1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER
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Date Submitted: January 21, 2016
Contributed to IEEE on January 21, 2016
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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)
802.11ay - Enhanced Throughout for Operation in License-Exempt Bands Above 45 GHz
802.11az - Next Generation Positioning
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
-2012
MAC
802.11
-2016
802.11aq
PAD
802.11aa
Video Transport
802.11ak
GLK
802.11ae
QoS Mgt Frames
802.11ai
FILS
802.11az
NGP
WNG
LRLP TIG
Long Range
Low Power
802.11ax
HEW
802.11ah
< 1Ghz
802.11af
TVWS
802.11ac
VHT 5GHz
802.11ay
NG60
802.11ad
VHT 60 GHz
Currently in ballot
802.11aj
CMMW
MAC & PHY
Discussion Topics
Published
Standard
TIG/Study
groups
Published
Amendment
TG without
Approved draft
Sponsor
Ballot WG
Letter Ballot
January 2016
Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation 4
Page 4
Bruce Kraemer (Marvell)

5. TGah Less than 1GHz
Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 5.0 closed November 5, Results 115/12/ %
Working on resolving remaining 155 unresolved comments out of 552 comments received.
Yongho Seok 5

6. 802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication
Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 6.0 closed September 15, Results 106/12/ %
760 comments received
Resolved all remaining comments this session
Going out for recirculation after this session
Hiroshi Mano 6

7. 802.11 TGaj China MM-Wave Did not meet in Atlanta
First Initial WG ballot closed January 20. No results yet.
Will resolve comments next week in Harbin, China
Xiaoming PENG 7

8. TGak General Link
First Initial WG Ballot on draft 1.0 closed May 6, Results 134/24/ % Passed!
Working on resolving comments
Hoping to go out for recirculation after this session
Donald Eastlake 8

9. 802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery
Second Initial WG Ballot on draft 3.0 closed November 7, Results 202/16/ % Passed!
400 comments received
Hoping to go out for recirculation after this session
Stephen McCann 9

10. 802.11ax High Efficiency Wireless (HEW)
Passed a number of affecting aspects of the TG Specification Framework.
PHY
MAC MU
Latest approved revisions of the Specification Framework is available at:
Other TG documents
The TG received over 45 technical submissions.
22 PHY submissions
12 MAC Submissions
09 MU Submissions
01 SR submissions
04 submissions addressing TG issues
A list of the submissions is available in the agenda document available at:
Osama Aboul-Magd

11. 802.11ay Enhanced Throughout for Operation in License-Exempt Bands Above 45 GHz
First meeting May 2015
18 submissions were covered during the meeting covering areas related to:
Channel model
Usage model
Simulation scenario and evaluation methodology
Technologies
Significant progress is made in the development of specification framework document
Edward Au

12. 802.11az Next Generation Positioning
First meeting September 2015
Use case document completed and motioned.
Initiated the functional requirements document and approved accuracy/coverage and millimeteric wave positioning requirements.
Entertained SFD and Technical editor and SFD editor elections.
Jonathan Segev

13. 802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes
Initial Sponsor Ballot on draft 4.0 closed April 26, Results 147/21/ %
1838 comments received; all resolved
Recirculation Sponsor Ballot currently open, closes January 26, 2016
Dorothy Stanley 13

14. 802.11 NG60 Next Generation 60GHz Study Group
Became TGay
Edward Au 14

15. 802.11 NGP Next Generation Positioning Study Group
Became TGaz
Jonathan Segev 15

16. 802.11 LRLP Long Range Low Power Technical Interest Group
First met September 2015
Reviewed and Discussed 8 contributions
Updated output report to r6 (output report is formal output of this TIG)
Hoping to form study group March 2016
Tim Godfrey 16

17. 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC
Two presentations at January 2016 meeting
and 5G/IMT-2020 – Joseph Levy (Interdigital)
and 5G/IMT-2020 – Andrew Myles (Cisco)
Jim Lansford 17

18. Regulatory SC Reviewed items in process at the end of 2015 US EU
FCC DSRC decisions – Chairman’s letter to DoC, DoT and Congress
FCC trying to close on Globalstar TLPS
FCC implementation date pushed out to March 2016 EU
ETSI ERM TG11
ETSI TC BRAN
New challenges for 5 GHz band use
WRC-15 Outcomes
Other
Proposed changes to 802 regulatory
Rich Kennedy

19. Joe Levy (needs to be updated)
Architecture SC
Architecture work
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.
Joe Levy (needs to be updated) 19