September 2006 doc.: IEEE 802.22-06/0198r0

IEEE P802.22
Wireless RANs

Minutes of the September 12 802.22.1 Task Group Conference Call
Date: 2006-09-12
Author(s):
Name / Company / Address / Phone / email
William Rose / WJR Consulting Inc. / 3 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT 06107 / 860-313-8098 /


Attendees:

Mark Kenkel

Kehang Wu

Carlos Caldeiro

Monisha Ghosh

Vasanth Gagdam

Jerry Kalke

Soo-Young Chang

Greg Buchwald

Ed Callaway

Gerald Chouinard

Agenda

1.  Attendance

2.  Approve Agenda

3.  Review and approve the Minutes of the August 29th, 2006 conference call

4.  Review comments, questions, and issues on proposals
a. Shure comments and responses
b. Other comments and responses

5.  General discussion on proposals, feedback to proposers

6.  Review agenda for September 2006 Interim meetings

  1. Other Business
  2. Next Meeting: 802 Interim Plenary Session, Melbourne, Australia

·  Monday – Thursday, PM2 sessions

·  Thursday evening, optional meeting if required

  1. Adjourn

Minutes:

The meeting was called to order at 11:06 AM EDT

Chairman Bill Rose was not available, so Vice Chairman Greg Buchwald chaired the call.

1.  The agenda was approved without dissention.

2.  The August 29th minutes approved without dissention

3.  Item 4 from the agenda: Review comments, questions, and issues on proposals
Mark Kenkel indicated that Edgar (Shure) will post to the reflector a document with regard to inter-beacon communications. There is also a request to understand the occupied bandwidth of both proposals. A further proposal will be made to split the UHF TV band into 10 channel segments; this could reduce the burden of the beacon as well as make manufacture of the beacons and antennas easier. Wideband solutions are difficult, possibly inefficient, and may incur additional cost to the broadcaster.

4.  Item 5 from the agenda: General discussion on proposals, feedback to proposers
It was requested that Motorola and Philips join forces and work together. Both parties agreed to meet in Melbourne to discuss the possibility of a merge.

5.  There was no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 10:25AMCDT

Submission page 1 William Rose, WJR Consulting, Inc.