1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-14-0179-00-0000 Title: 802.11 Liaison Report for 2014-11 Date Submitted: November 06, 2014 Contributed to IEEE 802.21 on November 06, 2014 Authors or Source(s): Clint Chaplin, 802.11 Liaison (Samsung) Abstract: This document is the liaison report on 802.11

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3. 802.11ah – Sub-1GHz –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) 802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) –Working towards 802.11-2015 802.11 Groups

4. 802.11 -2016 IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline MAC & PHY Sponsor Ballot MAC Study groups Published Standard WG Letter Ballot 802.11ac VHT 5GHz TG without Approved draft Discussion Topics Published Amendment 802.11af TVWS 802.11ai FILS 802.11 ah < 1Ghz WNG 802.11ae QoS Mgt Frames 802.11ad VHT 60 GHz 802.11AQ PAD 802.11aj CMMW 802.11AK GLK 802.11ax HEW NG60 802.11aa Video Transport 802.11 -2012 4 Adrian Stephens, Intel Corporation Nov 2014Slide 4

5. Yongho Seok 802.11 TGah Less than 1GHz Second Initial WG Ballot LB203 on draft 2.0 closed July 5, 2014. Results 204/43/24 82.59% Passed! Received 1214 comments; all resolved First Recirculation WG Ballot LB205 on draft 3.0 closed October 25, 2014. Results 234/27/17 89.66% Received 506 comments Working on resolving the comments; 111 addressed, 395 to go.

6. Hiroshi Mano 802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication Second Initial WG Ballot LB201 on draft 2.0 closed May 7, 2014. Results 195/34/28 85.15% Passed! Received 1158 comments; all resolved First Recirculation WG Ballot LB204 on draft 3.0 closed October 14, 2014. Results 214/28/28 88.43% Received 999 comments Working on resolving comments; 455 comments resolved so far

7. Xiaoming PENG 802.11 TGaj China MM-Wave Group has had three Comment Collections on drafts this year; all drafts address 60GHz. Resolving comments from the three Comment Collections Also working on 45GHz; many presentations on feasability Put out a call for proposals for 45GHz; call for proposals extended until May 2015

8. Donald Eastlake 802.11 TGak General Link Still continuing to resolve comments from the Comment Collection period 6% remain to be resolved Hoping to go out to letter ballot with draft 1.0 after January meeting

9. Stephen McCann 802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery Approved modified text and instructed editor to create D0.02 Comment Collection on D0.02 carried out Resolved all comments from the Comment Collection; asked editor to prepare an updated draft 0.04 Looking to generate a Draft 1.0 in January for letter ballot

10. Osama Aboul-Magd 802.11ax High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) 40 submissions were covered during July. 52 submissions covered in September. 35 submissions covered in November. Vice chairs elected –Simone Merlin (Qualcomm) –Ron Porat (Broadcom) Setting up various ad-hoc groups –MAC –PHY –Multiuser –Spatial Reuse Working on Task Group documents –Evaluation Methodology –Simulation Scenarios –Channel Model –Functional Requirements

11. Dorothy Stanley 802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes Second Recirculation WG Ballot LB202 on draft 3.0 closed June 23, 2014. Results 219/24/19 90.12% Received 779 comments Working on resolving the comments; ~175 comments left to resolve. Hoping to go out for recirculation after January 2015 meeting

12. Edward Au 802.11 NG60 Next Generation 60GHz Study Group First meeting in September Elected Chair and Secretary. Working on PAR and CSD

13. Clint Chaplin 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC One presentation at July 2014 meeting –Security and Privacy Enhancements for 802.11 (https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0888-00-0wng-security- and-privacy-enhancements-for-802-11.pptx) – Paul Lambert (Marvell)https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0888-00-0wng-security- and-privacy-enhancements-for-802-11.pptx Five presentations at September 2014 meeting –Next Generation Positioning Beyond Indoor Navigation (14/1193r1) - Jonathan Segev and Carlos Aldana –Scalable Location (14/1235r0) – Brian Hart –Direction Finding Positioning for 802.11 (14/1263r0) – James Wang –Lifecycle Management (14/1188r2) – Guido Hertz –Making Wi-Fi faster: the “Buffer bloat” issue (14/1265) – Dave Täht Two presentations at November 2014 meeting –WLAN Transmission Scheme With Iteratively-Decoded OFDM Multi- Symbols (11-14-1376-02-0wng-wlan-transmission-scheme-with- iteratively-decoded-ofdm-multi-symbols.pptx) – Maciej Krasicki –Next Generation Positioning Overview and Challenges (11-14-1464-01- 0wng-ng-positioning-overview-and-chalanges.pptx) - Jonathan Segev

14. Rich Kennedy Regulatory SC Regulatory summaries –Asia –EU –North America DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team update

15. Mark Hamilton Architecture SC Continuing to work on modifications of the architecture as presented in the standard. Also working with other entities to coordinate architectures.