May 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 May 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda Date: 2009-04-12 Authors: Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

IEEE 802.11ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 IEEE 802.11ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group Montreal, Canada 10-15 May, 2009 Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd osama53@rogers.com +1-613-599-5078 Vice Chairs: Menzo Wentink (Qualcomm) and Joonsuk Kim (Broadcom) Technical Editor: TBD Secretary: TBD Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

General Flow of the TGac Meeting May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 General Flow of the TGac Meeting Monday PM1 Administrivia and Status Approve March minutes Approve conference calls minutes Submissions and TGac Process Presentations Tuesday evening Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Wednesday PM1 Thursday AM2 Submissions and TGac Process Discussion Teleconferences Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Miscellaneous Announcements May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Miscellaneous Announcements Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! Individual membership In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. Photographs and Recordings No sound recordings are permitted at 802.11 WG or TG meetings. No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. Media – Press and Analyst briefings Only the 802.11/.15/.18/.19/.22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group. Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Important Stuff Note the links from the items in red in the left column of all pages of the Working Group meeting agenda. Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html Anti-Trust: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf IEEE Ethics: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html Letter of Assurance Form: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf IEEE Patent Committee: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html IEEE Patent Policy: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Patent FAQ: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim,” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6.2 Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged No duty to perform a patent search Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3 Material about the patent policy is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee.org or visit http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html This slide set is available at http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Call for Potentially Essential Patents May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Call for Potentially Essential Patents If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: Either speak up now or Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or Cause an LOA to be submitted Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. Technical considerations remain primary focus Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. --------------------------------------------------------------- See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Automated Attendance Recording May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Automated Attendance Recording Go to http://newton/11/attendance (Documents: http://802server.events.ieee.org/ or 172.16.0.10 or just http://newton) Sign-in Claim attendance credit for each session. Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. You have to log in every session! Do NOT use 802wirelessworld for anything! Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Monday, May 11 2009 13:30– 15:00 May 2009 Call meeting to Order doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Monday, May 11 2009 13:30– 15:00 Call meeting to Order Attendance Recording Reminder Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics Miscellaneous Announcements Agenda Modification and approval Approval of Minutes March 2009 Meeting Minutes, 11-09/0459r1 Teleconference Minutes 9 April 2009, 11-09/0460r0 23 April 2009, 11-09-0527r0 Selection of Secretary Call for Submissions Presentations Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Motion to Approve Minutes May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Motion to Approve Minutes Move to approve the January meeting minutes in 11-09/0459r1 and April 9 conference calls minutes in 11-09/0460r0 and 11-09/0527r0 Move: Osama Aboul-Magd Second: Minho Cheong Approved by unanimous consent Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 TG Status May 2009 09-059r4 is the baseline document for the selection procedure 09-0161r2 is the baseline document for the usage models Continue the work on functional requirements and evaluation methodology (09-0451r0) Continue to work on channel models (09-308r2) No progress on Specification Framework Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Submissions May 2009 May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 09/451r1, “TGac Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodologies, Peter Loc (Ralink Technologies) and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/532r0, “SDMA Operation in 802.11”, Yuichi Morioka (Sony Corp.) 09/536r0, “OBSS Issues in 802.11ac”, Vasushi Takatori, (NTT) 09/537r0, “Measured Doppler Frequency in indoor office environment”, Kentero Nishimori, Vasushi Takatori, and Wataru Vamada (NTT) 09/538r0, “Investigation in to the 802.11 Doppler Mdoel”, Eldad Perahia, (Intel) 09/539r0, “Upsampling techniques”, Eldad Perahia (Intel) 09/542r0, “Channel Measurements in Corridors TGac”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/543r0, “Measured Channel Capacity and AoD Estimation for Multi-User MIMO Scenarios”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/569r0, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Supporting Material”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0574r0, “Multiuser MIMO Channel Measurements”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0575r0, “TGac Channel Model Update”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0308r4, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Monday Presentations 09/536r0, “OBSS Issues in 802.11ac”, Vasushi Takatori, (NTT) 09/538r0, “Investigation in to the 802.11 Doppler Mdoel”, Eldad Perahia, (Intel) 09/539r0, “Upsampling techniques”, Eldad Perahia (Intel) 09/537r0, “Measured Doppler Frequency in indoor office environment”, Kentero Nishimori, Vasushi Takatori, and Wataru Vamada (NTT) 09/0574r0, “Multiuser MIMO Channel Measurements”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Tuesday, May 12 2009 19:30– 21:30 Call for Submissions Presentations doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Tuesday, May 12 2009 19:30– 21:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Tuesday Presentations May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Tuesday Presentations 09/542r0, “Channel Measurements in Corridors TGac”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/543r0, “Measured Channel Capacity and AoD Estimation for Multi-User MIMO Scenarios”, Byung-Jae Kwak and Minho Cheong (ETRI) 09/0575r1, “TGac Channel Model Update”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/0308r4, “TGac Channel Model Addendum Document”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Motion Move to approve document 802.11-09/0308r5 as the first version of the 802.11ac channel model document Move: Rolf De Vegt Second: Eldad Perahia Yes: 21 No: 0 Abstain: 3 Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Wednesday, May 13 2009 13:30– 15:30 Call for Submissions Presentations doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Wednesday, May 13 2009 13:30– 15:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Wednesday Presentations May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Wednesday Presentations 09/0451r1, “TGac Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodologies, Peter Loc (Ralink Technologies) and Minho Cheong (ETRI) Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Straw Polls Require all TGac devices to support a minimum of 500 Mbps May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Straw Polls Require all TGac devices to support a minimum of 500 Mbps Yes: 6 No: 14 Abstain: 14 Delete the requirement R10 in section 2.4 related to mobile devices Yes: 13 No: 0 Abstain: 20 Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Straw Poll Keep R12 Remove R12 Keep R12  15 Remove  15 May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Straw Poll Keep R12 Remove R12 Keep R12  15 Remove  15 Don’t care  4 Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Thursday, May 14 2009 10:30 - 12:30 Call for Submissions Presentations doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Thursday, May 14 2009 10:30 - 12:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations Conference Calls Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd

Conference Calls Schedule May 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r0 May 2009 Conference Calls Schedule May 28 11:00 – 13:00 ET June 11 20:00 -22:00 ET June 25 July 9 20:00 – 22:00 ET Osama Aboul-Magd Osama Aboul-Magd