IEEE 802 Wireless Coexistence Study Group Tuesday Meeting

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IEEE 802 Wireless Coexistence Study GroupTuesday
Meeting
Jim Lansford Chair, IEEE 802 Coexistence Study
Group Jim.Lansford_at_mobilian.com (405)
377-6170 Tim Blaney Secretary/Editor Timb_at_mobilia
n.com [phone]
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Agenda for Tuesday AM Meeting

• Background
• Review of Statement of Purpose
• Review of activities to date
• Objectives for meeting
• Mission statement
• Organizational issues
• Membership/voting issues
• Engagement
• Output
• TAG or something else?

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Background

• 802.15 has TG2 coexistence group
• 802.11b and Bluetooth(TG1) coexistence
• 5GSG formed to investigate single global 5GHz
  standard
• Coexistence issues between HL2 and 11a
• BWA in unlicensed bands uses same spectrum as WLAN

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Statement of Purpose

• Purpose of the Study Group
• Define the functional charter of this new group
  to best address the wireless coexistence issues.
• Recommend an organization to best accomplish (New
  WG, Joint TG, TAG, etc)
• Goal is to have a group that can review and make
  coexistence recommendations to ExComm on current
  or proposed IEEE standards in unlicensed bands
• Similar in concept to FCC OET, which makes
  recommendations to the commissioners

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Current Plans

• Keep 802.15 TG2 unchanged so they can continue
  working on their specific tasks at hand.
• Keep 802.11 5GSG unchanged so they can continue
  working on their specific tasks at hand.
• Keep 802.16 unchanged.
• This SG is only addressing new standards or
  existing standards not covered by a current WG/TG
• This TAG would not try to develop a recommended
  practice document
• A recommended practice document would require a
  separate PAR

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Update of Activities

• 2 conference calls held
• Good feedback
• TAG proposal supported
• Membership and voting rules uncertain
• Fundamental question is whether the role of this
  group as defined by the attendees is consistent
  with a TAG or some other entity
• Formal mission statement needed

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Goals for this week

• Resolve outstanding issues
• Mission statement
• Membership/voting
• Engagement
• Ratification of results
• Does the SG propose a TAG or something else
• Rules review
• Determine if rules change will be needed
• Present to ExComm on Friday
• Meetings scheduled for this week
• Tuesday 8-10AM (Columbia)
• Thursday 630-930PM (Salon A)
• Extension of SG will be needed to resolve
  outstanding issues
• Plan Close on a proposal and ask for TAG
  formation at Nov plenary

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Mission Statement

• A proposal
• The Coexistence Technical Advisory Group studies
  the coexistence issues between wireless standards
  in the unlicensed frequency bands and makes
  recommendations to the IEEE 802 Executive
  Committee.

Discussion This a vanilla statementcomments/sugg
estions?
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Membership/voting

• Some proposals
• Any 11/15/16 voter, OR
• Adhere to existing WG rules, OR
• Appointed delegates from 11/15/16

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Engagement

• Decide on engagement who asks for an opinion?
• 802 Chair, AND
• Any 11/15/16 chair?
• When to engage?
• During PAR review by SEC
• When draft submitted

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Ratification

• Ratification of recommendations
• Internal vote of TAG, AND/OR
• By 11/15/16 WG

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So is this really a TAG?

• Rules

A TAG is almost a working group
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Summary

• If this is not a TAG, then we likely need a rules
  change
• Discussions from this meeting will be rolled into
  a summary presentation Thursday evening before
  submission to ExCom on Friday