<month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<030158r0> March 2004 Project: IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title: [802.11n liaison report to Working Group 802.15] Date Submitted: [19 March 2004] Source: [Jason Ellis] Company [Staccato Communications] Address [5893 Oberlin Dr., San Diego, CA, USA] Voice:[(858) 642 0111], FAX: [(858) 642 0161],E-Mail:[jason@staccatocommunications.com] Re: [] Abstract: [Liaison report] Purpose: [To inform the WG on progress in 802.11n during the March 2004 session] Notice: This document has been prepared to assist the IEEE P802.15. 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. Release: The contributor acknowledges and accepts that this contribution becomes the property of IEEE and may be made publicly available by P802.15. Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications <author>, <company>

Objectives & Status FRCC Simulation Scenarios Document March 2004 Objectives & Status FRCC Functional requirements document Previously approved as technical document obtaining 75% approval; modifications made Comparison criteria document Near approval, majority of week resolving comments – Approval expected in May Simulation Scenarios Document Comments not yet addressed – Approval expected in May Simulation Methodology Everyone agreed that there was nothing to agree upon for standardization – Status, abandoned Call For Proposals (CFP) Requires FRCC and Simulations Scenarios documents be approved Desire is to issue CFP in May Groups goal for 1st proposal presentations is September 04 Numerous presentations offered to the committee Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

March 2004 Additional Information Source: 11-04-0271-01-000n-tgn-march-opening-report Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

Mon & Tues (as amended) March 2004 Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

March 2004 Wed & Thu (as amended) Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

New Documents as of Sunday March 14 Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

Key Documents Key TGn Documents as of March ’04 Opening TGn Schedule 03- 0488 r0 TGn Selection Procedure 03-0665 r9 Selection Procedure Minutes 03-0740 r2 Channel Models 03-0940 r2 Usage Models 03-0802 r10 r13 Functional Requirements 03-0813 r9 FRCC Cumulative Minutes 03-0815 r6 r10 Comparison Criteria 03-0814 r13 r17 Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

FRCC Presentations - March FRCC Report and Process for TGn Meeting Adrian Stephens 04-0261r1 FRCC Template for Comments Adrian Stephens 04-0262r1 FRCC Items Carrier Frequency/Symbol Clock Offset Proposal for TGn FRCC Colin Lanzl 04-0209r3 Simple Model for Phase Noise Impairment for TGn CC Colin Lanzl 04-0224r0 TGN FRCC Proposed new IM6 Colin Lanzl 04-0229r0 TGN FRCC Proposed new IM7: Antenna Configuration Colin Lanzl 04-0240r0 Simulation effort required (FRCC) Bjorn Bjerke 04-0307r0 Comments on TGn FRCC Doc #11-03-814r17 George Vlantis 04-0302r2 Multiple Channel Modes in a Simulation Scenario John Ketchum 04-0211r0 Rate Adaptive Version of CC67 John Ketchum 04-0214r1 Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications

Simulation Methodology Speakers <month year> doc.: IEEE 802.15-<030158r0> March 2004 Simulation Methodology Speakers Times in minutes shown [in brackets] Sim Methodologies 0269r0 - PHY Abstraction based on PER Prediction - Ketchum 0218r3 - Simulation Methodology - Bruno Jechoux [45] 0183r3 - Record and Playback method – Hemanth Sampath [25] 0304r1 -  PER prediction for 802.11 MAC simulation - John Sadowsky [30] Others 0300r0 - A Comment on Black-Box adaptation for simulation methodology– Adrian Stephens 0316r1; Comments on PHY Abstraction; John Sadowsky [10] 0303r0; The System Issues of rate adaptation; Simulation methodology- Hujun Yin [15] Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications <author>, <company>

March 2004 Technical Presentations – Submitted for March – presentation may be delayed until May MIMO Ant OFDM Solutions for Enhanced PHY Alexandre Dias 04-0229r0 Turbo Codes for IEEE 802.11n Marie-Helene Hamon 04-0243r0 20ms Effective Preamble MIMO OFDM Seigo Nakao 04-0249r1 PCCC Turbo Codes for 802.11n Bart Van Poucke 04-0256r0 Number of MIMO Multiplex for 11n Standards Yusuke Asai 04-0259r0 Field Measurements of 2 by 2 MIMO Communications Babak Daneshrad 04-0263r0 Limitation on Range Extension using Multiple Antennas Heejung Yu 04-0279r0 Maximizing MAC Throughputs by Dynamic RTS-CTS Threshold Woo-Yong Choi 04-0312r0 LDPC vs. Convolutional Codes: Perf and Complexity Comparison Alexsandar Purkovic 04-0337r0 Rate Feedback Schemes for MIMO-OFDM Stephan ten Brink 04-0372r0 Jason Ellis, Staccato Communications