IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-16-0021-00-0000 Title: Report on 802.11 for 2016-01 Date Submitted: January 21, 2016 Contributed to IEEE 802.21 on January 21, 2016 Authors or Source(s):   Clint Chaplin (Imagicon) Abstract: This document is the report on 802.11

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802.11 Groups 802.11ah – Sub-1GHz 802.11ai – Fast Link Setup Sub-1GHz Operation 802.11ai – Fast Link Setup Speed up initial link setup 802.11aj – CMMW Chinese Millimeter Wave 802.11ak – General Link Enhancements For Transit Links Within Bridged Networks 802.11aq – Pre-Association Discovery Pre-Association Discovery 802.11ax - High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) 802.11ay - Enhanced Throughout for Operation in License-Exempt Bands Above 45 GHz 802.11az - Next Generation Positioning 802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) Working towards 802.11-2015

IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline May 2011 doc.: IEEE 802.11-11/0483r0 IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline 802.11 -2012 MAC 802.11 -2016 802.11aq PAD 802.11aa Video Transport 802.11ak GLK 802.11ae QoS Mgt Frames 802.11ai FILS 802.11az NGP WNG LRLP TIG Long Range Low Power 802.11ax HEW 802.11ah < 1Ghz 802.11af TVWS 802.11ac VHT 5GHz 802.11ay NG60 802.11ad VHT 60 GHz Currently in ballot 802.11aj CMMW MAC & PHY Discussion Topics Published Standard TIG/Study groups Published Amendment TG without Approved draft Sponsor Ballot WG Letter Ballot January 2016 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation 4 Page 4 Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

802.11 TGah Less than 1GHz Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 5.0 closed November 5, 2015. Results 115/12/11 90.55% Working on resolving remaining 155 unresolved comments out of 552 comments received. Yongho Seok 5

802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 6.0 closed September 15, 2015. Results 106/12/4 89.83% 760 comments received Resolved all remaining comments this session Going out for recirculation after this session Hiroshi Mano 6

802.11 TGaj China MM-Wave Did not meet in Atlanta First Initial WG ballot closed January 20. No results yet. Will resolve comments next week in Harbin, China Xiaoming PENG 7

802.11 TGak General Link First Initial WG Ballot on draft 1.0 closed May 6, 2015. Results 134/24/27 84.81% Passed! Working on resolving comments Hoping to go out for recirculation after this session Donald Eastlake 8

802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery Second Initial WG Ballot on draft 3.0 closed November 7, 2015. Results 202/16/39 92.66% Passed! 400 comments received Hoping to go out for recirculation after this session Stephen McCann 9

802.11ax High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) Passed a number of affecting aspects of the TG Specification Framework. PHY MAC MU Latest approved revisions of the Specification Framework is available at: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-13-00ax-spec-framework.docx Other TG documents https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0571-11-00ax-evaluation-methodology.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0980-16-00ax-simulation-scenarios.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0882-04-00ax-tgax-channel-model-document.docx https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-1009-02-00ax-proposed-802-11ax-functional-requirements.doc The TG received over 45 technical submissions. 22 PHY submissions 12 MAC Submissions 09 MU Submissions 01 SR submissions 04 submissions addressing TG issues A list of the submissions is available in the agenda document available at: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-1516-03-00ax-tgax-november-2015-meeting-agenda.ppt Osama Aboul-Magd

802.11ay Enhanced Throughout for Operation in License-Exempt Bands Above 45 GHz First meeting May 2015 18 submissions were covered during the meeting covering areas related to: Channel model Usage model Simulation scenario and evaluation methodology Technologies Significant progress is made in the development of specification framework document Edward Au

802.11az Next Generation Positioning First meeting September 2015 Use case document completed and motioned. Initiated the functional requirements document and approved accuracy/coverage and millimeteric wave positioning requirements. Entertained SFD and Technical editor and SFD editor elections. Jonathan Segev

802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 4.0 closed April 26, 2015. Results 147/21/9 87.50% 1838 comments received; all resolved Recirculation Sponsor Ballot currently open, closes January 26, 2016 Dorothy Stanley 13

802.11 NG60 Next Generation 60GHz Study Group Became TGay Edward Au 14

802.11 NGP Next Generation Positioning Study Group Became TGaz Jonathan Segev 15

802.11 LRLP Long Range Low Power Technical Interest Group First met September 2015 Reviewed and Discussed 8 contributions Updated output report to 11-15-1446r6 (output report is formal output of this TIG) Hoping to form study group March 2016 Tim Godfrey 16

802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC Two presentations at January 2016 meeting 802.11 and 5G/IMT-2020 – Joseph Levy (Interdigital) 802.11 and 5G/IMT-2020 – Andrew Myles (Cisco) Jim Lansford 17

Regulatory SC Reviewed items in process at the end of 2015 US EU FCC DSRC decisions – Chairman’s letter to DoC, DoT and Congress FCC trying to close on Globalstar TLPS FCC 14-30 implementation date pushed out to March 2016 EU ETSI ERM TG11 ETSI TC BRAN New challenges for 5 GHz band use WRC-15 Outcomes Other Proposed changes to 802 regulatory Rich Kennedy

Joe Levy (needs to be updated) Architecture SC Architecture work Discussed REVmc’s Figure 5-1, and clarifying the arrows in the role-specific following figures. Will continue this, targetting REVmc Sponsor Ballot for a proposal. MIB Design Pattern work item Considered guidance found in SNMP RFCs. Concluded four design patterns, in concept. Will write these up off-line, for next time Will start to scrub existing usage for any missing patterns next time IETF/802 coordination update No news Joint meeting with TGak, and 802.1 Discussed concepts shared between 802.11ak and 801.1Qbz. Refined some architectural pictures and concepts. Those groups will continue this in teleconferences. Joe Levy (needs to be updated) 19