IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-09-0135-00-0000 Title: 802.11 Liaison Report for 2009/07 Date Submitted: July 16, 2009 Presented at IEEE 802.21 session #33 in San Francisco, California, USA on July 16, 2009 Authors or Source(s):   Clint Chaplin, 802.11 Liaison (Samsung) Abstract: This document is the liaison report on 802.11

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802.11 Groups 802.11n – High Throughput >100Mbps 802.11mb – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) Currently finishing changes that could not be completed in time for 802.11-2007 802.11p – WAVE Wireless Vehicle communication 802.11u – Interworking with External Networks MAC changes to accommodate, among others, 802.21; relies on 11k, 11r; scope agreement with 11v 802.11v – Wireless Network Management Management protocol additions; AP-AP negotiations; load balancing; access controls 802.11w – Protecting Management Frames Security for management frames, including broadcast frames; relies on 11k, 11r and 11u 802.11z – Direct Link Setup Enabling Direct Link with legacy APs 802.11aa - Video Transport Streaming Additions to support video 802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz Successor to 802.11n at frequencies less than 6GHz 802.11ad – Very High Throughput 60GHz Successor to 802.11n at 60GHz

802.11 TGmb 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes First Initial WG ballot on IEEE 802.11mb D1.0 closed June 27, 2009. Results: 155/23/29 87.08% 730 comments received: 491 technical, 239 editorial Working to resolve these comments; 3 comments currently resolved, but more to be voted on later today Planning on a recirculation after the September meeting. Matthew Gast

802.11 TGn High Throughput Fifth Recirculation Sponsor ballot on Unchanged IEEE 802.11n D11.0 closed July 3, 2009. Results: 198/20/17 90.83% Finished resolving the 1 comment from Recirculation Sponsor Ballot. Plan is to ask ExCom this week for unconditional approval to publish Bruce Kraemer

802.11 TGp Wireless Access for the Vehicular Environment Third recirculation WG ballot LB 151 on draft 7.0 closed June 13, 2009. Results: 158/27/26 85.41%. 180 unique comments received: 85 technical, 95 editorial TGp has resolved all the comments Draft 8.0 will go to recirculation after this meeting. Will be asking the Executive Committee this Friday for conditional approval to go to sponsor ballot Lee Armstrong

802.11 TGs Mesh Networking Third Initial WG Ballot LB147 on draft 3.0 closed May 3, 2009. Results 132/35/34 79.04% Passed! 1195 comments received: 778 technical, 417 editorial Working on resolving comments from LB147, estimate to have only 10-15% left to resolve in September Estimating to go out for recirculation WG ballot after the September meeting Donald Eastlake will be unable to continue as chair of the group; a successor is being looked for. Donald Eastlake

802.11 TGu InterWorking with External Networks Third recirculation WG ballot LB 152 on draft 7.0 closed June 19, 2009. Results are 142/19/33 88.20%. 225 comments received: 118 technical, 107 editorial Expecting to go to recirculation WG ballot on Draft 8.0 out of this meeting 3 MIH related comments; one accept, one reject, one counter Will be asking the Executive Committee this Friday for conditional approval to go to sponsor ballot Stephen McCann

802.11 TGv Wireless Network Management Second recirculation WG ballot LB 150 on draft 6.0 closed June 12, 2009. Results are 172/20/38 89.58% TGv received 140 comments from LB150, 93 technical and 47 editorial, and has addressed all of them. Will go to recirculation WG ballot on Draft 7.0 out of this meeting Will be asking the Executive Committee this Friday for conditional approval to go to sponsor ballot Dorothy Stanley

802.11 TGw Protected Management Frames Fourth Recirculation Sponsor Ballot for IEEE 802.11w Draft 11.0 closed June 28, 2009. Results are 110/6/9 94.83%. TGv received 0 comments from the recirculation. Plan is to ask ExCom this week for unconditional approval to publish Jesse Walker

802.11 TGz Extensions to Direct Link Setup Second recirculation WG LB143 on Draft 5.0 closed on June 23, 2009. Results are 183/15/34 92.42% Finished resolving the 97 comments received, 77 technical. Draft 6.0 will go out for third recirculation WG letter ballot after this meeting. Will be asking the Executive Committee this Friday for conditional approval to go to sponsor ballot Menzo Wentink

802.11 TGaa 802.11 Video Transport Streams Listened to 9 technical presentations Stream Classification Service (09/725r0) Implementation for Intra-AC Differentiated Services (09/0022r1) Applicability of .11s MCCA to HCCA OBSS (09/660r3) OBSS Sharing with Access Fraction (09/662r2) 40MHz Channel Selection (09/740r0) HCCAOP Scheme – Efficiency and Sharing 09/666r3) Proposal for OBSS (09/757r0) 20MHz versus 40MHz for Video (09/805r0) OSQAP OBSS Requirements Compliancy (09/882r0) Adopted the AC Prioritization and Drop Precedence submission into TGaa draft (726r1) Listened to the complete OBSS solution (757r1) and are evaluating the proposal against the requirements document. Met jointly with 802.1AVB Decided not to meet in the September Interim Estimating having a draft ready for first WG ballot in March 2010 Ganesh Venkatesan

802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz A new revision of the TG Channel Models Addendum document was approved by the TG (09/0308r6). A new revision of the Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodology document was presented. A motion passed to accept document 09/0451r4 as the baseline document. TGaa presentation on progress related to OBSS issues. Presentations related to Multi-User MIMO, Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA), Uplink Traffic Models and related technologies Estimated to have draft ready for first WG ballot in November 2010 Osama Aboul-Magd

802.11 TGad Very High Throughput 60GHz Task group documents: 09/0228r3, TGad Functional Requirements, Eldad Perahia 09/786r0, Selection Procedure, Eldad Perahia 09/0709r2, Lightly Compressed Video Traffic Modeling, Carlos Cordeiro 09/0296r7, TGad Evaluation Methodology, Eldad Perahia 09/769r0, Service Coverage Extension in IEEE 802.11 TGad, Kapseok Chang 09/768r0, Proposed Texts for Functional Requirement Document Draft, Sunggeun Jin 09/0797r0, Topology Considerations on Simulation, Sungrae Cho 09/835r0, Use cases, John Benko Channel Modeling (802.15.3c joint meeting) 09/874r0, Propagation measurements and considerations in conference room, living room and cubicle environments, Hirokazu Sawada 09/0860r0, Updated conference room channel model, Alexander Maltsev 09/0334r0, Channel Models for 60 GHz WLAN Systems, Alexander Maltsev 09/0743r0, Measurement campaign at 60 GHz in the living room environment at TUBS, Thomas Kürner (15 min) 09/0744r0, Influence of moving people on the 60 GHz channel –a literature study, Thomas Kürner (15 min) 09/0854r0, Implementation of 60 GHz WLAN Channel Model, Roman Maslennikov Other submissions 09/0782r0, Spatial Reuse, Carlos Cordeiro (60 min) 09/0802r0, The Lund High Speed Wireless Center: 60 GHz Research, John Anderson (40 min) 09/0796r0, Contention-based Directional MAC Schemes, Sungrae Cho (30 min) 09/0803r0, Multi-Channel Multi-Directional Contention Access, John Stine (45 min) 09/0804r0, Contention Mechanisms for Quality of Service and Energy Conservation, John Stine (30 min) Estimated to have draft ready for first WG ballot in December 2010 (PAR deadline) Eldad Perhia

802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generations SC Seven presentations at this meeting Bruce Nordman on 802.11 Energy Consumption and Policy 11-09-0817-01-0wng-qos-support-in-managment-frames.ppt by Michael Montemurro Motion to request the WG to form a study group for QoS for Management Frames: Yes – 34; No – 3; Abstain – 14. Motion passes. 11-09-0749-01-0wng-802-11-in-the-tvws.ppt by Rich Kennedy Motion to request the WG to form a study group for WhiteSpace: Yes – 39; No – 0; Abstain – 15. Motion passes. 11-09-0832-02-0wng-enhancement-technology-for-vehicular-communications.ppt by Woong Cho Straw poll: should WNG receive further presentations on this subject? a) yes – 13, b) No – 0, c) Need more information – 18 11-09-0830-01-0wng-public-easements-for-802-11.ppt by Richard Paine a) yes – 19, b) No – 0 11-09-0315-04-0wng-enhanced-security.ppt by Dan Harkins Motion to request the WG to form a study group for Enhanced Security: Yes – 22; No – 8; Abstain – 10. Motion fails. 11-09-0111-04-0wng-broadband-v2i-access-for-high-speed-transportation.ppt by Hitoshi Morioka Straw poll to form a study group for High Speed Broadband Access: a) yes – 6, b) No – 0, c) Need more discussion – 13, d) don’t care - 0 TK Tan

JTC1/SC6 Ad-Hoc ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Reviewed the outcome of the JTC1/SC6 Tokyo meeting Worked on suggestions for changes to the PSDO when it is renegotiated Needs to include some procedure to return comments to IEEE and for IEEE to respond to comments Andrew Myles will chair this group in the future Jesse Walker

IETF Ad-Hoc Did not meet Dorothy Stanley