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Title: 802.11 Liaison Report for 2014-01

Date Submitted: January 23, 2014

Contributed to IEEE 802.21 on January 23, 2014

Authors or Source(s):

  Clint Chaplin, 802.11 Liaison (Samsung)

Abstract: This document is the liaison report on 802.11

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• 802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz– Successor to 802.11n at frequencies less than 6GHz

• 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– Chinese Millimeter Wave

• 802.11ak – General Link– Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks

• 802.11aq – Pre-Association Discovery– Pre-Association Discovery

• 802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments)

– Working towards 802.11-2015

802.11 Groups

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IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline - January 2014

PHY

SponsorBallot

MAC

Study groups

PublishedStandard

WG Letter Ballot

802.11 -2012

802.11aaVideo Transport

802.11acVHT 5GHz

TG without Approved draft

Discussion Topics

PublishedAmendment

802.11afTVWS

802.11aiFILS

802.11 ah

WNG

January 2014

802.11aeQoS Mgt Frames

802.11adVHT 60 GHz

PAD802.11AQ

802.11aj

802.11-2015

GLK802.11AK

HEW

Bruce Kraemer, Marvell Slide 4

Osama Aboul-Magd

802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz

• Published!

Rich Kennedy

802.11 TGaf TV White Space

• Approved by Standards board in December• Due to be published soon

Dave Halasz (needs to be updated)

802.11 TGahLess than 1GHz

• First Initial WG Letter Ballot LB200 on draft 1.0 closed October 19, 2013. Results 144/54/18 72.73% Failed

• Received 1984 comments.• Still addressing comments

Hiroshi Mano (needs to be updated)

802.11 TGaiFast Initial Authentication

• First Initial WG Ballot LB198 on draft 1.0 closed September 12, 2013. Results 147/51/22 74.24% Failed

• Received 1389 comments• Still working to resolve comments: 677

resolved so far

Xiaoming PENG

802.11 TGajChina MM-Wave

• Proposal of RoF Relay Transmission Usage Model (11-14/014r0)

• Update on Opportunistic Transmissions in Multiple Alternative Channels in 802.11aj (NT) - 11-13/1293r3

• Update on Spatial Sharing Mechanism in 802.11aj (NT) – 11-14/0009r1

• Update on TGaj Complete Proposal Presentation (CP) 11-13/1301r2

• TGaj Complete Proposal Text 11-13/1302r1

• Motion to approve Complete Proposal and Text as the baseline proposal passed

• Large-Scale Characteristics of 45 GHz Based on Channel Measurement (11-14/015r1)

• Reviewed the official timeline for TGaj in 11-13/0437r1

Donald Eastlake (needs to be updated)

802.11 TGakGeneral Link

• Accomplishments• Adopted the solution to the sub-setting problem in 11-13/526r3.• Adopted a timeline.• Received, discussed, and in some cases produced the following

submissions:• 13/0952, “Stacking Tags in LLC Media”, Norm Finn• 13/1216, “Tag Solution – Proposal 2”, Mark Hamilton• 13/0693, “Comparison of Receiver Subset Techniques”, Norm Finn• 13/0562, “Sub-Setting”, Donald Eastlake• 13/1453r0, “Testing 802.1Qbz consensus for LLC media”, Norm Finn• 13/1458r0, “The use of 802.11 Timing Measurement with P802.1AS in the

context of P802.11ak”, Kevin B. Stanton• Met jointly with 802.1 Thursday morning.• There were no objections to solution the tagging problem in 13/1216r0,

either in 11ak or at the joint meeting.• The minutes of this TGak meeting will be in 11-13/1463 and an

annotated agenda is in 11-13/1271.

Stephen McCann (needs to be updated)

802.11 TGaqPre-Association Discovery

• Technical presentations• Architecture

• 11-13-0788r2 Transaction Protocol Architecture• 11-13-1403r0 Service discovery architecture• 11-13-1091r3 Protocol Architecture of 802.11aq

• Protocol• 11-13-1415r0 Service Discovery with Association• 11-13-1396r3 Frame Formats for PAM• 11-13-1384r2 Service Transaction Protocol

• Requirements• 11-13-1435r2 Essential Requirements

Dorothy Stanley (needs to be updated)

802.11 TGmc802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes

• First Recirculation WG Letter Ballot LB199 on draft 2.0 closed October 23, 2013. Results 207/23/22 90.00%

• Received 497 comments

• Addressed ~180 comments

• Will incorporate 11ac and go to recirculation March 2014

Osama Aboul-Magd (needs o be updated)

802.11 High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) SG

• Yet another meeting with 40+ submissions:– Evaluation Methodologies, Simulation Scenarios, and

Channel Models– MAC/PHY Technologies– PAR proposals

• Discussed the WFA feedback on prioritization of the usage cases and approved a liaison letter back to WFA.– https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1446-00-0hew-ie

ee-802-11-liaison-to-wfa-on-priritization-of-high-efficiency-wlan-hew-usage-scenarios.doc

– Started the discussion on the PAR. • The SG agenda is available at:

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1263-05-0hew-hew-sg-november-2013-meeting-agenda.ppt

Clint Chaplin

802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC

• Three presentations at January 2014 meeting– Requirements for Next Generation mmWave Systems (11-14-0114-

00-0wng-requirements-for-next-generation-mmwave.pptx) – James “Train Wreck” Gilb

– Beyond 802.11ad – Ultra High Capacity and Throughput WLAN 2nd presentation (11-14-0136-00-0wng-beyond-802-11ad-a-ultra-high-capacity-and-tpt-wlan-2nd.pptx) – Gal Basson

– The New Public Phone Service - Non Contact Ultra High Speed Contents Download (11-14-0131-01-0wng-the-new-public-phone-service-non-contact-ultra-high-speed-contents-download.pptx) - Masashi Shimizu

Andrew Myles (needs to be updated)

JTC1/SC6 SC ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6

• IEEE 802 has 10 standards in process of ratification by ISO/IEC under PSDO

• The SC reviewed comments on 802.1X and 802.1AE during the ISO FDIS ballot

• Next SC6 meeting in Ottawa in Feb 2014

• Agenda is currently light but more items expected until 3 Jan 2014; currently no discussion scheduled on:

– Security topics; WAPI, TEPA-AC, TAAA, TISec– Other topics; UHT/EUHT, AP sharing, WLAN optimisation

• IEEE 802 will place several items on agenda– Updates of activity in 802.1/3/11 and maybe 802.15– Responses to FDIS ballot comments on 802.1X/AE & 802.11– Maybe report on outcome of discussions with Swiss NB on TEPA

• Bruce Kraemer was recommended as HoD– Likely to have four delegates (Kraemer, Harkins, Haasz, Carney)

Rich Kennedy (needs to be updated)

Regulatory SC• Discussed regulatory summaries for US,

Canada and the EU• Discussed FCC proceedings 13-49 and 13-84

– Opening the 5 GHz bands– RF Exposure

• DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team discussion– Detect and Avoid 11-13/994r0 (Cisco)– DSRC spectrum modification 11-13/1276r1 (Qualcomm)– Simulations in process; expect results early 2014– Presentation on Harmful Interference 11-13/1309r0

• Qualcomm DSRC coexistence presentation– Requires Part 90 changes to DSRC spectrum

Mark Hamilton (needs to be updated)

Architecture SC• Ad Hoc Monday: Collected comments on 802 O&A D1.7

– Sponsor Ballot recirc, closed Nov 12• http://www.ieee802.org/11/private/Draft_Standards/802architecture/802-rev-D1-7.pdf

– 802.11 comments:• https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1368-01-0arc-cc10-comments-on-802-o-a-d1-7.xlsx

– Results: 142,8,7 (out of 174 voters; 90% returned; 94% yes; 134 comments) Comments are here: https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/13/ec-13-0067-00-00EC-802-sb2-comments.ods

• Elected Vice Chair:– Joseph Levy (InterDigital)

• IETF/802 coordination update – Dorothy Stanley– RFC4441:

• Reviewed rev5, which has 802.11’s comments included• http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-rfc4441rev-05 • Editorial comments only

– CAPWAP:• Draft not ready yet• Will hold 802.11 Comment Collection ballot, when draft available• Possibly need teleconference to collect comments, or at Jan F2F

– PAWS:• Behind CAPWAP, coming soon

• 802.1AC revision– Reminder of 802.11 material in this document, not written by 802.11:– http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2013/acrev-nfinn-new-802-11-text-0813-v02.pdf

• IEEE 1588 mapping to 802.11– Work not started yet, expected to be in a couple months

• Architecture of APs/DS/Portals, and 802.1 concepts– One submissions this week: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1436-00-0arc-alternative-dual-band-ap-reference-

model-graphic.pptx – Working on Reference Model diagram updates