1. 802.16m Closing Report May 15, 2008 Macau Session #55 2008-05-15
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2. 802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)
Into Session #55
Call for Comments on SDD (all)
130 comments
Approx 40 contributions
Call for SDD Contributions (approx 150)
UL Pilots & Resource Allocation (37)
Uplink Control (12)
DL MIMO (57)
Preambles (18)
HARQ (29)
DL PHY Rapporteur Report Output (14)
DL Control Rapporteur Group Output (17)
Relay Ad Hoc Report C802.16m-08/500 (18)
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3. 802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)
Results for the week:
Resolve several comments on EMD – Done, revised EMD, IEEE m-002r2 to be issued
Review Relay Ad Hoc report in Joint Session with TGj (Tuesday AM) and make TGm Relay decision – Done – Multi-Hop (more than 2) Tree Architecture to be adopted, other methods to be investigated if benefits can be shown. Also adopted some relay related text into SDD.
Resolve Comments on SDD – Done - accepted database IEEE m-08/018r2, and authorized editor to issue a revised SDD, IEEE m- 08/003r2
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4. 802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)
Results for the week:
Review Downlink PHY and DL Control Rapporteur Group outputs, decide on approach & SDD text (breakout sessions) – Done - Adopted the text contained in contributions C802.16m-08/298r1 (DL control) and C802.16m-08/517 (DL PHY) for inclusion into revised SDD
Review contributions from SDD Call for Contributions and appoint Rapporteurs to initiate draft text activities for input to session #56 Partially done– Reviewed about 50% of the input contributions into each CFC area and established Rapporteur groups to harmonize all inputs
New Rapporteur Groups Charter and scope are contained in IEEE m-08/023:
HARQ – Sassan Ahmadi, Shashikant Maheshwari, Thierry Lestable
Preamble – Dr. Chris Williams, Paul Cheng
UL Control – Roshni Srinivasan, Andrea Bacioccola
UL PHY- Ron Murias, Apostolos Papathanassiou, Changhoi Koo
DL MIMO – Minnie Ho, Zhouyue (Jerry) Pi, Yong Sun
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5. 802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)
Issue Call for Contributions on following new subjects:
UL MIMO Schemes, HARQ (PHY aspects)
Link adaptation schemes, Interference Mitigation, Power Control
Upper MAC (limited to addressing, mobility and power management)
Issue Call for Comments on newly adopted SDD text (only)
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