1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER
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Title: Liaison Report for
Date Submitted: January 17, 2013
Contributed to IEEE on January 17, 2013
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  Clint Chaplin, Liaison (Samsung)
Abstract: This document is the liaison report on

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3. 802.11 Groups 802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz
Successor to n at frequencies less than 6GHz
802.11ad – Very High Throughput 60GHz
Successor to n at 60GHz
802.11af – TVWS
TV White Space
802.11ah – Sub-1GHz
Sub-1GHz Operation
802.11ai – Fast Link Setup
Speed up initial link setup
802.11aj – CMMW
802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments)
Working towards

4. IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0483r0
January 2013
IEEE Standards Pipeline
MAC
GLK
802.11AK
PAD
802.11AQ
802.11aa
Video Transport
802.11ai
FILS
Smart Grid
802.11ae
QoS Mgt Frames
WNG ah
802.11af
TVWS
802.11aj
802.11ac
VHT 5GHz
802.11ad
VHT 60 GHz
PHY
Discussion Topics
Study
groups
Published
Amendment
Published
Standard
TG without
Approved draft WG
Letter Ballot
Sponsor
Ballot
Slide 4
Bruce Kraemer, Marvell
Slide 4
Page 4
Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

5. 802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz
Second Recirculation WG ballot LB190 on IEEE ac D4.0 closed November 1, Results: 242/15/ %
252 comments received: 103 technical, 149 editorial, 0 general
Resolved all comments
Going to recirculation ballot
Osama Aboul-Magd

6. 802.11 TGad Very High Throughput 60GHz
Published
Eldad Perahia

7. TGaf TV White Space
Second Initial WG Ballot LB189 on draft 2.0 closed August 19, Results 163/43/ %
Received 998 comments: 595 technical, 316 editorial, 87 general comments.
Finished addressing all the comments (this time for sure)
Will go out for recirculation after this meeting
Rich Kennedy 7

8. 802.11 TGah Less than 1GHz Work continued on specification framework
Update to the spec framework adopted
ah-specification-framework-for-tgah.docx
20 Specification framework submissions presented and passed 20 motions to update the specification framework document.
Hoping to go to internal task group ballot on draft in March 2013
Dave Halasz 8

9. 802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication
8 regular slots and 1 adhoc slots were held.
31 Contributions for Spec Text & Presentations
Scanning 21
Security 8
Other 2
10 Technical motions ( 9 passed/ 1 failed)
Approximately 80 pages draft of spec-text-documentation were approved
Hiroshi Mano (needs to be updated) 9

10. TGaj China MM-Wave
Meeting January 23-24, 2013 in Shenzen, China
Xiaoming PENG 10

11. Donald Eastlake (needs to be updated)
802.11ak General Link
New Task Group
Accomplishments
The Study Group made a minor change to its draft PAR (leaving the 5C unchanged) in response to a comment, resulting in r1. The new PAR draft was approved by the working group at the mid-week plenary.
The draft minutes of GLK will be in r1 and an annotated agenda is in /r7.
Thanks to Yan ZHUANG who served as Secretary for this meeting.
Presentations
“SG Presentation: CSN and BSS Bridging”, r0, Philippe Klein (Broadcom)
“Data reflection: What needs from ”, Norm Finn (Cisco)
“Picking a model for /802.1 bridging”, v04.pdf , Norm Finn (Cisco)
Donald Eastlake (needs to be updated) 11

12. 802.11aq Pre-Association Discovery
New Task Group
Summary
Continued discussion on scope & purpose, resulting in:
r6 (PAR)
r6 (5C)
Generated a liaison ( r1) to Wi-Fi Alliance sharing the PAR document; pending approval by EC & NesCom
Updated use case & requirements doc ( r0)
No teleconferences
Plans for January 2013
Call for Presentations
Draft Timeline & Officer Elections
Stephen McCann (needs to be updated) 12

13. 802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes
Continued processing comments received in the recent Call for Comments on IEEE Std ™-2012
372 comments (106 editorial)
Approximately 150 comments are resolved, 220 remain to be resolved
Editor has prepared
TGmc D0.0 =
TGmc D0.1 = ae
TGmc D0.2 = aa
TGmc D0.3 = D0.2+editorial defect fixes
TGmc D0.4 = D0.3 + September 2012 approved comments
TGmc D0.5 = D4.0 + speculative editorial comment resolutions
Planning on first WG ballot January 2013
Dorothy Stanley (needs to be updated) 13

14. 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC
Four presentations at January 2013 meeting
802.11: Looking Ahead to the Future – Part II ( wng looking-ahead-to-the-future-part-ii.pptx) – Osama Aboul-Magd
Applications and Requirements for Next Generation WLAN ( wng-applications-and-requirements-for-next-generation-wlan.pptx) - Huai-Rong Shao
A Physical-layer Network Coding Relay scheme for IEEE ( wng-a-physical-layer-network-coding-relay-scheme-for-ieee ppt) –
Joint Coding and Modulation Diversity for the Next Generation WLAN ( wng-joint-coding-and-modulation-diversity-for-the-next-generation-wlan.ppt) –
May start special BOF sessions.
Clint Chaplin

15. JTC1/SC6 SC ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6
Still a number of proposals from China national body to replace or amend various 802 standards. Unclear if they will move forward in the future.
SC6 has agreed to delegate responsibility of the revision of 8802 standards to IEEE 802 on condition that IEEE 802 have a mechanism set up that allows SC6 national bodies to participate in the revision process.
is now published as ISO :2012
Andrew Myles (needs to be updated)

16. Rich Kennedy (needs to be updated)
Regulatory SC
Regulatory Summaries
North America US
FCC NPRM TV band auctions, rebanding and TVWS
New testing KDBs including SAR and RF Exposure
Opening the 5350 – 5470 MHz and 5850 to 5925 MHz bands
Sharing the 4940 to 4990 MHz spectrum (comment period closed)
NPRM to resolve TDWR issue still in process (January/February)
Proceeding to enable sharing of 3550 to 3650 MHz due this month(?)
FCC mHealth initiative planned
Canada
Proposed rules for unlicensed TVWS use
European Union EC
On 17th October 2012 the Commission adopted a proposal for the revision of the R&TTE Directive
ETSI
The Lufthansa DA2GC project status – 2.4 GHz band excluded
Latest ETSI BRAN TVWS meeting was held September 10th – 12th
Progress on EN – now at v0.0.10
Next ETSI BRAN meeting December 5th
ERM TG11
Progress on EN v1.9.1
Industrial Automation pressing for geo-location to define industrial areas
CEPT
SE43 documents on Reconfigurable Radio Systems in the TVWS out for comment UK
Ofcom TVWS to continue conference calls to provide input to BRAN
Ofcom VNS plan to follow EU member nation approval of EN
Asia
NICT demonstrating database-controlled use of TV spectrum
TVWS being evaluated in Singapore and Korea
Singapore to take it commercial in 2013
Korea adopting rules patterned after FCC Part
Japan opening 5 GHz band channel size for ac in March
MIIT China studying 5 GHz band opening for unlicensed use
Rich Kennedy (needs to be updated)

17. Architecture SC
Brief update on General Links (GLK SC) and bridging discussions
Clarified that MSDUs in an A-MSDU are still LLC format (not Ethertype)
Noted that P ballot closed Nov 23
submitted comments, but they seem to have gotten lost(?) - investigating
IETF/802 coordination
Reviewed RFC 4441 update. No comments.
Will request a WG ePoll to collect comments on the next revision
802 Overview and Architecture Draft 1.6 letter ballot
Very few comments received working on it off-line (no face-to-face meetings), probably going to Sponsor Ballot next.
Architecture of APs/DS/Portals, and concepts
Spent considerable time reviewing all the related concepts, trying to relate to concepts in ’s architecture description
See 11-13/0115 for discussion
Mark Hamilton 17