IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-15-0014-00-0000 Title: Report on 802.11 for 2015-01 Date Submitted: January 15, 2015 Contributed to IEEE 802.21 on January 15, 2015 Authors or Source(s):   Clint Chaplin (Imagicon) Abstract: This document is the report on 802.11

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802.11 Groups 802.11ah – Sub-1GHz 802.11ai – Fast Link Setup Sub-1GHz Operation 802.11ai – Fast Link Setup Speed up initial link setup 802.11aj – CMMW Chinese Millimeter Wave 802.11ak – General Link Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks 802.11aq – Pre-Association Discovery Pre-Association Discovery 802.11ax - High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) 802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) Working towards 802.11-2015

IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0483r0 IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline 802.11 -2016 802.11 -2012 MAC 802.11AK GLK 802.11aa Video Transport 802.11AQ PAD 802.11ae QoS Mgt Frames 802.11ai FILS WNG NGP 802.11ax HEW 802.11 ah < 1Ghz 802.11af TVWS 802.11ac VHT 5GHz NG60 802.11aj CMMW 802.11ad VHT 60 GHz MAC & PHY Discussion Topics Sponsor Ballot Published Amendment Published Standard Study groups TG without Approved draft WG Letter Ballot January 2015 Adrian Stephens 4 Page 4 Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

802.11 TGah Less than 1GHz TGah has completed all comment resolution of the Letter Ballot 205 for Draft 3.0 14/1372 LB205 Comment Spreadsheet Instructed the editor to generate Draft 4.0 Going out for recirculation letter ballot after this meeting Yongho Seok 5

802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication Compete all of 999 comments resolution of WG LB204 Resolved 551 comments total this week Approve to forward the draft D4.0 to WG recirc LB Hiroshi Mano 6

802.11 TGaj China MM-Wave Not meeting this week. Xiaoming PENG 7

802.11 TGak General Link Beginning Status Accomplishments Started with 6 comments (6%) remaining, plus 4 other issues – We saved the hard ones for last, of course! Accomplishments Received and discussed the submissions listed on the next page. Resolved 3 comments, and 4 issues. Opened 1 new issue Met jointly with 802.1 and ARC SC Thursday AM1. A D0.07 will be produced will the resolved comments An annotated agenda is in 11-14/1589r6. Ending Status 3 comments (3%) remain. 1 other issue Mark Hamilton 8

802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery Comment Collection Editor created D0.04 from CC21 Letter Ballot Worked on D0.05 together with various new submissions this week Decided to go to a 30 day Working Group letter ballot Motions in 11-15-0167r0 Stephen McCann 9

802.11ax High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) Ad-hoc group chairs selected MAC PHY Multiuser Spatial Reuse Passed a number of motions affecting the TG specification Framework PHY numerology Inclusion of legacy preamble Multiplexing of acknowledgements to UL MU transmissions. Etc. Approved new revisions of Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology TG documents. https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0571-07-00ax-evaluation-methodology.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0980-06-00ax-simulation-scenarios.docx Other TG documents https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0882-04-00ax-tgax-channel-model-document.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-1009-02-00ax-proposed-802-11ax-functional-requirements.doc Several technical documents presented Osama Aboul-Magd

802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes Completed processing comments received in LB 202 – Second recirculation (779 comments, approximately 400 editorial) Going out for recirculation after this meeting Dorothy Stanley 11

802.11 NG60 Next Generation 60GHz Study Group 6 submissions were covered during the meeting covering areas related to: Technical Draft PAR and CSD proposals Reviewed the Study Group timeline. Approved motions on PAR and CSD. Edward Au 12

802.11 NGP Next Generation Positioning Study Group 4 submissions were covered during the meeting on the following areas: Draft PAR Use cases Technical feasibility Reviewed the Study Group timeline. SG chair elections. Jonathan Segev 13

802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC One presentation at January 2015 meeting GNURadio and WLAN research (11-15-0121-00-0wng-gnuradio-and-wlan-research.ppt) – Jim Lansford Clint Chaplin 14

Regulatory SC Group decided to continue proactive regulatory work Discussed regulatory issues, but no external actions required DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team will continue meeting to complete: A survey of opinions on the two proposals Report to the FCC Report for 802.11 WG approval to send report and vote on the proposals Discussed NGMN liaison letter and decided to reply that we will review their March white paper and send comments Rich Kennedy

Architecture SC Architecture work MIB Design Pattern work item Discussed REVmc’s Figure 5-1, and clarifying the arrows in the role-specific following figures. Will continue this, targetting REVmc Sponsor Ballot for a proposal. MIB Design Pattern work item Considered guidance found in SNMP RFCs. Concluded four design patterns, in concept. Will write these up off-line, for next time Will start to scrub existing usage for any missing patterns next time IETF/802 coordination update No news Joint meeting with TGak, and 802.1 Discussed concepts shared between 802.11ak and 801.1Qbz. Refined some architectural pictures and concepts. Those groups will continue this in teleconferences. Mark Hamilton 16