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Title: Heterog. Wirel. Netw. Mgmt. SG Status and Agenda
Date Submitted: March 15, 2010
Presented at IEEE session #37 in Orlando, FL
Authors or Source(s):
 Johannes Lessmann (NEC)
Abstract: Report on current status of the Heterogeneous Wireless Network Management SG and its agenda for session #37

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3. Current Status two main ongoing issues
Collect use cases and contributions from wider industry
Develop a common understanding of PAR scope
Re 1. ongoing (offline) discussions with several companies
Re 2. will hopefully move forward in this meeting
Confirmed contributions
Telcordia, Intel, China Mobile
Potential future contributions
MediaTek, ETRI, InterDigital, Beceem, DT, Aveiro IoT
Interested, but undecided FT

4. HWN Mgmt. SG Meeting Agenda
Monday, March 15th 2010, 9:00p – 10:30p x CFI tutorial will include slides on SG content
Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 8:00a – 10:00a Presentation of SG objectives to WNG
Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 4:00p – 6:00p internal slot:
Dapeng Liu, China Mobile: Use Cases/Experiments with heterogeneous wireless mesh networks
Subir Das, Telcordia: Cross-layer routing in het-nets, exploiting media independent link information
Wednesday, March 17th 2010, 10:30a – 12:30p internal slot:
Nageen Himayat, Intel: Use Cases/Ideas for multi-radio networks
Antonio de la Oliva, UC3M: Link Abstraction Model and lessons from testbed experiments
Friday, March 19th 2010, EC Closing Plenary Extend SG until July 2010