1. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 1 May 2009 VHTL6 Meeting Agenda Date: 2009-04-12 Authors:

2. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 2 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

3. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 3 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 –Submissions and TGac Process Presentation Thursday AM2 –Submissions and TGac Process Discussion –Teleconferences

4. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 4 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.

5. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 5 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 http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html –Anti-Trust: http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf –IEEE Ethics: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics.html –Letter of Assurance Form: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf –IEEE Patent Committee: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.htmlhttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/index.html –IEEE Patent Policy: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt –Patent FAQ: http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdfhttp://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf

6. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 6 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

7. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 7 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

8. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 8 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

9. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 9 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.

10. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 10 Automated Attendance Recording Go to http://newton/11/attendance (Documents: http://802server.events.ieee.org/ or 172.16.0.10 or just http://newton)http://newton/11/attendancehttp://802server.events.ieee.org/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!

11. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 11 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

12. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 12 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

13. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission 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 TG Status May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 13

14. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission 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) Submissions May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 14

15. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission 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) Monday Presentations May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 15

16. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 16 Tuesday, May 12 2009 19:30– 21:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations

17. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission 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) Tuesday Presentations May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 17

18. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission 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: 21No: 0Abstain: 3 Motion May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 18

19. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 19 Wednesday, May 13 2009 13:30– 15:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations

20. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 20 Thursday, May 14 2009 10:30 - 12:30 Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Call for Submissions Presentations Conference Calls

21. doc.: IEEE 802.11-09/0464r2 Submission May 2009 Osama Aboul-MagdSlide 21 Conference Calls Schedule June 11 at 11:00 ET June 25 at 20:00 ET