies

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 14 Thursday, 12 March :30– 12:30, Regency A Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 15 Thursday AM2 Presentations 09/0303r0, “Effect of SDMA in IEEE ac”, Naoki Honma, Kentaro Nishimori, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori(NTT) 09/0304r0, “TGac Functional Requirements”, Peter Loc (Ralink) and Minho (ETRI

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 16 Thursday, 12 March : :00, Regency A Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations Conference Calls

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 17 Submissions 09/0305r0, “TGac Status and Timeline” Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks 09/0161r2, “Usage Models”, Rolf De Vegt, Qualcomm 09/0059r3, “Proposed Selection Procedure”, Rolf De Vegt, Qualcomm 09/0306, “Proposal Regarding.11ac Evaluation approach”, Rolf De Vegt, Qualcomm 09/0303r0, “Effect of SDMA in IEEE ac”, Naoki Honma, Kentaro Nishimori, Riichi Kudo, Yasushi Takatori(NTT) 09/0304r0, “TGac Functional Requirements”, Peter Loc (Ralink) and Minho (ETRI) 09/307r1,” Evaluation of AoD and AoA for TGac Channel Models”, Hemanth Sampath, Qualcomm 09/308, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document”, Hemanth Sampath, Qualcomm 09/309, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document Highlights”, Hemanth Sampath, Qualcomm Tbd, “Channel Measurements”, Minho, ETRI Tbd, “Channel Models”, Peter Loc, Ralink

doc.: IEEE /0217r1 Submission March 2009 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel NetworksSlide 18 Conference Calls Schedule March 26 –11:00 – 13:00 ET April 9 –20:00 -22:00 ET April 23 –11:00 – 13:00 ET May 7 –20:00 – 22:00 ET