1. Session #63 802.16 NRR Ad Hoc Committee Report
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2. Session #63 NRR Working Group Ad Hoc Committee Report September 3, 2009

3. NRR WG Ad Hoc Committee
In November 2008, the Working Group has approved the creation of a WG Ad Hoc Committee with the objective of promoting discussion on robustness and reliability
Committee reflector and document upload area
Study the potential interest of the WG to launch a new standardization activity for a highly-reliable and highly-robust system

4. NRR objectives and plan
Following the session 62 closing plenary, the WG Ad Hoc Committee aims at working on draft PAR and top level technical approaches
Planned activities till session #64
No meetings are planned at the Interim sessions #63 and #63.5
Technical discussions on the reflector
Conference call the 17 of September 2009
Conference call the 15 of October 2009

5. NRR Report
Discussion is currently underway on the reflector for elaborating the Baseline for a potential project
32 s have been sent out in August to elaborate the Baseline
The Baseline is intended to be finalized the 17th of September 2009
After the September telecon, NRR will start drafting the PAR
Current status of the Baseline (not finalized)
Modification of the OFDMA PHY, MAC and management interfaces
Addressing both fixed and mobile systems
Support for Mobile BS and Mobile RS
Provision of resilience capabilities
Possibility of operation without infrastructure (under discussion)
Support for spectrum flexibility below 6GHz