1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-14-0028-00-0000 Title: 802.11 Liaison Report for 2014-01 Date Submitted: January 23, 2014 Contributed to IEEE 802.21 on January 23, 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. 802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz –Successor to 802.11n at frequencies less than 6GHz 802.11af – TVWS –TV White Space 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 802.11mc – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) –Working towards 802.11-2015 802.11 Groups

4. Slide 4 IEEE 802.11 Standards Pipeline - January 2014 PHY Sponsor Ballot MAC Study groups Published Standard WG Letter Ballot 802.11 -2012 802.11aa Video Transport 802.11ac VHT 5GHz TG without Approved draft Discussion Topics Published Amendment 802.11af TVWS 802.11ai FILS 802.11 ah WNG January 2014 802.11ae QoS Mgt Frames 802.11ad VHT 60 GHz PAD 802.11AQ 802.11aj 802.11-2015 GLK 802.11AK HEW Bruce Kraemer, MarvellSlide 4

5. Osama Aboul-Magd 802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz Published!

6. Rich Kennedy 802.11 TGaf TV White Space Approved by Standards board in December Due to be published soon

7. Dave Halasz (needs to be updated) 802.11 TGah Less than 1GHz First Initial WG Letter Ballot LB200 on draft 1.0 closed October 19, 2013. Results 144/54/18 72.73% Failed Received 1984 comments. Still addressing comments

8. Hiroshi Mano (needs to be updated) 802.11 TGai Fast Initial Authentication First Initial WG Ballot LB198 on draft 1.0 closed September 12, 2013. Results 147/51/22 74.24% Failed Received 1389 comments Still working to resolve comments: 677 resolved so far

9. Xiaoming PENG 802.11 TGaj China MM-Wave Proposal of RoF Relay Transmission Usage Model (11-14/014r0) Update on Opportunistic Transmissions in Multiple Alternative Channels in 802.11aj (NT) - 11-13/1293r3 Update on Spatial Sharing Mechanism in 802.11aj (NT) – 11-14/0009r1 Update on TGaj Complete Proposal Presentation (CP) 11-13/1301r2 TGaj Complete Proposal Text 11-13/1302r1 Motion to approve Complete Proposal and Text as the baseline proposal passed Large-Scale Characteristics of 45 GHz Based on Channel Measurement (11- 14/015r1) Reviewed the official timeline for TGaj in 11-13/0437r1

10. Donald Eastlake (needs to be updated) 802.11 TGak General Link Accomplishments Adopted the solution to the sub-setting problem in 11-13/526r3. Adopted a timeline. Received, discussed, and in some cases produced the following submissions: 13/0952, “Stacking Tags in LLC Media”, Norm Finn 13/1216, “Tag Solution – Proposal 2”, Mark Hamilton 13/0693, “Comparison of Receiver Subset Techniques”, Norm Finn 13/0562, “Sub-Setting”, Donald Eastlake 13/1453r0, “Testing 802.1Qbz consensus for LLC media”, Norm Finn 13/1458r0, “The use of 802.11 Timing Measurement with P802.1AS in the context of P802.11ak”, Kevin B. Stanton Met jointly with 802.1 Thursday morning. There were no objections to solution the tagging problem in 13/1216r0, either in 11ak or at the joint meeting. The minutes of this TGak meeting will be in 11-13/1463 and an annotated agenda is in 11-13/1271.

11. Stephen McCann (needs to be updated) 802.11 TGaq Pre-Association Discovery Technical presentations Architecture 11-13-0788r2Transaction Protocol Architecture 11-13-1403r0 Service discovery architecture 11-13-1091r3Protocol Architecture of 802.11aq Protocol 11-13-1415r0Service Discovery with Association 11-13-1396r3Frame Formats for PAM 11-13-1384r2 Service Transaction Protocol Requirements 11-13-1435r2Essential Requirements

12. Dorothy Stanley (needs to be updated) 802.11 TGmc 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes First Recirculation WG Letter Ballot LB199 on draft 2.0 closed October 23, 2013. Results 207/23/22 90.00% Received 497 comments Addressed ~180 comments Will incorporate 11ac and go to recirculation March 2014

13. Osama Aboul-Magd (needs o be updated) 802.11 High Efficiency Wireless (HEW) SG Yet another meeting with 40+ submissions: –Evaluation Methodologies, Simulation Scenarios, and Channel Models –MAC/PHY Technologies –PAR proposals Discussed the WFA feedback on prioritization of the usage cases and approved a liaison letter back to WFA. –https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1446-00-0hew- ieee-802-11-liaison-to-wfa-on-priritization-of-high-efficiency- wlan-hew-usage-scenarios.dochttps://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1446-00-0hew- ieee-802-11-liaison-to-wfa-on-priritization-of-high-efficiency- wlan-hew-usage-scenarios.doc –Started the discussion on the PAR. The SG agenda is available at: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1263-05- 0hew-hew-sg-november-2013-meeting-agenda.ppt https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1263-05- 0hew-hew-sg-november-2013-meeting-agenda.ppt

14. Clint Chaplin 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC Three presentations at January 2014 meeting –Requirements for Next Generation mmWave Systems (11-14-0114- 00-0wng-requirements-for-next-generation-mmwave.pptx) – James “Train Wreck” Gilb –Beyond 802.11ad – Ultra High Capacity and Throughput WLAN 2nd presentation (11-14-0136-00-0wng-beyond-802-11ad-a-ultra-high- capacity-and-tpt-wlan-2nd.pptx) – Gal Basson –The New Public Phone Service - Non Contact Ultra High Speed Contents Download (11-14-0131-01-0wng-the-new-public-phone- service-non-contact-ultra-high-speed-contents-download.pptx) - Masashi Shimizu

15. Andrew Myles (needs to be updated) JTC1/SC6 SC ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 IEEE 802 has 10 standards in process of ratification by ISO/IEC under PSDO The SC reviewed comments on 802.1X and 802.1AE during the ISO FDIS ballot Next SC6 meeting in Ottawa in Feb 2014 Agenda is currently light but more items expected until 3 Jan 2014; currently no discussion scheduled on: –Security topics; WAPI, TEPA-AC, TAAA, TISec –Other topics; UHT/EUHT, AP sharing, WLAN optimisation IEEE 802 will place several items on agenda –Updates of activity in 802.1/3/11 and maybe 802.15 –Responses to FDIS ballot comments on 802.1X/AE & 802.11 –Maybe report on outcome of discussions with Swiss NB on TEPA Bruce Kraemer was recommended as HoD –Likely to have four delegates (Kraemer, Harkins, Haasz, Carney)

16. Rich Kennedy (needs to be updated) Regulatory SC Discussed regulatory summaries for US, Canada and the EU Discussed FCC proceedings 13-49 and 13-84 –Opening the 5 GHz bands –RF Exposure DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team discussion –Detect and Avoid 11-13/994r0 (Cisco) –DSRC spectrum modification 11-13/1276r1 (Qualcomm) –Simulations in process; expect results early 2014 –Presentation on Harmful Interference 11-13/1309r0 Qualcomm DSRC coexistence presentation –Requires Part 90 changes to DSRC spectrum

17. Mark Hamilton (needs to be updated) Architecture SC Ad Hoc Monday: Collected comments on 802 O&A D1.7 –Sponsor Ballot recirc, closed Nov 12 http://www.ieee802.org/11/private/Draft_Standards/802architecture/802-rev-D1-7.pdf –802.11 comments: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1368-01-0arc-cc10-comments-on-802-o-a-d1-7.xlsx –Results: 142,8,7 (out of 174 voters; 90% returned; 94% yes; 134 comments) Comments are here: https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/13/ec-13-0067-00-00EC-802-sb2-comments.ods https://mentor.ieee.org/802-ec/dcn/13/ec-13-0067-00-00EC-802-sb2-comments.ods Elected Vice Chair: –Joseph Levy (InterDigital) IETF/802 coordination update – Dorothy Stanley –RFC4441: Reviewed rev5, which has 802.11’s comments included http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-rfc4441rev-05 Editorial comments only –CAPWAP: Draft not ready yet Will hold 802.11 Comment Collection ballot, when draft available Possibly need teleconference to collect comments, or at Jan F2F –PAWS: Behind CAPWAP, coming soon 802.1AC revision –Reminder of 802.11 material in this document, not written by 802.11: –http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2013/acrev-nfinn-new-802-11-text-0813-v02.pdfhttp://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2013/acrev-nfinn-new-802-11-text-0813-v02.pdf IEEE 1588 mapping to 802.11 –Work not started yet, expected to be in a couple months Architecture of APs/DS/Portals, and 802.1 concepts –One submissions this week: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1436-00-0arc-alternative-dual-band-ap-reference- model-graphic.pptxhttps://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/13/11-13-1436-00-0arc-alternative-dual-band-ap-reference- model-graphic.pptx –Working on Reference Model diagram updates