1. May 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda
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May 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda
Date:
Authors:
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2. IEEE 802.11ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group
May 2009
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IEEE ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group
Montreal, Canada
10-15 May, 2009
Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd
Vice Chairs: Menzo Wentink (Qualcomm) and Joonsuk Kim (Broadcom)
Technical Editor: TBD
Secretary: TBD
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Osama Aboul-Magd

3. General Flow of the TGac Meeting
May 2009
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General Flow of the TGac Meeting
Monday PM1
Administrivia and Status
Approve March minutes
Approve conference calls minutes
Submissions and TGac Process Presentations
Tuesday evening
Submissions and TGac Process Presentation
Wednesday PM1
Thursday AM2
Submissions and TGac Process Discussion
Teleconferences
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Osama Aboul-Magd

4. Miscellaneous Announcements
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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.
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Osama Aboul-Magd

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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:
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6. Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform
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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
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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
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Osama Aboul-Magd

8. Call for Potentially Essential Patents
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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
Osama Aboul-Magd
Osama Aboul-Magd

9. Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings
May 2009
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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.
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Osama Aboul-Magd

10. Automated Attendance Recording
May 2009
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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!
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Osama Aboul-Magd

11. Monday, May 11 2009 13:30– 15:00 May 2009 Call meeting to Order
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Monday, May :30– 15:00
Call meeting 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
March 2009 Meeting Minutes, 11-09/0459r1
Teleconference Minutes
9 April 2009, 11-09/0460r0
23 April 2009, r0
Selection of Secretary
Call for Submissions
Presentations
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Osama Aboul-Magd

12. Motion to Approve Minutes
May 2009
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Motion to Approve Minutes
Move to approve the January meeting minutes in 11-09/459r1 and April 9 conference calls minutes in 11-09/460r0 and 11-09/527r0
Move:
Second:
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Osama Aboul-Magd

13. May 2009
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TG Status
May 2009
09-059r4 is the baseline document for the selection procedure
r2 is the baseline document for the usage models
Continue the work on functional requirements and evaluation methodology ( r0)
Continue to work on channel models (09-308r2)
No progress on functional specification
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Osama Aboul-Magd

14. Submissions May 2009 May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0
09/451r1, “Tgac Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodologies, Peter Loc (Ralink Technologies) and Minho Cheong (ETRI)
09/532r0, “SDMA Operation in ”, Yuichi Morioka (Sony Corp.)
09/536r0, “OBSS Issues in ac”, Vasushi Takatori, (NTT)
09/537r0, “Measured Doppler Frequency in indoor office environment”, Kentero Nishimori, Vasushi Takatori, and Wataru Vamada (NTT)
09/538r0, “Investigation in to the Doppler Mdoel”, Eldad Perahia, (Intel)
09/539r0, “Unsampling techniques”, Eldad Perahia (Intel)
09/542r0, “Channel Measurements in Corridors Tgac”, Byung-JaE Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI)
09/543r0, “Measured Channel Capacity and AoS Estimation for Multi-User MIMI Scenarios”, Byung-JaE Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI)
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Osama Aboul-Magd

15. Tuesday, May 12 2009 19:30– 21:30 Call for Submissions Presentations
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Tuesday, May :30– 21:30
Call Meeting to Order
IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder
Call for Submissions
Presentations
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Osama Aboul-Magd

16. Wednesday, May 13 2009 13:30– 15:30 Call for Submissions Presentations
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Wednesday, May :30– 15:30
Call Meeting to Order
IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder
Call for Submissions
Presentations
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Osama Aboul-Magd

17. Thursday, May 14 2009 10:30 - 12:30 Call for Submissions Presentations
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Thursday, May : :30
Call Meeting to Order
IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder
Call for Submissions
Presentations
Conference Calls
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Osama Aboul-Magd

18. Conference Calls Schedule
May 2009
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Conference Calls Schedule
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Osama Aboul-Magd