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Session #62 NRR Working Group Ad Hoc Committee Closing Report July 16,

In November 2008, the Working Group has approved the creation of a WG Ad Hoc Committee with the objective of promoting discussion on robustness and reliability Committee reflector and document upload area – – Study the potential interest of the WG to launch a new standardization activity for a highly-reliable and highly- robust system NRR Ad Hoc Committee 3

Activities of the week 2 sessions have been planned during the week –Wednesday morning (presentation of contributions) –Wednesday afternoon (discussion of project requirements) Participation –Attendees : 10 –Represented companies: LinQuest, France Telecom, InterDigital, Alvarion, BAE, PureWave, I2R NRR project requirement defined 4

NRR Report Reviewed proposed text in contributions; Reviewed multiple potential approaches to address the project requirements. Reviewed existing standards to identify project requirements were not covered. Added agreed project requirements to the NRR report (80216nrr-08_004r3) 5

Project Requirements Ability to operate without an attached infrastructure; Local forwarding by relay stations (MS-RS-MS); Capability of dynamic self reconfiguration; End-to-End Path redundancy; Enhancement to Mobile Relay Station; Security enhancement as required by above features

Motion Motion for extending the NRR Ad Hoc to Nov 2009 session to work on draft PAR and top level technical approaches. MoveSecondDecision 7

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Activities since the NRR creation Meetings have been planned at the 3 previous sessions A reflector has been used for discussions in-between sessions –65 members 5 conference calls A report has been drafted New members to be appended 9