September 2015 Opening Report Month Year doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 September 2015 September 2015 Opening Report Date: 2015-09-09 Authors: Notice: This document has been prepared to assist IEEE 802.19. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm John Doe, Some Company

Voter Summary IEEE 802.19 has 30 voting members September 2015 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Liaison Presentation on LTE-U September 2015 Liaison Presentation on LTE-U At the July Plenary we had a presentation on LTE-U by Jingyi Zhou and Mingxi Fan The presentation went well and we had a good discussion Presentation available in document 802.19-15/57r1 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

September 2015 3GPP LAA Workshop 3GPP hosted a workshop on LTE Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) on August 29, 2015 in Beijing China LAA operates in the 5 GHz frequency band, also used by the most recent version of Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11ac) The focus of the workshop was on coexistence of LAA and Wi-Fi in the 5 GHz frequency band A number of organizations were invited to attend and make presentations IEEE 802, Wi-Fi Alliance, Wireless Broadband Alliance, etc. Close to 300 people attended the workshop, which lasted all day There were six presentation each followed by good discussion as well as Q&A Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

3GPP LAA Workshop Presentations September 2015 3GPP LAA Workshop Presentations Licensed-Assisted Access to Unlicensed Spectrum – An Overview, 3GPP IEEE 802 submission to 3GPP LAA Workshop, IEEE 802 Wi-Fi and LAA Presentation by Wi-Fi Alliance to 3GPP LAA Workshop, W-Fi Alliance 3GPP Programs for LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum – Market Drivers and Deployment Considerations, Wireless Broadband Alliance Contribution to 3GPP LAA Workshop, A Group of Cable Operators Automotive Perspective on Licensed Assisted Access, General Motors Presentations are available at: ftp://ftp.3gpp.org/workshop/2015-08-29_RAN_LAA/Docs/ Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

September 2015 3GPP LAA Workshop The 3GPP members explained that during the work item (WI) many of the decisions are captured in the chairs report from each meeting RAN1 chair (Satoshi Nagata) volunteered to summarize the LAA portion of the RAN1 meetings and email to the IEEE Summary of recent RAN1 meeting sent to 802.19 email reflector A new topic that came up was Coexistence Testing RAN4 will begin to look at specifying coexistence testing IEEE 802 could provide inputs on this topic including Coexistence Scenario descriptions Coexistence Metrics Test Plan Description Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

September 2015 Task Group 1a (TG1a) The 802.19.1a PAR and CSD were approved by the Standards Board on September 3 Amendment to 802.19.1 to expand to additional frequency bands This week is the first meeting of the Task Group Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

Coexistence in the Automotive Environment – Interest Group September 2015 Coexistence in the Automotive Environment – Interest Group Formed an Interest Group on Coexistence in the Automotive Environment Interest Group Chair – Alaa Mourad (BMW Group) Held several conference calls so far Additional calls scheduled up till November Will meet at the November Plenary Several documents on the server 802.19-15/73r1 802.19-15/71r0 802.19-15/65r0 Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm

September 2015 Schedule Steve Shellhammer, Qualcomm