May 2014 doc.: IEEE 802.11-14/0593r0
IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs
Date: 2014-05-11
Author(s):
Name / Company / Address / Phone / email
Stephen McCann / BlackBerryLtd / 200 Bath Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL1 3XE, UK / +44 1753 667099 /
IEEE 802.11 Interim Meeting – Session #145
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA
May 12th – 16th, 2014
IEEE 802 Wireless Opening Plenary, Monday, 12th May 2014
8:03 Agenda 15-14-0222r2
8.03 Chair: Bob O’Heile (IEEE 802.15 WG Chair)
IEEE 802.11, 802.15, 802.18, 802.21 and 802.24 chairs called the joint meeting to order.
IEEE 802.11 attendance is included as Annex A.
General announcements:
· Lunches are both outside and inside (in case it rains)
· Social is at this event on the Lanai
Straw Poll of new attendees: 2
8:05 IEEE patent policy
IEEE 802.15 WG chair read the IEEE-SA instructions for the WG chair and displayed the four slides explaining patent policy and informed the attendees that additional information could be found on the PatCom web site.
Chair asked participants to identify patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) and/or the holder of patent claim(s)/patent application claim(s) that the participant believes may be essential for the use of that standard in the appropriate WG.
IEEE 802.15 WG chair read IEEE anti-trust policy.
8:10 Wireless announcements (15-14-0035r2)
There is only a secure WLAN this week, with the password as shown on the slide. Please synchronize your documents with the local server to save off-site bandwidth.
There is an IT help desk close to the IEEE 802 registration desk.
8:13 Financial report (11-14-0495r0, 15-14-0280r0)
Now using a new financial tool called netsuite, so the presentation has a slightly different format.
Chair: I would just like to thank all the treasurers for these new reports, using the new tool. They have spent many hours doing this.
8:22 Review future sessions (15-14-0222r2)
July 13-18, 2014, Grand Hyatt Manchester, San Diego, CA, USA, 802 Plenary Session.
September 14-19, 2014, Hilton Athens, Athens, Greece, 802 Wireless Interim Session*
November 2-7, 2014, Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA, 802 Plenary Session.
January 18-23, 2015 Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, GA, USA Interim*
March 15-20, 2015, Estrel Hotel and Convention Center, Berlin, Germany, 802 Plenary Session
May 10-15, 2015 Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Vancouver BC, Canada Interim*
Question (Q): How much will the registration fee be for the Athens (September 2014) fee?
Answer (A): $850. The IEEE 802.11/802.15 treasury will also be subsidizing this meeting.
Chair: During this week, each working group will have a serious of straw polls regarding the social at the Athens meeting.
8:27 Working Group Updates
802.11 by A. Stephens (Intel): 328 voters
Document 11-14-0510r0
TGREVmc – REVISION that is currently working on IEEE 802.11-2015
TGah- Sub 1 GHz
TGai – Fast Initial Link Setup
TGak – General Link
TGaj – China Milli-Meter Wave (they will meet next week in China)
TGaq – Pre-Association Discovery
TGax – High Efficiency WLAN
There are also various standing committees, looking at architecture, regulatory, publicity and wireless next generation (WNG).
802.15 by B Heile (ZigBee Alliance): 120 voters
Document 15-14-0222r2
TASK GROUP 3d - 100G
TASK GROUP 4m - 4TV
TASK GROUP 4n - CMB
TASK GROUP 4p - PTC
TASK GROUP 4q - ULP
TASK GROUP 4r - REVISION
TASK GROUP 8- PAC
TASK GROUP 9 - KEY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (KMP)
TASK GROUP 10 - L2R
SG SRU SPECTRUM RESOURCE UTILIZATION
SG 7a OPTICAL CAMERA COMMUNICATIONS
IG- 6TISCH
IG- DEPENDABILITY
IG- SEC
802.18 by Michael Lynch (11 voters) -18-14-0023r0
Update the IEEE 802.18 charter
Work with the new IEEE 802.11/15 regulatory group
802.21 Subir Das (20 voters) – 21-14-0081r0
802.21c -Single Radio Handover
802.21m - Revision Project
802.21.1 - Media Independent Services and use cases
802.21d MULTICAST GROUP MANAGEMENT
802.22 Chang-woo Pyo (NICT) (32 voters)
TGb – Enhancement for Broadband Services and Monitoring Applications
802.22.1 Advanced Beaconing Revision
SOS – Spectrum Occupancy Sensing Study Group
802.24 James Gilb
Scope expansion will be considered this week.
Possible Smart Grid and Automotive in the near future
OmniRAN is now IEEE 802.1CF and is not meeting this week.
8:53 Joint meeting adjourned
IEEE 802.11 Opening Plenary, Monday 12th May 2014
Presiding chair: Adrian Stephens (Intel) opened the meeting at 09:11 Hawaiian Aleutian Standard Time (HAST)
2nd Vice-chair (VC2): Dorothy Stanley Aruba
1st Vice-chair (VC1): Jon Rosdahl CSR
Secretary: Stephen McCann BlackBerry Ltd
There are 328 voting members of IEEE 802.11
There were 190 people in the room
Comment (C): please can the people on the top table explain their responsibilities.
VC1: responsible for various activities, meeting logistics and treasury.
VC2: responsible for rules, email reflectors and internal sub-group chairs co-ordination.
Secretary: responsible for the WG minutes, publicity and timeline chart.
1. Notices
1.1. No photographs at this meeting and please turn your mobiles to vibrate.
2. Approve/modify joint opening agenda (11-14-0470r3)
2.1. Chair: I’ve made some changes to the earlier posted agenda. So are there any more modifications required at this moment?
2.2. Q: What happened to the WBA slot
2.3. Chair: that has been removed.
2.4. Any objection to approving the approval of the agenda
2.5. Moved: Jon Rosdahl, 2nd: Dorothy Stanley
2.6. No objection, so the agenda is approved.
3. Meeting Graphic
3.1. This is a summary of all room allocations for the week
4. March 2014 Minutes (11-14-0287r1)
4.1. Review and approve joint minutes from the Beijing, March 2014 meeting.
4.2. Any objection to approving the March 2014 minutes 11-14-0287r1 by unanimous consent
4.3. Moved: Stephen McCann, 2nd: Jon Rosdahl
4.4. Following neither discussion nor dissent these minutes were approved by unanimous consent.
5. Attendance
5.1. Welcome to the 10 new participants in this meeting.
5.2. Chair: Please note that Stephen McCann (Secretary) will be holding a newcomer’s session at 10:30 this morning, as shown in document 11-13-0049r4.
5.3. The room is Waikoloa 1
6. Call for essential Patents (11-14-0499r0)
6.1. VC2: read out the current PatCom rules and then called for essential patents information, as shown by:
6.2. http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt
6.3. There were no issues raised regarding the call for essential patents.
6.4. VC2: read out other policies and procedures for the meeting.
7. Announcements
7.1. VC2: Please note that there have been some changes to the IEEE 802.11 Operations Manual (OM) since March 2014 and these will be reviewed again during the Friday closing plenary.
7.2. VC2: Remember that there are various email reflectors. Please let the VC2 know, if you wish to be added to an email reflector or wish to change your email address.
7.3. Joint meetings (11-14-0472r2 - slide #4)
7.3.1. TGak and ARC will have a meeting on Thursday
7.4. China Interim (11-14-0493r0 – slide #6)
7.4.1. This will occur next week in Beijing
7.5. Next Meeting – slide #6
7.5.1. This is in San Diego in July 2014
7.6. Recording Attendance – slide #8 and #9
7.6.1. Please remember to record your attendance for each 2 hour slot during the week.
7.7. Local File Server
7.7.1. Please try and use the local file server as much as possible to save off-site bandwidth. Note that the off-site server is the master document server and so the local intranet is the mirror, which can take about 5 minutes to synchronize.
7.7.2. Q: Could we have a local server that can allow a search facility.
7.7.3. A: Sure, it’s because the local server is just a folder structure.
7.7.4. C: By the way, for 75% attendance, I think you require 14 slots this week.
7.8. Social
7.8.1. This will be at 18.30 – 20.30 on Wednesday evening, with free drinks for the 1st hour. Please use the card that you have been given, as the hotel have provided some prizes for the ‘selfie competition’.
8. Awards (11-14-0472r0)
8.1. Chair: These will occur during the Wednesday plenary for TGac, TGaf and also Bruce Kraemer (the previous IEEE 802.11 WG chair)
9. EC meeting – July 2014 (11-14-0472r0)
9.1. Some topics will be presented during WNG this week, which may result in the creation of a new study group to be considered by the EC meeting in July.
9.2. In addition some groups will have PAR extensions (TGah, TGai) for consideration.
10. Status of all groups (11-14-0472r0)
10.1. Sub-Group Chair Elections
10.1.1. All sub-groups will have officer elections this week. All nominations will then be approved by the IEEE 802.11 closing plenary on Friday.
11. Group Summaries (11-11-0510r0)
11.1. Chair: Please look at these slides which show how all the current projects fit within the proposed IEEE 802.11-2014 revision.
11.2. Letter Ballots (slide #11)
11.2.1. This shows that the TGai letter ballot was successful.
11.3. ANA (slide #13)
11.3.1. No updates this time
11.4. Timelines
11.4.1. No recent changes, but please can all chairs send the secretary any required updates prior to the Thursday evening CAC meeting. It is expected that a new row for 11ax will be added by the end of the week.
11.4.2. Incoming liaisons (11-14-0519r0)
11.4.3. One from 3GPP RAN. This will be dealt with in TGmc on Wednesday PM2. It is regarding the use of RCPI and RSNI.
11.4.4. Q: Is there any background material as to why they wish to use these values?
11.4.5. A: There is a little background, and I invite you to read the liaison itself.
11.5. Editor’s meeting
11.5.1. Tomorrow morning at 7.00am, including the ANA status, style guides and numbering situation.
11.6. Publicity
11.6.1. Meeting this week to discuss an extension to the scope for generation of conference and educational material.
11.7. WNG
11.7.1. Three presentations are currently scheduled
11.8. Sub-group summaries
11.8.1. Special notes were mentioned for the following groups:
11.8.2. TGax
11.8.3. This is the first meeting for this task group this week, so some time is necessary to determine how the group will be organized.
12. Any Other Business
None
13. Recess
13.1. Meeting recessed at 10:12 HAST.
Wednesday, 14th May 2014
IEEE 802.11 Mid Week Plenary
Presiding chair: Adrian Stephens (Intel) opened the meeting at 10:31 HAST.
180 people present.
14. Approve/modify joint opening agenda (11-14-0470r3)
14.1. Chair: There are no changes to the agenda, as of the end of the Monday opening plenary.
15. Call for Essential Patents
15.1. Chair: please can I remind you about Letters of Assurance (LoA) that are required for the IEEE-SA.
15.2. Also the Call for Essential Patents from Monday still applies
15.3. No statements
16. CAC
16.1. Reminder about 19.30 HAST meeting on Thursday. The purpose of this meeting is to prepare for the Friday closing plenary and the room requests for the July 2014 meeting. It is in room Queens 6.
17. Liaisons
17.1. Bluetooth SIG
17.1.1. Nothing to report this time
17.1.2. Q: I have regular dealings with the exec director of this group and I will determine if they want a relationship.
17.2. Wi-Fi alliance (WFA) (11-14-0687r0)
17.2.1. The last WFA meeting was 3rd March in Singapore.
17.2.2. Current activities of interest to IEEE 802.11 include:
17.2.2.1. Responses about the 11b performance issues
17.2.2.2. Items about 11ah.
17.2.3. Ongoing projects include:
17.2.3.1. Hotspot 2.0 (802.11u)
17.2.4. Other interesting groups include: TVWS, Automotive and the Internet of Things (IoT).
17.2.5. The next face to face meeting on June 24th in Chicago, USA.
17.2.6. Chair: I’ve also spoken with the WFA liaison to see if we can improve our relationship. There is no update at the moment.
17.2.7. No questions.
17.3. IETF (11-14-0500r0)
17.3.1. The next face to face meeting is in July in Toronto, Canada: http://www.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.html
17.4. IEEE 802.18 : Radio Regulatory TAG (11-14-0687r0)
17.4.1. 2 items this week.
17.4.2. No questions
17.5. 3GPP
17.5.1. Verbal about the Wednesday PM 2 session today, to deal with the incoming liaison from 3GPP RAN about the RCPI and RSNI parameters.
17.6. TV White Space Usage in Japan (11-14-0677r0)
17.6.1. Chair: The slide #12 says non-licensed exempt. What does this mean?
17.6.2. A: This means that you have to register with the Japan ministry, before you can use it.
17.6.3. Q: This appears to be different from the FCC and Ofcom. This appears to be more for broadcasting. Will there be any internet access proposals?
17.6.4. A: Yes, I think so. It’s just because the hotspot market is just starting at the moment in Japan. Mobile broadband services will grow quickly.
17.6.5. Q: and this will be license-exempt?
17.6.6. A: Not sure, as it’s still under discussion.
18. Room changes (11-14-0470r4)
18.1. This version of the agenda shows the current room changes.
18.2. Chair: Are there any other changes I need to be made aware of?
18.3. None.
18.4. Chair: These updated room changes then apply.
19. Motions (11-14-473r1)
19.1. 60 GHz Study Group
19.2. Request approval by IEEE 802 LMSC to form an 802.11 Study Group to investigate the feasibility of substantially increasing the data rates of 802.11 in the 60 GHz frequency band [as described in document 11-14/0606r0] with the intent of creating a PAR and CSD (including five criteria).
19.2.1. Moved by Carlos Cordeiro, 2nd Stuart Kerry
19.2.2. For: 127, Against: 0, Abstain: 3 (Motion passes)
20. Award Ceremony (11-14-0516r0)
20.1. Chair: Photographs can be taken from this point in the meeting.
20.2. This document contains all the names of the award recipients for the following projects:
20.3. TGac
20.4. TGaf
21. Bruce Kraemer (Marvell) Appreciation Event
21.1. Chair: IEEE 802.11 would like to give their appreciation to Bruce Kraemer as the outgoing chair of IEEE 802.11.
21.2. This part of the meeting allowed an appreciation to be made and also for Bruce to say some words about his role as chairman as shown in submission 11-14-0664r0.
22. Any Other Business
22.1. Meeting recessed at 12:16 HAST.
Friday, 16th May 2014
IEEE 802.11 Closing Plenary
Call to order at 08:02 HAST by Adrian Stephens (Intel Corporation).
75 people present in the room.