1. November Plenary Closing Report
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November Plenary Closing Report
IEEE P Wireless RANs Date:
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2. IEEE P802.22 – Progress Report
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Outline
IEEE WG Agenda
IEEE P – Progress Report
IEEE P Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing (SCOS) Study Group Progress Report
Letters of Assurance
Past and Future Meetings
Likely WG Motions at the March 2017 EC Meeting
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3. IEEE P802.22 WG Agenda Opening Plenary Motions at the EC - None
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IEEE P WG Agenda
Opening Plenary
Motions at the EC - None
IEEE P Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing (SCOS) – Working Group Letter Ballot on Draft v2.0 completed
IEEE P Revision Project – Working Group Letter Ballot 1 Closed on 17th July 2017
IEEE P – PAR withdrawn
Tutorial – None
Closing Plenary (Thursday, AM2)
EC Meeting
IEEE Meeting Agenda for the November 2017 Plenary can be found here
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4. IEEE P802.22 On-going Projects
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IEEE P On-going Projects
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5. IEEE P802.22.3 Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing
The IEEE P Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing (SCOS) PAR was approved by the EC and the IEEE SA NESCOM in July / August 2014
The IEEE P Requirements Definition was completed during the Berlin Plenary Meeting
Call for contributions has been sent out. Interest from potential new members/ companies.
Functional Requirements Document Complete
Proposal Selection Criteria Completed
Mr. Roger Hislop (Internet Solutions, South Africa) elected to be the Chair of the IEEE Task Group.
Prof. Oliver Holland (King’ s College London) was elected to be the Vice Chair of the IEEE Task Group.
Dr. Nilesh Khambekar was appointed to be the Editor of the Task Group.
New Members Joining the Task Group – NTIA, Cognitive Systems, SpectrumFi, Sony
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6. Working Group Letter Ballot 1 Completed. Comment Resolutions Ongoing
IEEE P Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing Schedule and Timelines
2017
2018
2019 3 5 7 9 11 1
Task Group formed X
Functional Requirements
Call for Proposals issued
Selection Criteria
Technical/Informative Contributions
Proposal presentations
Baseline proposal selected
Draft for 1st letter ballot
1st letter ballot completed X 
Comment Resolution
2nd letter ballot completed
Comment Resolution and recirculation
Sponsor ballot
RevCom/NesCom Approval
Working Group Letter Ballot 1 Completed. Comment Resolutions Ongoing
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7. Apurva N. Mody, BAE Systems
IEEE P Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing Telecon Schedule
Johannesburg
Tokyo
Boston
Denver
Thu 15:00
Thu 22:00
Thu 09:00 *
Thu 07:00 *
Thu 16:00
Thu 23:00
Thu 10:00 *
Thu 08:00 *
Teleconference every other Thursday at 9 am ET which is 2 pm UTC
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8. IEEE P802.22.3 Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Working Group Letter Ballot
IEEE WG Letter Ballot
Launch Date
# of Comments Received
Comment Resolution Status
Response Ratio
Approval Ratio
Draft Status
WG LB #1
(P Draft v1.0)
August 2011
153
Comments were addressed and Resolved
76%
17%
P Draft v2.0 Prepared
WG LB #2
(P Draft v2.0)
October 2017 95
Comments to be addressed and Resolved
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9. IEEE P802.22 Revision Project
The P Revision PAR was Approved by the IEEE in March 2014
Work on the Revision Project has started
The revision project will:
Fold in the IEEE a-2014 and IEEE b-2015 Amendments to
It makes corrections to the IEEE Standard
The standard specifies operation in the bands that allow spectrum sharing where the communications devices may opportunistically operate in the spectrum of the primary service, such as 1300 MHz to 1750 MHz, 2700 MHz to 3700 MHz, and the VHF/UHF TV broadcast bands between 54 MHz to 862 MHz
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10. The Working Group Letter Ballot on Draft 1 was completed
IEEE P Revision Project
The Working Group Letter Ballot on Draft 1 was completed
Ballot Start Date: Sunday, June 18th, 2017
Ballot End Date: Monday, July 17th, 12 midnight, Anywhere on Earth.
Ballot Pool: WG Voting Members
Working Group Letter Ballot 1 Completed. Comment Resolutions Ongoing
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11. IEEE P802.22 Revision Letter Ballot
IEEE WG Letter Ballot
Launch Date
# of Comments Received
Comment Resolution Status
Response Ratio
Approval Ratio
Draft Status
WG LB #1
(P Draft v1.0)
August 2017
150
Comments were addressed and Resolved
76%
12%
P Draft v2.0 Prepared
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12. IEEE P802.22.1 Advanced Beaconing Progress Report
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IEEE P Advanced Beaconing Progress Report
IEEE Standard was published in 2010
Revision Project on IEEE initiated that incorporates Advanced Beaconing for protection of systems in HF, VHF, UHF, and S-Band (2-4 GHz). Call for contributions made
Functional Requirements Document Complete
2016 March 2016 – Proposal Selection Criteria
Motion to Withdraw this PAR in November 2016 due to FCC/ NTIA not picking up this concept in the 3.5 GHz CBRS Report and Order
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13. IEEE P802.22 Completed Projects
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IEEE P Completed Projects
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14. IEEE P802.22 Letter of Assurance
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IEEE P Letter of Assurance
The LoAs can be found on the website at as well as on the IEEE SA website
No new LoAs received.
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15. IEEE P802.22 Liaisons with ISO/IEC/JTC1 and WhiteSpace Alliance
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IEEE P Liaisons with ISO/IEC/JTC1 and WhiteSpace Alliance
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16. Completed Projects
Flagship Standard on Cognitive Wireless Regional Area Networks – Commercial Name Wi-FAR®, Uses Television Band unused channels, so called WhiteSpaces to provide long and short distance broadband connectivity
– Standard on Beaconing for co-existence. Uses beaconing technology from the primary users to alert the secondary users that the channel is being used
– Recommended practice for installation and deployment of IEEE Networks
802.22a-2014 – Amendment to the IEEE Standard on Management Information Base (MIB)s and Management Plane procedures
802.22b-2015 – Amendment to the IEEE Standard for Enhancement for Broadband Enhancements for the Broadband Services and Monitoring Applications

17. 802.22 Active Projects/Status
IEEE Revision:
Merges the a-2014 and b-2015 amendments
Adds new capabilities for spectrum sharing in other bands where spectrum sharing may be allowed
New technologies such Full Duplex Simultaneous Transmit and Receive
Projected Completion Date: November 2018
IEEE Spectrum Characterization and Occupancy Sensing:
Creates a new standard for distributed spectrum monitoring
Applications include spectrum management, spectrum de-confliction, interference monitoring and awareness, on-demand spectrum survey and reporting, coverage analysis, shadowing and fading analysis, spectrum mapping and spectrum planning

18. Projects for IEEE/ ISO/IEC PSDO process
– Approved to become an ISO Standard in 2015
802.22a and b – Approved to become ISO Standards 2017
No new Projects at this time need ISO approval.
802
Last draft liaised
60-day pre-ballot
5-month FDIS ballot
Comments resolved
.22a
Std
Jul 15
Passed
Apr 16 -
Nov 2016
.22b

19. Future Sessions IEEE 802.22 Future Sessions are planned as follows
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Future Sessions
IEEE Future Sessions are planned as follows
Session
Dates
Location
Plenary
March
Hyatt Regency O’Hare, Rosemont, Illinois
July
Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
November 11-16, 2018
Suzhou, China
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20. No Tutorials Sponsored by the IEEE 802.22 Working Group this time
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Sponsored Tutorial
No Tutorials Sponsored by the IEEE Working Group this time
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21. Motions at the EC Closing Meeting
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Motions at the EC Closing Meeting
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22. No Motions to the EC this Time

23. Motion for Approval of the IEEE 802
Motion for Approval of the IEEE b-2015 FDIS Comment Responses to the ISO/IEC/JTC1
Motion Text
EC Approves the IEEE Std b-2015 Comment Resolutions Responses for the FDIS Ballots as contained in Document::
(Rev2), empowers the Working Group chair to make the editorial changes as necessary to put the document in an appropriate template and forward it to the ISO/IEC/JTC1.  
Move: Apurva Mody
Second: Steve Shellhammer
For:
Against:
Abstain:
CHAIR REQUESTED THAT THIS MOTION BE BROUGHT IN AS AN MOTION
Background - Working Group Motion
Working Group motion to approve the comment responses for the IEEE b FDIS Ballot passed during the closing plenary. The comments resolutions are based on the guidance from the IEEE 802 ISO/IEC Standing Committee.
5 Approve/0 Disapprove /1 Abstain
Rules Reference
Clause of the Operations Manuel
Other

24. IEEE 802.22 has two standards in the pipeline for ratification under the PSDO
Last draft liaised
60-day pre-ballot
5-month FDIS ballot
Comments resolved
.22b
Std
Jul 15
Passed
Apr 16
27 Jul 17
Waiting
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25. IEEE 802.22b FDIS ballot passed and published but a response is still required
Drafts sent to SC6: sent
IEEE b was liaised in July 2015 to SC6 to allow them to become familiar with it before submission for approval under the PSDO process
60-day pre-ballot: passed on 3 April 2016 and response sent
IEEE b was submitted for 60-day ballot in December 2015, and after a delay the ballot passed on 3 April 2016 (N16415)
Support need for ISO standard? Passed 9/1/8
Support this submission being sent to FDIS? 8/2/8
China NB & Japan NB voted “no”
WG response was sent in Nov 2016
FDIS ballot: passed 27 July & published with response required
Passed on 27 July 2017 by 12/1/16 (N16690)
China NB voted “no” with two comments
The ISO/IEC/IEEE standard was published in Oct 2017
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26. There were two comments received on the IEEE 802.22b FDIS ballot
China NB Comment 1
ISO/IEC/IEEE :2015/FDAM 1:2017 is based on IEEE 802.1x. Since the technical concerns China NB proposed in 6N15555 still haven’t been reasonably disposed in this text, China NB has to vote against on this ballot.
China NB Change 1
Recommend not referencing the defective standards or enhancing its security mechanism
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27. There were two comments received on the IEEE 802.22b FDIS ballot
IEEE 802 response to China NB comment & request 1
The China NB has requested that IEEE 802.1X-2010 related descriptions are removed from the text of IEEE b.
IEEE 802 declines to make this change because:
IEEE b does not contain any IEEE 802.1X-2010 related descriptions
There is no technical justification to remove any IEEE 802.1X-2010 related descriptions from any standard
While the base IEEE specification does reference various IEEE specifications including IEEE 802.1X, IEEE b includes no such references.
IEEE 802 recognizes that the China NB has asserted this in past that man-in-the-middle (and other) attacks are possible against IEEE 802.1X based systems. However, the technical details of such an attack (or a demonstration of an attack) have not yet been supplied by the China NB. In the absence of technical substantiation of the claims, there is no justification to remove references to IEEE 802.1X from any standard.
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28. There were two comments received on the IEEE 802.22b FDIS ballot
China NB Comment 2
Cryptographic algorithms to be applied to information security mechanism may be subject to national and regional regulations. They should conform to national laws and regulations, and can be chosen according to specific requirements in different countries and regions. Therefore, it is not appropriate for this draft to require the same AES algorithm
China NB Change 2
It is suggested to clearly note that AES is optional. There is no specific implementation solution to establish security mechanism. It is recommended to provide several typical mechanisms in order to better achieve the interconnection between devices …
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29. There were two comments received on the IEEE 802.22b FDIS ballot
IEEE 802 response to Comment 2
The IEEE b Amendment and the base IEEE Standards have proposed the use of AES type of encryption for global coexistence and inter-operability of the devices
Providing for additional ciphers is an excellent idea and the China NB is invited to send participants to propose standards based ciphers in the context on-going revision to the IEEE Standard.
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30. References 802.22 November 2017 Plenary Working Group Agenda
November 2017 Plenary Working Group Meeting Motions
Slide 30
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