1. IEEE 802.21 MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER DCN: 21-10-0234-00-0000 Title: 802.11 Liaison Report for 2010-11 Date Submitted: November 11, 2010 Contributed to IEEE 802.21 on November 11, 2010 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. 802.11mb – New Maintenance group (compilation of all approved amendments) –Currently finishing changes that could not be completed in time for 802.11-2007 802.11u – Interworking with External Networks –MAC changes to accommodate, among others, 802.21; relies on 11k, 11r; scope agreement with 11v 802.11v – Wireless Network Management –Management protocol additions; AP-AP negotiations; load balancing; access controls 802.11z – Direct Link Setup –Enabling Direct Link with legacy APs 802.11aa - Video Transport Streaming –Additions to support video 802.11ac – Very High Throughput <6GHz –Successor to 802.11n at frequencies less than 6GHz 802.11ad – Very High Throughput 60GHz –Successor to 802.11n at 60GHz 802.11ae – QoS MAN –QoS of Management frames 802.11af – TVWS –TV White Space 802.11ah – Sub-1GHz –Sub-1GHz Operation 802.11 Groups

4. Dorothy Stanley 802.11 TGmb 802.11 Accumulated Maintenance Changes Fourth Recirculation WG ballot on IEEE 802.11mb D5.0 closed August 19, 2010. Results: 172/15/25 91.98% 16 comments received: 9 technical, 7 editorial Resolved all comments Initial Sponsor Ballot on IEEE 802.11mb D6.0 closed November 5, 2010. Results: 122/18/1/9 87.14% 454 comments received: 371 technical, 76 editorial, 7 general Resolved ~½ of the comments Expecting to go out for First Recirculation Sponsor ballot January 2011

5. Theodorus (Dee) Denteneer 802.11 TGs Mesh Networking Fourth Recirculation WG Ballot LB166 on draft 7.0 closed August 13, 2010. Results 167/9/34 94.89% 11 comments received: 3 technical, 8 editorial Resolved all comments Initial Sponsor Ballot on IEEE 802.11s D7.0 closed November 1, 2010. Results: 123/6/0/10 95.35% 307 comments received: 174 technical, 118 editorial, 15 general Resolving comments TGs ran an experiment that let the IEEE professional editor edit the draft during the sponsor ballot process, rather than after approval. Draft 7.02 is the result of that editing. TGs doesn’t consider the experiment a success; the IEEE editor had the draft too long before giving it back. Expecting to go out for First Recirculation Sponsor ballot December 2010

6. Stephen McCann 802.11 TGu InterWorking with External Networks Fourth Sponsor ballot on draft 11.0 closed August 13, 2010. Results are 124/5/0/14 96.12%. Received 18 comments, 13 technical, 4 editorial, 1 general and the CRC has addressed the comments. 1 MIH specific comment: 1 accepted. Fifth Sponsor ballot on draft 12.0 closed September 12, 2010. Results are 127/2/0/14 98.45%. Received 0 comments. Initial implementer found a problem with conflicting ANA numbers with 802.11v. Several values had to be updated, forcing a recirculation of the changed draft. Will go out for sixth Sponsor Ballot on draft 13.0 Thursday Will ask ExCom Friday for conditional approval to publish

7. Dorothy Stanley 802.11 TGv Wireless Network Management Conditional approval from 802 ExCom to go to Standards Board for final approval granted Sixth Sponsor ballot on draft 13.0 closed July 28, 2010. Results were 138/3/0/7 97.87% 802.11v received 1668 comments, 1096 technical, 2 general, and 570 editorial, and the BRC has addressed all the comments. Seventh Sponsor ballot on draft 14.0 closed August 25, 2010. Results were 140/3/0/7 97.90% 802.11v received 1099 comments, 1092 technical, 4 general, and 3 editorial, and the BRC has addressed all the comments. Eighth Sponsor ballot on draft 15.0 closed September 30, 2010. Results were 140/3/0/7 97.90% 802.11v received 1361 comments, 1348 technical, 5 general, and 8 editorial, and the BRC has addressed all the comments. Ninth Sponsor ballot on draft 15.0 closed October 18, 2010. Results were 141/3/0/7 97.92% 802.11v received 1355 comments, 1344 technical, 6 general, and 5 editorial, and the BRC has addressed all the comments. Initial implementer found a problem with conflicting ANA numbers with 802.11u. Several values had to be updated, forcing a recirculation of the changed draft. Have gone out for tenth Sponsor Ballot on draft 16.0 ending November 15

8. Menzo Wentink 802.11 TGz Extensions to Direct Link Setup Conditional approval from 802 ExCom to go to Standards Board for final approval granted Fifth Sponsor ballot on draft 11.0 closed August 4, 2010. Results are 123/6/0/8 95.35%. 802.11z received 12 comments; 8 technical, 4 general, and 0 editorial, and the BRC resolved all the comments. Sixth Sponsor ballot on draft 12.0 closed August 16, 2010. Results are 124/5/0/8 96.12%. 802.11z received 0 comments. Standards board approved 802.11z on September 30, and 802.11z was published on October 14.

9. Ganesh Venkatesan 802.11 TGaa 802.11 Video Transport Streams The BRC has resolved all but 128 comments from the last ballot. –13 unique comments, 115 duplicates Will continue comment resolution today Planning on going out for recirculation after this meeting. Joint Meeting with 802.1AVB –Overview of changes to 802.11 to support 802.1Qat –Discussion on future 802.1AVB topics Having an 802.11 BSS act like first class 802.1Q bridges (so they can participate in the dynamic reconfiguration and management protocols) QoS Maintenance Reports Making sure 802.11 APs and STAs know the difference between "multicast" and "group address" as conditions for routing action... so that a stream that has a DA with the "I/G" bit set does NOT necessarily result in a broadcast transmission (with all the attendant wastage of bandwidth). –MaxRes for 802.11

10. Osama Aboul-Magd 802.11 TGac Very High Throughput <6GHz September 2010 –Continued with the Ad Hoc group meetings. Ad Hoc group reports are available at: PHY Ad Hoc report  11-10-1097r3 MU-MIMO Ad Hoc report  11-10-1102r3 Coexistence Ad Hoc report  11-10-1122r3 MAC Ad Hoc Ad Hoc report . 11-10-1100r3 –Motions passed to update the TG Specification Framework in areas related to: MAC: AID Selection, DL MU-MIMO TXOP Sharing, A-MPDU Delimiter, Max MPDU/A-MPDU Sizes PHY: Phase rotation, Spectral mask, BCC coding rates, NDP sounding, 160 MHz transmission flow, support for channelization in China Coexistence: Medium access for wider BW. MU-MIMO: Sounding frame exchange protocol and formats –For a complete set of motions, please refer to 10/1016r4 Minutes are available in 10/0928r0 –The current approved revision of the specification Framework is 09/0992rxx November 2010 –Continued with the Ad Hoc group meetings. Ad Hoc group reports are available at: PHY Ad Hoc report  11-10-1306 MU-MIMO Ad Hoc report  11-10-1308 Coexistence Ad Hoc report  11-10-1297 MAC Ad Hoc Ad Hoc report . 11-10-1362 –Motions passed to update the TG Specification Framework in areas related to: MAC: AID Selection, DL MU-MIMO TXOP Sharing, A-MPDU Delimiter, Max MPDU/A-MPDU Sizes PHY: Phase rotation, Spectral mask, BCC coding rates, NDP sounding, 160 MHz transmission flow, support for channelization in China Coexistence: Medium access for wider BW. MU-MIMO: Sounding frame exchange protocol and formats –For a complete set of motions, please refer to 10/1214 –The current approved revision of the specification Framework is 09/0992rxx –Submission 11-10-1361 includes a proposed TGac Draft Amendment Estimated to have draft ready for first WG ballot in November 2010

11. Eldad Perahia 802.11 TGad Very High Throughput 60GHz September 2010 –Continued to address comments from the internal TG review of D0.1 Received 513 comments, 282 were technical Resolved all of the comments –TG approved Coexistence Assurance document, 10/1025r3 –Will be going out for initial WG ballot after this meeting –Still working on response to an ITU-R 60GHz liaison request November 2010 –First Initial WG Ballot LB168 on draft 1.0 closed October 24, 2010. Results 163/24/26 87.17% –802.11ad received 1187 comments, 670 technical and 517 editorial, and the BRC has addressed ~100 comments. –Expecting to go out for First Recirculation WG ballot May 2011 –China WPAN liaison report asking for TGad to consider 45-50 GHz in China

12. Michael Montemurro 802.11 TGae QoS MAN September 2010 –Resolved the comments arising from the internal review –Generating a Draft 1.0 based on the comment resolutions and other proposals –Will go out for initial WG ballot after the meeting November 2010 –First Initial WG Ballot LB169 on draft 1.0 closed October 27, 2010. Results 134/32/40 80.72% –802.11ae received 461 comments, 309 technical and 152 editorial, and the BRC is addressing the comments. –Expecting to go out for First Recirculation WG ballot January 2011

13. Rich Kennedy 802.11 TGaf TV White Space September 2010 –Approved Draft d0.05 [d0.04 with editorial changes] –Approved 11-10/595r9 as the comment spreadsheet –Completed the discussion of the 150 comments –Instructed the Editor to create speculative draft d0.06 –Planned for November and weekly teleconferences November 2010 –The group divided its work into two tracks for this week: Draft Cleanup and Regulatory –The Draft Cleanup group was reviewing and addressing two problems with draft d0.06. There are some comments with multiple, conflicting resolutions, which are being decided on, and there are some resolutions added into this preliminary draft that were not yet approved that are now being voted on or removed. –The regulatory track is reviewing the impact of the new FCC rules for the TVWS which were published on September 23rd and composing a petition to ask for changes. In addition, an Ofcom consultation on TVWS Geo-location Implementation was published on Tuesday which we are also now addressing. We are also restructuring the draft to move all regulatory domain driven elements to Annexes D and E. Estimate to go out to initial ballot January 2011

14. Dave Halaz 802.11 TGah Less than 1GHz September 2010 –Gained ExCom and Standards Board approval to form Task Group –Prepared for first Task Group meeting in November –Submissions were presented for: Use cases - 10/1044 Possible MAC changes - 10/1045 November 2010 –Met as Task Group for first time –Elected permanent officers Dave Halaz as chair Jae-Hyung Song as secretary Looking for editor –Put out a call for proposals Preliminary proposal due January Full text due March

15. Hiroshi Mano 802.11 FIA Fast Initial Authentication September 2010 –Worked on and approved a PAR and 5 Criteria within the Study group –Will ask the WG for approval on Friday November 2010 –Received comments on Par and 5C from 802.11 –Modified PAR and 5C based on feedback –Will ask EC on Friday for approval of PAR and 5C

16. Clint Chaplin 802.11 WNG Wireless Next Generation SC Two presentations at September 2010 meeting –Smart Grid and Key Lengths (11-10-0964-00-0wng-smart-grid-key- lengths.pptx) – Dave Halasz –'L-Cubed': LONGER Range, LOWER Data rate, LOW Energy Wi-Fi Opportunity (11-10-1120-00-0wng-l-cubed-longer-range-lower-data- rate-low-energy.pptx) – Bill Carney Three presentations at November 2010 meeting –'L-Cubed': LONGER Range, LOWER Data rate, LOW Energy Wi-Fi Update From September (11-10-1317-01-0wng-l-cubed-update- from-sep-2010.pptx) – Bill Carney –Digital RF Transceiver to Meet the Needs of Emerging Spectrum (11-10-1238-00-0wng-digital-rf-txrx.ppt) – Alex Reznik –Location Awareness (11-10-1239-02-0wng-location-awareness- discussion.ppt) – Jim Lansford

17. Andrew Myles JTC1/SC6 Ad-Hoc ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 September 2010 –Did not meet November 2010 –Developing two liaison statements to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC6 Refuting assertion that 802.11 is insecure Pointing out that WAPI has chosen protocol values that conflict with IEEE 802.11 assigned values, and urging relevant WAPI proponents to apply to 802.11 for numbers that do not conflict.

18. Rich Kennedy Regulatory Ad-Hoc September 2010 –Discussed regulatory summaries from North America and the EU The impending FCC TVWS rulings, the FCC 5 GHz rules changes update ERM TG11 - EN 300 328 revision 1.8.1 update status –Essential test suites being written –Next meeting is in October (conflicting with the Wi-Fi Alliance meeting) ETSI BRAN to begin revision of EN 301 893 –Issues considered critical at this time Should IEEE 802.11 involve itself in Wi-Fi Direct issue? Could lead to FCC redefinition of Software Defined Radio regulations November 2010 –We discussed the updates from North America and the EU, and focused on reviewing the new FCC rules for TVWS devices in FCC 10-174 and the Ofcom consultation received on Tuesday. The US updates focused on the new interim rules for devices operating in the 5 GHz DFS bands and the recent knowledge database publication clarifying the rules on software upgrade of previously certified devices.