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IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access Working Group <http://ieee802.org/16>
Title
IEEE 802.16 Working Group Minutes of Session #88
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2013-11-18
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IEEE 802.16 Session #88 (Hyatt Regency, Dallas Texas)
Abstract
IEEE 802.16 Session #88 Minutes
Purpose
To record the minutes of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group Opening and Closing Plenary
meetings at Session #88. For approval at Session #89
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<http://standards.ieee.org/guides/bylaws/sect6-7.html#6> and
<http://standards.ieee.org/guides/opman/sect6.html#6.3>.
Further information is located at <http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-material.html> and
<http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat>.
This document does not represent the agreed views of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group or any of its subgroups. It
represents only the views of the participants listed in the “Source(s)” field above. It is offered as a basis for
discussion. It is not binding on the contributor(s), who reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material
contained herein.
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IEEE 802.16 Working Group Minutes of Session #88
IEEE 802.16 Working Group
Hyatt Regency Dallas
Dallas, TX
November 11 – 14, 2013
IEEE 802.16 Session #88 Opening Plenary Meeting
Monday November 11, 2013, 13:40 – 15:21 hours.
Opening
The Working Group (WG) meeting was called to order by Roger Marks at 13:40 hours local time. He
welcomed the Working Group to Dallas for Session #88 of the IEEE 802.16 WG, whereupon he turned to the
Working Group agenda. He noted the spreadsheet format shows the agenda for each group as a separate tab
from the same spreadsheet.
Dr. Roger Marks introduced himself as the Chair of the IEEE 802.16 Working Group (the “WG”) and stated his
affiliation with EthAirNet Associates. Dr. Harry Bims, affiliated with Bims Laboratories, introduced himself
as WG Vice Chair and WG Secretary.
Roger noted the new DVD of 802 standards is available.
Roger introduced Katherine Bennett, the staff liaison for the 802.16 Working Group.
The WG Chair noted the online location of the IEEE 802.16 webpage <http://wirelessman.org>, where official
information about the IEEE 802.16 Working Group can be found, and the online location where the Session #88
meeting schedule and plans for the week are presented.
Roger noted the location of the agendas for the opening and closing plenary, and presented an overview of the
Opening Plenary agenda.
Roger explained how to access Working Group documents using the local server online documents system
through the local link. Roger recommended to the WG to use the http://docii.wirelessman.org to view the
document assignments within the Working Group.
Membership and Voting
The Working Group Chair explained that at the beginning of this Session there were 20 Members
(<http://ieee802.org/16/members.html>) of the Working Group. Potential Members
(<http://ieee802.org/16/members_pot.html>) were also noted. Members of the WG were advised that they
should have a voting token (a rectangle that says “M.16”) appearing on their registration badge.
Attendance
The attendees were informed that acquiring and retaining Membership in the Working Group depends on
logging attendance correctly in the IEEE Automated Meeting Attendance Tool (“IMAT”). The WG Chair
demonstrated the method of registering in the IMAG system by following the link
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<http://attendance.wirelessman.org>. The attendance webpage contains an “Affiliation” field where each
attendee is expected to designate their Affiliation per IEEE-SA affiliation disclosure requirements (see reference
<http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html>).
Attendees were advised that they must record at least 75% of the possible credit hours in the IMAT attendance
system in order to ensure “Participation” status for the session. Attendees were further advised that for this
session, there are 28 hours worth of meetings, so 21 hours of attendance are required to reach 75%.
The attendees were informed that in order to register attendance for the meetings it is required to access the
online attendance system using the provided wireless network.
Opening Plenary Agenda and Minutes
The WG Chair reviewed the IEEE 802.16 Session #88 Opening Plenary Agenda, which was available at
<http://www.wirelessman.org/meetings/mtg88/index.html>. The Chair requested comments from the
Working Group regarding the agenda. None were received. The agenda was approved without objection
from the group at 13:50 h.
The minutes of Session #86 were presented to the group for comments. None were received.
Motion (13:53 h): “To approve the Minutes of Session #86 (Document IEEE 802.16-13-0138-00).”
Moved by David Castelow, seconded by Jaesun Cha.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion was approved by unanimous consent without objection.
Working Group Chair’s Administrative Report
The WG Chair displayed and presented Document IEEE 802.16-12-0573-00-Gdoc, the Chair’s IEEE 802.16
Administrative Report.
The WG Chair explained legal and administrative information regarding IEEE 802.16 for Disclosure of
Affiliation, the Ethics policy, Patents, and Copyrights. This information is also found at the link
<http://ieee802.org/16/legal.html>. The WG Chair presented each of the Patent Policy slides for Standards
Development Meetings, found at the link
<https://development.standards.ieee.org/myproject/Public/mytools/mob/slideset.pdf>. The WG Chair
instructed the WG Secretary to record in the minutes that slides 0-4 were shown, and that an opportunity was
given to the attendants to respond, and that no response was provided.
The WG Chair explained that contributions must conform to the contribution procedures described at the link
<http://WirelessMan.org/submit.html>, and that submittals that violate these procedures would not be accepted.
Roger also presented the location of the IEEE 802 Rules document, the role of the Working Group Chair, and
explained that any concerns should be brought to the immediate attention of the Working Group Chair.
Session Status Report
The WG Chair presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0177-01, the “IEEE 802.16 Session Status Report”.
There was no discussion.
Review of Prior Session Report
Roger presented the report of the prior session, which is posted online at the link
<http://ieee802.org/16/meetings/mtg86/report.html>. There was no discussion.
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Input Document Assignments
The WG Chair presented the input document assignments, and the need to possibly assign the unassigned
documents. There was no discussion.
Schedule for the Week
The WG Chair noted the timeslots for Working Group activities for the week. There was no discussion.
Ethernet 40th Celebration
Roger noted the upcoming Ethernet 40th Celebration to take place at the EVE1 timeslot, and the need for
attendees to arrive ten minutes early for seating prior to the start.
802 Tutorial
The WG Chair noted the 802 Tutorial planned for Tuesday evening starting at 6pm entitled “Wireless SDN in
Access and Backhaul”.
802 PARs
Roger noted there are several 802 PARs under consideration at this session as listed at the link
<http://ieee802.org/PARs.shtml>, and that the Working Group has the opportunity to respond to any or all of
them. The PPC was delegated the responsibility for creating and publishing any Working Group comments.
Subgroup Status
Project P802.16q Opening Report:
P802.16q Chair Harry Bims presented the meeting schedule times for the week, and mentioned that there are 5
input contributions. He also mentioned that the group would not need all four timeslots to discuss its input
contributions, and would be willing to relinquish a timeslot for use by the working group for another purpose.
Project P802.16r Opening Report:
Marks reviewed the P802.16r status on behalf of Project Chair Ching-Tarng Hsieh, who was expected later in
the day.
Project P802.16.3 Opening Report:
P802.16.3 Chair Roger Marks mentioned that there was a significant response to the Call for Contributions from
participants, presumably because there was no travel obligation to discuss contributions. However, there was a
significant fall off from interest to participation during the teleconference calls. He further answered a
requirements for membership question by saying that the membership policy has not been finalized, but that it is
his intention not to let the membership policy hinder participation. Roger further mentioned that P802.16.3
would not need all three of its meeting timeslots for this week.
Project Planning Committee (PPC) Opening Report:
PPC Acting Chair Harry Bims mentioned that there are no timeslots for PPC activities. If the group desires to
discuss any contributions to PPC this week, we will have to allocate a timeslot for that purpose.
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ITU-R Liaison Group Opening Report:
ITU-R Liaison Acting Chair Roger Marks reported that the ITU-R WP 5D met shortly before we met in Geneva.
Review Schedule for Updates
It was decided by the WG to re-assign a timeslot for 802.16r activities for ITU-R liaison activities, and to reassign two timeslots for 802.16.3 and 802.16q activities for PPC activities.
Review Document Assignments and Handling of Unassigned Documents
It was decided by the WG to assign several unassigned input documents to the PPC for review. It was also
agreed that the PPC would address any comments on PARs from other WGs.
Meeting Logistics and Reporting
Participants were asked to power off the projector at the end of each meeting day, and given the email address
IEEE @verilan.com to report projector failure or an early ending of the meeting day.
Future Sessions
The WG Chair presented the future 802.16 WG sessions.
The WG Chair mentioned that the terms for all current elected WG officers will expire following the next
plenary meeting, and that the WG must hold an election of WG chair and vice-chair to take place at Session #90
in Beijing. Advance notice was given that the WG Chair might request permission at the closing plenary to run
for another term.
AOB
None.
Adjournment
Without objection, the meeting was adjourned at 15:16 hours.
IEEE 802.16 Session #88 Closing Plenary Meeting
Thursday, November 14, 2013, 16:14 – 17:06 hours.
Opening
The WG Chair of the 802.16 WG called the meeting to order at 16:14 hours local time.
Closing Plenary Agenda
WG Chair Roger Marks reviewed the 802.16 Session #88 Closing Plenary agenda, posted online at
<http://www.wirelessman.org/meetings/mtg88/index.html>.
Roger asked the attendants if they had any questions concerning the agenda, and there was some discussion.
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The Working Group approved the Closing Plenary agenda without objection.
Patent Policy
Roger presented the patent policy slides, and asked if there were any comments relating to the patent policy.
There were non received.
IEEE 802 Issues:
There was some discussion about the scope of the PAR and 5C relative to the specification for PARs under
consideration from other groups.
Subgroup Reports
P802.16r Closing Report:
P802.16r Chair Ching-Tarng Hsieh presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0193, the “P802.16r Small Cell
Backhaul Closing Report – Session #88”.
Ching-Tarng presented the summary of meeting sessions, the input contributions summary, the P802.16r Chair’s
summary of discussions, and documents recommended for Plenary Approval.
Motion (16:38 h): “To approve the Proposed P802.16r Call for Contributions towards Session #89 (802.1613-0194-01-000r)”
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh, seconded by David Castelow.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion was approved by unanimous consent without objection.
PPC Closing Report:
The PPC Acting Chair presented the meeting schedule, the activities for the week, the input contributions, the
output contributions, and the responses from P802 and P802.22 to PPC comments on their PARs under
consideration. There was some discussion about the responses.
Straw poll: Should the WG Chair vote yes on the P802.22 PAR Revision?”
The polling result was Yes – 0, No – 3.
OmniRAN SG Summary:
Roger reported on OmniRAN discussions about the creation of a PAR request, the desire of the SG to form a
task group under 802.1, and the need to extend the Study Group by an additional four months while waiting for
NesCom approval.
ITU-R Liaison Group Closing Report:
ITU-R Liaison Group Acting Chair Roger Marks gave an oral report of the agenda accomplishments for the
Liaison Group. He further discussed that with respect to the Meeting “Y” Notification, the ITU would be
informed that there is no intention of the WG to provide revisions to our standards document as represented in
IMT-Advanced.
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Motion (17:18 h): “To approve the IEEE 802.18-13-0115-01, subject to editorial finalization, and forward per
subclause 8.2.2 of the IEEE 802 Operations Manual”.
Moved by Jaesun Cha, seconded by Ching-Tarng Hsieh.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion was approved by unanimous consent without objection.
P802.16q Closing Report:
P802.16q Chair Harry Bims presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0190-00-Gdoc, the “Session #88 – P802.16q
Closing Plenary Report”.
Harry presented the P802.16q summary of activities for the week, and proposed actions following Session #88,
including Revision 3 updates to the AWD document.
Harry presented Document IEEE 802.16-13-0191-01-000q, the “Call for Contributions” on the SRD and AWD
towards Session #89.
There was some discussion about the Call for Contributions and it was agreed that Roger will make an editorial
finalization to the document to be uploaded by the P802.16q Chair that would include instructions for how to
submit comments using a Commentary database to be created by Roger.
Motion (17:32 h): “To approve the Call for Contributions toward P802.16q Development at Session #89”
including instructions for optionally submitting comments on both documents in Commentary format.
Moved by Harry Bims, seconded by Eunkyung Kim.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion was approved by unanimous consent without objection.
P802.16.3 Closing Report:
P802.16.3 Acting Chair Roger Marks gave an oral report of the agenda accomplishments for the project.
Roger mentioned the discussion of Contribution Document 0160 and Contribution Document 0187. A
teleconference has been scheduled for December 12, at 15:00 UTC. P802.16.3 further created Document
0192, which is a Call for Contributions toward the December 12 teleconference and Session #89.
Treasurer’s Report
Marks presented Godfrey’s Treasurer’s Report IEEE 802.16-13-0179, which reported to the group that a bill for
$129 has been paid for an annual subscription to the “join.me” teleconference service that the group has been
using.
Future Sessions
The WG Chair noted the upcoming sessions currently scheduled. It was noted that there is a need for followup
discussions to the Wireless SDN Tutorial on Tuesday evening of this week. For Session #89, the following
timeslot requirements were agreed upon:
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Opening Plenary, 1/2 slot for Monday in the AM2 timeslot
Closing Plenary, 1 slot for Thursday in the PM1 timeslot
P802.16q, 3 slots
PPC, 1 slot
ITU-R Liaison, 0 slots
P802.16r, 3 slots
P802.16.3, 3 slots, AM1
SDN Tutorial followup, 1 slot
Elections in March 2014
It was discussed that the Chair and Vice-Chair positions terminate at the end of the March Plenary.
Motion (17:52 h):
2014 Plenary”.
“To authorize Roger Marks to run for Chair of the 802.16 Working Group at the March
Moved by Ching-Tarng Hsieh, seconded by Jaesun Cha.
Discussion: There was none.
The motion passed with vote totals as follows: Yes – 5, No – 0, Abstain - 1
Adjournment
Motion (17:59 h):
“To adjorn”.
The Working Group agreed to adjourn without objection.
The meeting was adjourned at 17:59 h.
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The IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards
IEEE 802.16 Members
Updated: 2013-11-17 accounting for Session #88.
Ex-officio Members
Per the IEEE 802 WORKING GROUP POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, "Members of the sponsor are ex officio members
of all WGs." Per the IEEE 802 Operations Manual, "the Sponsor" means the IEEE 802 Executive Committee (EC).
Name\Family
Bims
Castelow
Cha
Name\Given
Harry
David
Jaesun
Godfrey
Tim
Affiliation
Bims Laboratories
Airspan Networks Inc.
Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Instititute (ETRI)
Electric Power Research Institute
Hsieh
Kanzaki
Ching-Tarng
Hajime
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Hitachi, Ltd.
Kiernan
Brian
unaffiliated
Kim
Eunkyung
Kim
Seokki
Marks
Park
Roger
Jisoo
Zhou
Mingtuo
Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Institute (ETRI)
Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Instititute (ETRI)
EthAirNet Associates
Electronics and Telecommunications Research
Instititute (ETRI)
National Institute of Information and
Communications Technology (NICT)
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City
Menlo Park
Uxbridge
Daejeon
State/Province
CA
Country/Admin
USA
UK
Korea
Overland
Park
Hsinchu
Kokubunjishi
King of
Prussia
Daejeon
KS
USA
Tokyo
Taiwan
Japan
PA
USA
Daejeon
Korea
Daejeon
Daejeon
Korea
Denver
Daejeon
CO
USA
Korea
Singapore
Singapore