doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 1 May 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda Date: Authors:

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 2 IEEE ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group Montreal, Canada May, 2009 Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd Vice Chairs: Menzo Wentink (Qualcomm) and Joonsuk Kim (Broadcom) Technical Editor: TBD Secretary: TBD

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 3 General Flow of the TGac Meeting Monday PM1 –Administrivia and Status –Approve March minutes –Approve conference calls minutes –Submissions and TGac Process Presentations Tuesday evening –Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Wednesday PM1 –Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Thursday AM2 –Submissions and TGac Process Discussion –Teleconferences

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 4 Miscellaneous Announcements Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! –The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! Individual membership –In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. Photographs and Recordings –No sound recordings are permitted at WG or TG meetings. –No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. Media – Press and Analyst briefings –Only the /.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group.

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 5 Important Stuff Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. –Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: –Anti-Trust: –IEEE Ethics: –Letter of Assurance Form: –IEEE Patent Committee: –IEEE Patent Policy: –Patent FAQ:

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 6 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: –“Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims –“Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) –The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 –Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged –No duty to perform a patent search

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 7 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual Material about the patent policy is available at If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at or visit This slide set is available at

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 8 Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: –Either speak up now or –Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or –Cause an LOA to be submitted

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 9 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. –Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. –Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. –Technical considerations remain primary focus –Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. –Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. –Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details.

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 10 Automated Attendance Recording Go to (Documents: or or just –Sign-in –Claim attendance credit for each session. Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. You have to log in every session! Do NOT use 802wirelessworld for anything!

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 11 Monday, May :30– 15:00 Call meeting to Order Attendance Recording Reminder Review of IEEE 802 and Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics Miscellaneous Announcements Agenda Modification and approval Approval of Minutes –March 2009 Meeting Minutes, 11-09/0459r1 –Teleconference Minutes 9 April 2009, 11-09/0460r0 23 April 2009, r0 Selection of Secretary Call for Submissions Presentations

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 12 Motion to Approve Minutes Move to approve the January meeting minutes in /0459r1 and April 9 conference calls minutes in /0460r0 and 11-09/0527r0 –Move: Osama Aboul-Magd –Second: Minho Cheong –Approved by unanimous consent

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission r4 is the baseline document for the selection procedure r2 is the baseline document for the usage models Continue the work on functional requirements and evaluation methodology ( r0) Continue to work on channel models (09-308r2) No progress on Specification Framework TG Status May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 13

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission 09/451r1, “TGac Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodologies, Peter Loc (Ralink Technologies) and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/532r0, “SDMA Operation in ”, Yuichi Morioka (Sony Corp.) 09/536r0, “OBSS Issues in ac”, Vasushi Takatori, (NTT) 09/537r0, “Measured Doppler Frequency in indoor office environment”, Kentero Nishimori, Vasushi Takatori, and Wataru Vamada (NTT) 09/538r0, “Investigation in to the Doppler Mdoel”, Eldad Perahia, (Intel) 09/539r0, “Upsampling techniques”, Eldad Perahia (Intel) 09/542r0, “Channel Measurements in Corridors TGac”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/543r0, “Measured Channel Capacity and AoD Estimation for Multi-User MIMO Scenarios”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/569r0, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Supporting Material”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0574r0, “Multiuser MIMO Channel Measurements”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0575r0, “TGac Channel Model Update”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0308r4, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) Submissions May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 14

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission 09/536r0, “OBSS Issues in ac”, Vasushi Takatori, (NTT) 09/538r0, “Investigation in to the Doppler Mdoel”, Eldad Perahia, (Intel) 09/539r0, “Upsampling techniques”, Eldad Perahia (Intel) 09/537r0, “Measured Doppler Frequency in indoor office environment”, Kentero Nishimori, Vasushi Takatori, and Wataru Vamada (NTT) 09/0574r0, “Multiuser MIMO Channel Measurements”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) Monday Presentations May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 15

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 16 Tuesday, May :30– 21:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission 09/542r0, “Channel Measurements in Corridors TGac”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/543r0, “Measured Channel Capacity and AoD Estimation for Multi-User MIMO Scenarios”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/0575r1, “TGac Channel Model Update”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0308r4, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) Tuesday Presentations May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 17

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission Move to approve document /0308r5 as the first version of the ac channel model document Move: Rolf De Vegt Second: Eldad Perahia Yes: 21No: 0Abstain: 3 Motion May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 18

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 19 Wednesday, May :30– 15:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 20 Thursday, May : :30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations Conference Calls

doc.: IEEE /0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 21 Conference Calls Schedule June 11 at 11:00 ET June 25 at 20:00 ET