January 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 January 2009 January 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda Date: 2009-01-15 Authors: Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

IEEE 802.11ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group January 2009 doc.: IEEE 802.11-yy/xxxxr0 January 2009 IEEE 802.11ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group Los Angeles, California 19-22 January, 2009 Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd (Nortel Networks) osama@nortel.com +1-613-763-5827 Technical Editor: TBD Secretary: TBD Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

General Flow of the TGac Meeting January 2009 General Flow of the TGac Meeting Monday AM2 Administrivia and Status Submissions AND TGac Process Presentation Wednesday PM1 Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Wednesday PM2 Joint meeting with TGad Thursday AM2 Submissions and TGs Process Discussion Teleconferences/Ad-Hoc Meetings Discussion and Votes Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

Miscellaneous Announcements January 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, Nortel Networks

January 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, Nortel Networks

Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform January 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, Nortel Networks

January 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, Nortel Networks

Call for Potentially Essential Patents January 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, Nortel Networks

Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings January 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, Nortel Networks

Automated Attendance Recording January 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, Nortel Networks

January 2009 Submissions 09/0035, “802.11ac Usage Models Starter Document”, Rolf de Vegt 09/0059, “802.11ac Selection Procedure”, Rolf de Vogt 09/0068, “IEEE TGac Usage Models- Preliminary States”, Phillipe Chambelin 09/0071, “Discussion on Functional Requirements”, Peter Loc 09/0088, “802.11ac Channel Models”, Qualcomm 09/0090, “Hi-Definition TV transmission over VHTL6 System”, Kunitoshi Nishijo, Baiko Sai, ShingoYoshizawa, Hiroshi Ochi, Kyushu Institute of Technology and Hokkaido University 09/0138, “OFDM-Related issues in VHTL6”, Marc Emmelmenn and James Gross, RWTH Aachen University Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

Monday, 19 January 2009 10:30– 12:30, Los Angeles Room Call meeting to Order Miscellaneous Announcements Review of IEEE 802 and 802.11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property, Inappropriate Topics, Etc. Approval of Agenda Approval of Minutes: Dallas meeting minutes: 11-08/1431r1 Teleconference minutes: None Call for Submissions Presentations 09/0086, “Task Group Process Overview”, Darwin Engwer 09/0059, “802.11ac Selection Procedure”, Rolf de Vogt 09/0090, “Hi-Definition TV transmission over VHTL6 System”, Kunitoshi Nishijo, Baiko Sai, ShingoYoshizawa, Hiroshi Ochi, Kyushu Institute of Technology and Hokkaido University 09/0035, “802.11ac Usage Models Starter Document”, Rolf de Vegt Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

Wednesday, 21 January 2009 13:30– 15:30, Los Angeles Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations 09/0071, “Discussion on Functional Requirements”, Peter Loc 09/0068, “IEEE TGac Usage Models- Preliminary States”, Phillipe Chambelin 09/0088, “802.11ac Channel Models”, Rolf de Vegt, Qualcomm Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

January 2009 Wednesday, 21 January 2009 16:00– 18:00, Los Angeles Room TGac/TGad Joint Meeting Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations 09/0138, “OFDMA-Related issues in VHTL6”, Marc Emmelmenn and James Gross, RWTH Aachen University Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

January 2009 Straw Poll #1 In order to clearly highlight protocol efficiency and enabling a clear comparison of OFDMA- and SDMA-based approaches, scenarios for performance comparison shall also include a larger number of STAs (at least larger than number of spatial streams) Yes: 6 No: 4 Abstain: 33 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

January 2009 Straw Poll #2 For a fair performance comparison, shall TGac clearly specify the degree of freedom available for OFDMA resource allocation (i.e. allocation of power and/or modulation per sub-carrier etc.)? Yes: 5 No: 14 Abstain: 28 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

January 2009 Straw Poll #3 Should TGac define a reference OFDMA allocation algorithm for objective comparison of different proposals? Yes: 4 No: 24 Abstain: 12 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

January 2009 Straw Poll #4 Should TGac clearly specify a scheduling approach on top of resource allocation algorithm? Yes: 2 No: 23 Abstain 18 Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:30– 12:30, Los Angeles Room Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations 09/00161, “802.11ac Usage Models Document”, Rolf de Vegt, Qualcomm Straw Polls and Motions Conference Calls Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks

January 2009 References Osama Aboul-Magd, Nortel Networks