IEEE 802.16 DCN: L80216-10_0080 Title: IEEE 802.21c TG Closing Report Date Submitted: July 15, 2010 Presented at IEEE 802.16 session #68 in San Diego Authors or Source(s):  H Anthony Chan (Huawei Technologies) Abstract: 802.21WG liaison Report

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802.21a Security Extension TG Down-selection was successful completed: All options have been accepted as part of 802.21a draft specification Editor presented 802.21a pre-draft specification: DCN 21-10-0148 and is making further editing Aim to start Letter Ballot after September 2010 meeting 21-10-0160-00-srho

802.21b Handovers with Downlink Only Technologies TG SG has the first draft P802.21bD01 WG has approved to send P802.21b D01 for a WG 30 day Letter Ballot. Will start comment resolution process at the September meeting 21-10-0160-00-srho 4 4

802.21c Optimized Single Radio Handover TG Discussion 3GPP IWLAN and SRVCC 21-10-135-00-srho SRHO Procedures 21-10-114-03-srho IEs a CS applicability for WMF SRHO 21-10-128-00-srho Amendment for WMF SRHO (Proposal) 21-10-131-02-srho incorporated into the TGc Framework Document 21-10-0160-00-srho 5 5

wireless network management SG 2 presentations to the SG in this meeting K. Grochla, W. Buga (Proximetry): Practical experiences with media-independent link control A. de la Oliva (UC3M), J. Lessmann (NEC), C. Niephaus (FhG): Heterogeneous Wireless Management for Coexistence 1 presentation of SG to the 802.21/802.19 joint session A. de la Oliva (UC3M), J. Lessmann (NEC), C. Niephaus (FhG): IEEE 802.19.1 as a Media Independence Service Layer 1 presentation postponed (I-Kang Fu, MediaTek) Plan for future progress: continue elaborating on use cases/requirements with previous presenters discuss overlap of SG objectives with 802.19.1 decision on how to proceed with SG will be made in Nov. latest 21-10-0160-00-srho 6 6

With other 802 WG 802 Architecture Discussion Contributed to the 802 architecture discussion. Proposing to add media independent control plane to the 802 reference architecture With 802.19 WG: Joint session with 802.19 to discuss how to complement each other’s work With 802.23 WG: Allowed 802.21 voting members to participate in 802.23 meetings with reciprocal voting right.