September 2014 doc.: IEEE 802.11-14/1292r0

IEEE P802.11
Wireless LANs

September 2014 Regulatory SC Meeting Minutes
Athens, Greece
Date: 2014-09-16
Author(s):
Name / Affiliation / Address / Phone / email
Rich Kennedy / MediaTek / 7305 Napier Trail, Austin, TX 78729 / +1 832-298-1114 /
Peter Ecclesine / Cisco Systems / 170 W. Tasman Dr.,MS SJ-14-4, San Jose, CA 95134-1706 / +1-408-527-0815 /


Sept 16, 2014 (Tuesday) AM2 10:30 – 12:30 local time

802.11/802.15 Regulatory Standing committee –

Chair, Rich Kennedy (MediaTek), opens the meeting at 10:33 am, Tuesday, and presents document 802.11-14/1212r1.

The Chair presents the Agenda for the week and asks if there are any changes:

•  Assign a recording secretary

•  Review and approve the agenda

•  Administrative items

•  Introduction

•  DSRC Coexistence

•  Regulatory summaries and presentations

•  [Potential] Action items

•  AOB

•  Adjourn

Peter Ecclesine (Cisco Systems) volunteered to take notes.

1)  Chair reads slide 3 Agenda for the week, and asks for changes. No changes were proposed and the agenda is adopted by unanimous consent.

2)  Chair reads Administration Items slide 4, SC Operating Rules slide 5, Other Guidelines slide 6.

3)  Chair reads Introduction slide 7.

4)  Chair reads Tuesday Agenda and DSRC slides 8, 9.

5)  Chair invites Jim Lansford (CSR Technology), chair of the DSRC coexistence Tiger Team to give us an update of their activities. Jim reviews 11-14/1261r0 Summary of activities since July F2F.

6)  24 conference calls to date. Best estimate to complete Tiger Team is January 2015 meeting.

7)  Chair states he would like to try to complete it in November.

8)  At 11:06am, Chair reads slide 11 Regulatory Summaries. All measurements of 2.3 GHz TDD-LTE showed blockages to RLAN devices operating on Channel 1. Some expect EN 300 328 v1.9.1 to be approved in February 2015.

9)  Chair reads slide 12 North America summaries, slide 13 is a list of the new FCC KDBs; four in DFS bands (slide 14), three in U-NII bands, and eight in other bands.

10)  Chair asks are there Potential Action Items. Richard Edgar (Imagination Technologies) notes there is an open consultation to increase the duty cycle in 870-873 MHz band for use by relays, and it might be of interest to 802.11ah. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/network-relay-points/summary/network-relay-points.pdf Richard requests that 1115 REG write a response before 14 October 2014. Individuals might read it and respond.

11)  Chair notes we have bi-weekly teleconferences.

12)  Chair asks at 1139 am is there any objection to adjourning at 11:40am local time.

Meeting Minutes page 1 Rich Kennedy, MediaTek