1. Discussion for 11ah Functional Requirements
Month Year
doc.: IEEE /0xxxr0
Discussion for 11ah Functional Requirements
Date:
Name
Company
Address
Phone
Ping Fang
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Bldg 7, Vision Software Park, Road Gaoxin Sourth 9, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China,
Guiming Shu
July 2011
David Halasz, OakTree Wireless

2. Abstract
This submission is a preliminary submission for discussions on the functional requirements for TGah, based on the smart meter use case.
July 2011

3. Issues to be discussed (1)
802.11ah Network discovery
There may be many BSSs in the same area and each BSS may support multiple services.
STA should be able to find the proper AP easily
Association & Authentication
Collision is expected to become more serious with the increasing number of STAs compete for association & authentication
Contention-free period should be considered for Association & Authentication to reduce collision
July 2011

4. Issues to be discussed (2)
STA initial configuration
STA should report data periodically according to the service feature, for use case such as smart meter
STA need to be configured with duty cycle, server address and etc during initial link setup
Data report
STA usually has very few data to report for each duty cycle
Non-IP solution should be considered to improve throughput efficiency and reduce the frame length to save power
July 2011

5. Thanks
July 2011