1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER
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Date Submitted: January 15, 2015
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  Clint Chaplin (Imagicon)
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3. 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)
802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments)
Working towards

4. IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline
May 2011
doc.: IEEE /0483r0
IEEE Standards Pipeline
802.11
-2016
802.11
-2012
MAC
802.11AK
GLK
802.11aa
Video Transport
802.11AQ
PAD
802.11ae
QoS Mgt Frames
802.11ai
FILS
WNG
NGP
802.11ax
HEW ah
< 1Ghz
802.11af
TVWS
802.11ac
VHT 5GHz
NG60
802.11aj
CMMW
802.11ad
VHT 60 GHz
MAC & PHY
Discussion Topics
Sponsor
Ballot
Published
Amendment
Published
Standard
Study
groups
TG without
Approved draft WG
Letter Ballot
January 2015
Adrian Stephens 4
Page 4
Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

5. TGah Less than 1GHz
TGah has completed all comment resolution of the Letter Ballot 205 for Draft 3.0
14/1372 LB205 Comment Spreadsheet
Instructed the editor to generate Draft 4.0
Going out for recirculation letter ballot after this meeting
Yongho Seok 5

6. 802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication
Compete all of 999 comments resolution of WG LB204
Resolved 551 comments total this week
Approve to forward the draft D4.0 to WG recirc LB
Hiroshi Mano 6

7. TGaj China MM-Wave
Not meeting this week.
Xiaoming PENG 7

8. 802.11 TGak General Link Beginning Status Accomplishments
Started with 6 comments (6%) remaining, plus 4 other issues – We saved the hard ones for last, of course!
Accomplishments
Received and discussed the submissions listed on the next page. Resolved 3 comments, and 4 issues.
Opened 1 new issue
Met jointly with and ARC SC Thursday AM1.
A D0.07 will be produced will the resolved comments
An annotated agenda is in 11-14/1589r6.
Ending Status
3 comments (3%) remain. 1 other issue
Mark Hamilton 8

9. 802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery
Comment Collection
Editor created D0.04 from CC21
Letter Ballot
Worked on D0.05 together with various new submissions this week
Decided to go to a 30 day Working Group letter ballot
Motions in r0
Stephen McCann 9

10. 802.11ax High Efficiency Wireless (HEW)
Ad-hoc group chairs selected
MAC
PHY
Multiuser
Spatial Reuse
Passed a number of motions affecting the TG specification Framework
PHY numerology
Inclusion of legacy preamble
Multiplexing of acknowledgements to UL MU transmissions.
Etc.
Approved new revisions of Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology TG documents.
Other TG documents
Several technical documents presented
Osama Aboul-Magd

11. 802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes
Completed processing comments received in LB 202 – Second recirculation (779 comments, approximately 400 editorial)
Going out for recirculation after this meeting
Dorothy Stanley 11

12. 802.11 NG60 Next Generation 60GHz Study Group
6 submissions were covered during the meeting covering areas related to:
Technical
Draft PAR and CSD proposals
Reviewed the Study Group timeline.
Approved motions on PAR and CSD.
Edward Au 12

13. 802.11 NGP Next Generation Positioning Study Group
4 submissions were covered during the meeting on the following areas:
Draft PAR
Use cases
Technical feasibility
Reviewed the Study Group timeline.
SG chair elections.
Jonathan Segev 13

14. 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC
One presentation at January 2015 meeting
GNURadio and WLAN research ( wng-gnuradio-and-wlan-research.ppt) – Jim Lansford
Clint Chaplin 14

15. Regulatory SC Group decided to continue proactive regulatory work
Discussed regulatory issues, but no external actions required
DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team will continue meeting to complete:
A survey of opinions on the two proposals
Report to the FCC
Report for WG approval to send report and vote on the proposals
Discussed NGMN liaison letter and decided to reply that we will review their March white paper and send comments
Rich Kennedy

16. Architecture SC Architecture work MIB Design Pattern work item
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 ak and 801.1Qbz.
Refined some architectural pictures and concepts. Those groups will continue this in teleconferences.
Mark Hamilton 16