IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-10-0074-00-0000 Title: Heterog. Wirel. Netw. Mgmt. SG Closing Report Date Submitted: March 18, 2010 Presented at IEEE 802.21 session #37 in Orlando, FL Authors or Source(s):  Johannes Lessmann (NEC) Abstract: closing report of the Heterogeneous Wireless Network Management SG and motion to extend it

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Closing Report 3 Presentations to the SG in this meeting Dapeng Liu, China Mobile: Use Cases/Experiments with heterogeneous wireless mesh networks Subir Das, Telcordia: Cross-layer routing in het-nets, exploiting media independent link information Antonio de la Oliva, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: Providing Service Guarantees in Heterogeneous Wireless Mesh Networks 1 Presentation postponed (Nageen Himayat, Intel) Participation of the SG in 802.16x CFI tutorial Presentation of SG overview to 802.11 WNG Strawpoll on SG participant’s interest to extend SG: 11/0/0 (yes/no/abstain) Plan for future progress: continue offline discussions with interested companies collect additional use cases, technical input depending on input, start drafting PAR

Motion Motion to extend the IEEE 802.21 Study Group “Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Management” to examine issues related to supporting management of heterogeneous wireless networks (as per ref: 21-09-0187-00-0000), and if necessary create a PAR and five criteria to form a new Task Group." Mover: Juan Carlos Second: Junghoon Jee Yes: 15 No: 0 Abstain: 0 Result: motion passes