October 2012 doc.: IEEE 802.11-12/1353r0
IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs
Date: 2012-11-08
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / email
Li Chia Choo / Institute for Infocomm Research / 1 Fusionopolis Way,
#21-01 Connexis (South Tower),
Singapore 138632 / +65 6408 2591 /
October 31, 2012 (Wednesday) AM 10:00 – 11:00, ET
Notes – Wednesday, October 31st, 2012;
1. Dave Halasz (representing Motorola Mobility) is the chair of the TGah and was running this session. Chair called meeting to order at 10:04AM, ET.
2. Chair Halasz mentioned that there were introductions to two submissions to be discussed for this teleconference.
2.1. The introductions are:
2.1.1. Introduction to 12/1257 by Ron Murias (Interdigital),
2.1.2. Introduction to 12/1250 by Shusaku Shimada (Yokogawa Co.), et. al.
2.2. Chair Halasz asked if the authors were on the call. The authors answered yes.
2.3. Chair Halasz asked if there were any discussions on including these two introductions to submissions in the call agenda. None were heard.
3. Administrative items
3.1. Chair Halasz reviewed the administrative items and presented the links for accessing the related documents.
3.2. Chair Halasz reviewed the patent policy and meeting guideline.
3.3. Chair Halasz presented the Call for Potentially Essential Patents slide. Chair Halasz asked: “Are there any 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?” Chair asked: “If anybody wants to speak up now?” None was heard.
3.4. Chair Halasz reviewed other guide lines of the IEEE WG meetings.
4. The proposed agenda of the teleconference, which was circulated through the TGah email reflector, was reviewed. The agenda contained:
4.1. Call for secretary
4.2. IPR and other relevant IEEE policies
4.3. Prepare for face-to-face meeting November 11 – 16
4.3.1. Discuss expectations for submissions
4.3.2. Review meeting slots
4.3.3. There were no discussions on the agenda.
4.3.4. Chair Halasz asked if there were any other submissions. None was heard.
5. Prepare for face-to-face meeting November 11 – 16 in San Antonio
5.1. Chair Halasz showed the submission 12/1209r0, which is the agenda graphic.
5.2. Chair Halasz mentioned that we have 6 slots in all.
5.3. Chair Halasz mentioned that the Tuesday pm 2 slot has been designated as ad-hoc, but will be changed to full group meeting slot.
5.4. Chair Halasz asked if there were any questions on the meeting slots. None was heard.
6. Introduction to 12/1257 by Ron Murias (Interdigital)
6.1. Ron mentioned that this submission is a first attempt at specification text, put into normative text. The group could use the email reflector for discussions between F2F meetings. There is no motion and the focus is on the PHY. Ron also mentioned that he received a communication from Minyoung Park (Intel) saying that Minyoung was also considering the specification text structure.
6.2. Chair Halasz thanked Ron for his efforts and mentioned that having some draft text for PHY was appropriate, so that discussions could be started.
6.3. Ron mentioned that he would like to go through 12/1257 at the F2F meeting to show mapping between it and the SFD and what was missing.
6.4. Chair Halasz asked if there were any other comments. None was heard.
7. Introduction to 12/1250 by Shusaku Shimada(Yokogawa Co.), et. al.
7.1. S. Shimada mentioned that this introduction is to facilitate a short discussion at this teleconference, and then to follow up with the full set of slides in the F2F meeting.
7.2. The mechanism mentioned in this introduction is for ad-hoc type AP only (on slide 2). Further proposals for the actual frame theta will be given in the full submission at the F2F meeting.
7.3. Chair Halasz asked if there were any questions. None was heard, and Chair Halasz will put the submission 12/1250 on the agenda at the F2F meeting.
8. As there were no further discussions, the teleconference call was adjourned at 10.45AM, ET.
9. Attendance list
Dave Halasz – Motorola Mobility
Li Chia Choo – Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore
Zhou Yuan – I2R, Singapore
Zander Lei – I2R, Singapore
Mitsuru Iwaoka – Yokogawa
Shusaku Shimada – Yokogawa
Ken Mori – Panasonic
Harya Wicksana – Panasonic Singapore
Ron Murias – Interdigital
Fang Yonggong – ZTE Corporation
Lv Kaiying – ZTE Corporation
Sun Bo – ZTE Corporation
Simone Merlin – Qualcomm
Minyoung Park – Intel
Osama Aboul Magd – Huawei
Eric Wong – Broadcom
Matthew Fischer – Broadcom
Chittabrata Ghosh - Nokia
Minutes page 3 Li Chia Choo (I2R, Singapore)