Liaison Report

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Project IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title
802.11n liaison report to Working Group
802.15 Date Submitted 14 May 2004 Source
Jason Ellis Company Staccato
Communications Address 5893 Oberlin Dr., San
Diego, CA, USA Voice(858) 812 1025, FAX
[phone],E-Mailjason_at_staccatocommunicati
ons.com Re Abstract Liaison report which
happens to be the 11n closing report slide-set
many thanks ? Purpose To inform the WG on
progress in 802.11n during the May 2004
session Notice This document has been prepared
to assist the IEEE P802.15. It is offered as a
basis for discussion and is not binding on the
contributing individual(s) or organization(s).
The material in this document is subject to
change in form and content after further study.
The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add,
amend or withdraw material contained
herein. Release The contributor acknowledges and
accepts that this contribution becomes the
property of IEEE and may be made publicly
available by P802.15.
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May 04 Plans Accomplishments

• Complete and adopt CCs
• Complete and adopt Usage Models
• Establish firm dates for
• Posting letter of intent
• Posting technical proposals to server
• Start presentations
• Complete Call for Proposals letter
• Review project time line
• Prepare for election of Tech Ed V. Chair
• Receive technical presentations
• Disbanded FRCC subcommittee
• Releasing Call for Proposals Monday May 17

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802.11n Document Summary - May

• Primary Documents
• Functional Requirements 03-0813 r12
• Comparison Criteria 03-0814 r30
• Usage Models 03-0802 r23
• Channel Models 03-0940 r04
• Call for Proposals Letter 03-0858 r06
• Other Helpful Documents
• Selection Procedure 03-0665 r09
• FRCC Cumulative minutes
  03-0815 r14
• FRCC Comments resol spreadsheet 04-0343 r11
  
• TGn Schedule 04-0381 r02
• Selection Procedure Minutes
  03-0740 r02
• May Minutes 04-0496 r00

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Time line
IEEE 802 Sessions Open Monday Sep 13
Monday May 17, 2004
No later than midnight GMT -5 Friday Aug 13
No later than midnight GMT -5 Friday June 18
At least 30 days
80 days
50 days
30 days
30 days

• Event 3
• Documents posted on IEEE server
• Technical Proposal
• CC Compliance Report
• FR Compliance Report

Event 1 Issue call for proposals
Event 2 Intent to present Full or Partial
proposal notification submitted
Event 4 All? Proposals Presented in TGn Session
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Posted Technical Presentations
- Presentations heard in May

• MIMO Ant OFDM Solutions for Enhanced
  PHY Alexandre Dias 04-0229r0
• 20ms Effective Preamble MIMO OFDM Seigo
  Nakao 04-0249r1
• PCCC Turbo Codes for 802.11n Bart Van
  Poucke 04-0256r0
• Number of MIMO Multiplex for 11n Standards
  Yusuke Asai 04-0259r0
• Limitation on Range Extension using Multiple
  Antennas Heejung Yu 04-0279r0
• LDPC vs. Convolutional Codes Perf Complexity
  Comparison Alexsandar Purkovic 04-0337r0
• Generalized Puncturing to eliminate pad
  bits Stephan ten Brink 04-0298r0
• MIMO Mode Table for MIMO-OFDM Stephan ten
  Brink 04-0553r0
• Turbo Codes for 802.11n Brian Edmonston for
  Marie-Helene Hamon 04-0243r2
• Field Measurements of 2 x 2 MIMO
  Communications Babak Daneshrad 04-0263r0
• Maximizing MAC Throughputs by Dynamic RTS-CTS
  Threshold Woo-Yong Choi 04-0312r0

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Plans for July

• Status of Call for Proposals
• Technical Presentations
• Overall TGn timeline
• .19 liaison planning (joint meeting)
• .21 liaison planning (joint meeting)
• Regulatory issues discussion with .18
• TGn organization/officer planning