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January 2011
Project: IEEE P Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs)
Submission Title:[Summary of MAC and MAC Frame group of comments from LB59]
Date Submitted: [Jan 14, 2011]
Source:[Ben Rolfe]
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Abstract:[Summarizes the MAC related comments from TTG4g LB59, with proposed resolutions, as presented during the January TG meeting. ]
Purpose:[support LB59 Comment resolution]
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Ben Rolfe

2. Summary of the Presentation
January 2011
Summary of the Presentation
Presentation summarizes comment resolution status for the MAC and Frame Format comments (as categorized in )
Already done (in November)
“ready to go” to TG next week
Includes comments covered by proposed resolutions agreed to yesterday
Not yet resolved, way forward identified for all
Some resolutions proposed
Some need discussion/work, suggest plan
One comment mis-categorized:
CID #70 9s on 6.3a.1.5
Ben Rolfe

3. Approved in Nov Accept Accept in Principle: Rejected:
January 2011
Approved in Nov
Accept
554: note in XLS says "A" but should be "AP“.
671: remove clause from 4g draft.
Accept in Principle:
105: Explanation given, no change.
490, 492, 493, 634: AP align frame formats with 4e draft.
329: "aNBPANSlotDuration" becomes "aBaseSlotDuration"
Rejected:
413: Reject: Clarifies purpose of figures 22
684: Reject, refers to g
Ben Rolfe

4. Proposed Resolutions Ready
January 2011
Proposed Resolutions Ready
PD-Data (categorized as MAC):
CID #35,36,66, 427, 202, 203, 208, 540: Comments on PD-Data parameters, resolved by removing primitive.
CID# 724: MCPS parameters inconsistent with PD-Data parameters: resolved by removing PD-Data.
202, 203 Removed primitives, all parameters
Ben Rolfe

5. Proposed Resolutions Ready
January 2011
Proposed Resolutions Ready
MCPS-Data parameters: Per minutes from 13-Jan, we agreed to resolution to comment #281 to remove TxChannel, PPDUCoding and FCS length parameters from MCPS-Data (table 77 and associated text), and to add a new PIB attribute phyFSKFECenabled.
Also resolves (Accept in Principle):
281, 282: Fixed by removing TxChannel parameter.
282,, 725: fixed by removing PPDUCoding parameter.
726: fixed by removing FCSLength parameter
494: resolved by removing TxData parameter
Ben Rolfe

6. Proposed Resolutions Ready
January 2011
Proposed Resolutions Ready
Other
84: Comment resolved by the roll-up. Note: Refers to g, but the comment appears to be on the parameters from the base standard. Either way it is fixed in the roll-up. Suggest udate r6 also to align with roll-up.
Ben Rolfe

7. New Proposed Resolutions (Easy)
January 2011
New Proposed Resolutions (Easy)
469: Use correct ACK length in equn: comment is correct, recommend Accept.
501: Frame format figures s/b consistent: recommend ACCEPT.
280: Suggest this resolved between the MCPS-Data comments and aligning with the roll-up. Recommend Accept in Principle.
880: Repeating MAC text; Recommend Accept.
727,728: Mode switch parameters in MCPS-Data should apply only to FSK? Recommend Accept in Principle; need clarification text that mode switch initiated from FSK mode only, but can switch to any PHY modes. Re-assign to mode switch.
Ben Rolfe

8. Work in progress/needs work
January 2011
Work in progress/needs work
681 (also fits in delayed ACK but addresses more)
Suggest work with delayed ACK and alignment with 4e
How "time" is specified (the meaning of 'time'). Work in progress:
214,328,336,380,682, 739, 887, 920, 737
Suggest engage WG TE to work on this w/appropriate technical input
737: Relates to how ‘symbols per octet’ is used to specify time
Delayed Acknowledgement (needs work)
59, 470, 623, 681, 889
502: use 4e ACK formats.
suggests 4e enables implementing the same functionality by the NHL
Suggest Phil and Ben can sort it out
Ben Rolfe

9. January 2011
Misc. Stuff
Resolution for 494 in XLS says ‘fixed by PD-Data” but that’s not right – use resolution from here instead.
Ben Rolfe