IEEE P802.11aa TG - MEETING UPDATE


Status of Project IEEE 802.11aa Task Group

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January 2012, Jacksonville, Florida

•        Result of Second re-Circulation Sponsor Ballot is 100% approval.  6 comments received which were resolved in Teleconference (12/0002r2)

•        Discussed and agreed four additional changes
(details in 12/0137r0)

•        Prepared Draft 9.0 incorporating these resolutions and changes and Approved a 10-day Sponsor Group Recirculation Ballot.

Closing Report is document 12/0135r0

November 2011, Atlanta, Georgia

•        Resolved all initial Sponsor Ballot comments (11/1382r3)

•        147 comments

•        Discussed 11/1417r1, “Ping-Pang Handoff”

•        Consensus that subject was not in PAR for 11aa

•        Passed Motion to approve a 15-day Sponsor Group Recirculation Ballot of D 7.0

•        Held a joint meeting with 801.AVB

Closing Report is in document 11/1578r0

September 2011 Okinawa, Japan

•        802.11aa Draft D6.0

–      Is in the second week of its first Sponsor Ballot

–      Sponsor Ballot 1 votes are due October 12, 2011

•         There were no discussions at this meeting

Plans:

·       Teleconferences (Oct 24, 27 and 31 – 1130-1330 Hrs EDT)

•        In the teleconferences and at the November 2011 meeting:

–      Work on resolutions of comments from SB 1

–      Complete resolutions and begin another SB

Closing Report is in document 11/1071r0

 

 

July 2011 San Francisco, California

Accomplishments

·       Resolved all LB179 comments.

·       Completed required documentation in order to obtain conditional approval from the EC to start sponsor ballot of P802.11aa.

·       Jointly met with 802.1AVB.

·       Graham Smith (DSP Group) has been elected as the new chair of Task Group aa.

 

Listened to the following submissions:

 

Document

Title

Author

1

11/920

LB179 GCR Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

2

11/923

LB179 OBSS Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

3

11/903

LB179/MEC Editorial Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

4

11/939

Resolution to CID #4112

Ganesh Venkatesan

5

11/941

LB179 SCS Comment Resolutions

Ganesh Venkatesan

6

11/1005

Sponsor Ballot Request

Ganesh Venkatesan

 

Comment Resolution Status – 100% done (Comment Resolution Spreadsheet is 11/0867r7)

 

 

 

Accept

Principle

Declined, Withdrawn

Total

Editor

31

16

16

63

GCR

3

12

2, 13

30

General

 

1

 

1

Interworking

1

 

 

1

OBSS

4

19

3

26

SCS

 

6

5

11

Total

39

54

39

132

Plans:

Teleconferences (Aug 15,  Sep 01, Oct 24, 27, 31, Nov 03 2011 – 1130-1330 Hrs EDT)

·       review and resolve letter ballot comments

After the July 2011 Meeting

·         Complete draft 6.0 recirculation and resolve resulting comments

·         Complete a clean draft 6.0 recirculation

·         Start sponsor ballot

Sept 2011 Meeting

·       Since the first sponsor ballot is targeted to complete on Oct 17. 2011 which is after the week of the September 2011 meeting, the plan is to meet in the September 2011 meeting and provide a status update on the progress made in completing the milestones planned between now and the September 2011, to the members.

Closing Report is in document 11/1071r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 11/1096r0

 


May 2011 Indian Wells, California

Accomplishments

·       Resolved all LB175 comments

·       Generated ANA requests for P802.11aa

 

Listened to the following submissions:

 

Document

Title

Author

1

11/549r1

HCCA TxOP Re-Org

Alex Ashley

2

11/675r0

SCS Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

3

11/620r1

GCR Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

4

11/768r0

11aa MIB Compilation Fixes

Alex Ashley

5

11/0771r2

Block ACK Setup for GCR

Naveen Kakani

6

11/0759r4

Proposed Solution to CID 3065

Graham Smith

7

11/741r4

Resolutions for CIDs 3038, 3039, 3040 and 3066

Graham Smith

8

11/764r3

Request for ANA assignments

Ganesh Venkatesan

 

Comment Resolution Status – 100% done (Comment Resolution Spreadsheet is 11/523r7)

 

 

 

Accept

Principle

Declined

Total

Editor

18

2

 

20

GCR

11

14

3

28

General

 

4

 

4

OBSS

7

25

 

32

SCS

4

3

2

9

Total

40

48

5

93

Plans:

Teleconferences (Mondays June 13, 20, 27; July 11 2011 – 1130-1230 Hrs EDT)

·       review comment resolutions

After the May 2011 Meeting

·         Start 4th recirculation LB with P802.11aa D5.0

·         Start MECs with P802.11aa D5.0

·         Form Sponsor Ballot Pool

July 2011 Meeting

·       Resolve 4th recirculation LB comments/MEC comments and generate Draft 6.0

·       Joint Meeting with 802.1AVB

Closing Report is in document 11/0799r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 11/0786r0

 


Mar 2011 Singapore

Accomplishments

–                 Resolved all LB173 comments

Listened to the following submissions:

 

Document

Title

Author

1

11/288r0, 11/289r0

SCS Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

2

11/300r0

GCR Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

3

11/324r2

Interworking Comment Resolutions

Ganesh Venkatesan

4

11/283r0

Editorial Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

5

11/360r0

OBSS-MLME Comment Resolutions

Alex Ashley

7

11/292r0, 11/293r2, 11/294r0

Support for GCR coded BA using Overlay FEC

Jochen Miroll

8

11/168r2

Joint Meeting with 802.1AVB

Ganesh Venkatesan

9

11/426r0

CID #2096 resolution

Qi Wang

 

Comment Resolution Status – 100% done (Comment Resolution Spreadsheet is 11/267r3)

 

 

 

Accept

Principle

Declined

Total

Editor

168

28

15

211

GCR

11

68

18

97

General

16

5

 

21

Interworking

4

4

2

10

OBSS

19

33

5

57

SCS

7

13

5

25

Total

225

151

45

421

Plans:

·                     Teleconferences (Mondays Mar 28, Apr 04, 11, 18, 2011 – 1130-1230 Hrs EDT)

·                     review comment resolutions

·                     May 2011 Meeting

o    Resolve third recirculation LB Comments

o    Complete Draft5.0 and start fourth recirculation

Closing Report is in document 11/0430r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 11/0431r0

 


Jan 2011 Los Angeles, California

Accomplishments

–                 Resolved all LB170 comments

Comment Resolution Status – 100% done (Comment Resolution Spreadsheet is 10/1441r9)

 

 

 

Accept

Principle

Declined

Total

Approved_Editor

12

3

2

17

Approved_GCR

45

83

22

150

Approved_General

 

 

1

1

Approved_Interworking

13

12

4

29

Approved_OBSS

29

48

21

98

Approved_SCS

11

18

3

32

Total

110

164

53

327

 

Plans:

·                     Teleconferences (Mondays Feb 14, 21, 28; Mar 07, 2011 – 1130-1230 Hrs EDT)

o    review comment resolutions

·                     Jan 2011 Meeting

o    Resolve second recirculation LB Comments

o    Complete Draft4.0 and start third recirculation

o    Joint Meeting with 802.1AVB

Closing Report is in document 11/0176r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 11/0137r0

 


Nov 2010 Dallas, Texas

Accomplishments

– Resolved all LB164 comments

– Joint meeting with 802.1AVB

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)

Open: How to deal with the STA-Bridge issue?

QoS Maintenance Reports

Action for 802.11aa: Specific details on 802.11k/v traffic stream statistic 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).

Action for 802.11aa: Overview of 802.11aa MRG (now known as GCR)

·               MaxRes for 802.11

 

Comment Resolution Status (Comment Resolution Spreadsheet is 10/1181r3)

Category

Total

Resolved

Resolved and adopted

Resolved and adopted in Dallas

Editorial

78 (145)

78

78

0

General

36 (41)

04

0

36

Interworking

33 (40)

33

33

0

MRG

303 (361)

14

14

289

OBSS

188 (283)

87

87

101

SCS

56 (111)

56

56

0

 

694 (981)

272 (39%)

268(38% done)

694 (100% done)

 * 287 comments are duplicates due to a processing error

Plans

·                     Teleconferences (Nov 29; Dec 13, 20; Jan 03,10 – 1130-1230 Hrs EDT)

·                     review comment resolutions

·                     Jan 2011 Meeting

o    Resolve  first recirculation LB comments

o    Generate and recirculate Draft 3.0

o    Harmonize with MAC Protection, OBSS and BAR extensions in TGac/TGad

Closing Report is in document 10/1365r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 10/1333r0

 


Sept 2010 Waikoloa, Hawaii

Accomplishments

–Started the meeting with a great demo of some 11aa features from Alex Ashley

–Focused on LB164 comment resolution

–Resolved and adopted resolutions for 190 comments in this meeting

–A modification to MRG that has the TG consensus has the potential to resolve a significant chunk of MRG comments.

Comment Resolution Status

Category

Total

Resolved

Resolved and adopted

Editorial

78(145)

78

78

General

36(41)

04

0

Interworking

33(40)

33

33

MRG

303(361)

14

14

OBSS

188(283)

87

87

SCS

56(111)

56

56

 

994* [756]

272 (39%)

268 (37%)

 * 287 comments are duplicates due to a processing error

Plans

·                     Teleconferences (Sep 27, Oct 11, Oct 18, Oct 25, Nov 1 and Nov 15, 2010 – 1100-1230 Hrs EDT)

·                     review comment resolutions

·                     Nov 2010 Meeting

o        Resolve pending LB164 comments

o        Generate and recirculate Draft 2.0

Closing Report is in document 10/1163r3

Meeting Minutes are in document 10/0881r0


July 2010 San Diego, California

TGaa Draft1.0 passed WG Letter Ballot with 78.3% approval.

Listened to the following proposals:

 

1

10/747r2

MRG for Mesh

Ivan Pustogarov

2

10/749r0

MRG IFS Correction

Ivan Pustogarov

3

10/761r0 or 10/768r0

Cancellation of aggregate Multicast feedback – Measurement Results

Jochen Miroll

4

10/788r3

Aggregate BlockAck – definition

Jochen Miroll

5

10/892r1

Replies to Q&A following 10/0788r2

Jochen Miroll

6

10/904r0

Leader-Based Simultaneous MRG Block Ack - normative text

Jochen Miroll

Accomplishments

·         Joint meeting with 802.1AVB

·         LB164 comment resolutions (~33% comments have resolutions)

·         Listened to technical presentations

Comment Resolution Status

Category

Total

Resolved

Resolved and adopted

Editorial

145

 

145

General

41

04

0

Interworking

40

40

0

MRG

361

 

0

OBSS

283

 

0

SCS

111

67

0

Others

13

 

0

 

994* [756]

14.68%

19.17% done

                                                    * 238 comments are duplicates due to a processing error

Plans

·                     Teleconferences (July 26, Aug 02, 09, 16 and 23, 2010 – 1100-1230 Hrs EDT)

·                     review comment resolutions

·                     Sep 2010 Meeting

o        Resolve pending LB164 comments

o        Generate and recirculate Draft 2.0

Closing Report is in document 10/0906r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 10/0881r0


May 2010 Beijing, China

Listened to the following proposals:

 

Document number

Title

Author(s)

1

10/541r1

Extending 11v QoS Traffic Capability

Alex Ashley

2

10/457r1

Recommendation for EDCA Overhead Factor

Graham Smith

3

10/484r3

Draft0.03 Internal Review Comment Resolutions

Ganesh Venkatesan

4

10/137r3

Interworking with 802.1Qat – 802.11 specific changes

Ganesh Venkatesan

5

10/458r0

MIB Style guide

Alex Ashley

6

10/606r0

Location for the DEI bit

Alex Ashley

 

 

 

 

Accomplishments

·         Discussed and resolved comments on Draft 0.03, Draft 0.04 and Draft 0.05

·         Approved comment resolutions and empowered editor to generate Draft 1.0

·         WG Letter Ballot to start once Draft 1.0 is ready

Plans

·                     Teleconferences (June 21, 2010 – 1100-1230 Hrs EDT)

·                     Discuss open issues

·                     July 2010 Meeting

o        Resolve Letter Ballot Comments

o        Joint meeting with 802.1AVB

Closing Report is in document 10/0644r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 10/0622r0


Mar 2010 Orlando, Florida, USA

Listened to the following proposals:

 

Document number

Title

Author(s)

1

10/219r3

Solution Choices for Interworking with 802.1Qat

Ganesh Venkatesan

2

09/1183r1

Resolution to Draft 0.02 Internal Review  Comment #3

Brian Hart

3

10/319r0,10/320r0

Improving MRG with DMS

Brian Hart

4

10/304r0

Empirical Formulae for EDCA overhead factor

Graham Smith

5

10/398r0

Designated MSRP Node handling on 802.11 Network

Philippe Klein

6

10/326r0

OBSS Race Condition Solution

Alex Ashley

7

10/411r0, 10/412r0

Frame-Specific Retry Limit for Intra-Stream Prioritization

Yacine Ghamri Doudane

Accomplishments

·                        Discussed, resolved and approved corresponding contributions related to comments on Draft 0.02, D0.03

·                        Listened to technical proposals on TGaa topics

·                        Jointly met with 802.1AVB

·                        Reviewed alternate solutions on interworking with 802.1Qat proposal.

·                        Selected an approach for 802.11 interworking with 802.1Qat MSR protocol

·                        Empowered the editor to generate D0.05 incorporating approved internal review comment resolutions/new contributions.

Plans

·                     Teleconferences (Mar 29, Apr 12, Apr 26, May 10 – 1100-1230 Hrs EDT)

·                     Complete internal review of Draft 0.04, resolve corresponding comments

·                     Listen to technical proposals on TGaa topics

·                     Complete Draft 0.05 review and generate comment spreadsheet

·                     May 2010 Meeting

·                     Complete Draft 0.05 comment resolution

·                     Approve Draft1.0 and kickoff WG letter Ballot

Closing Report is in document 10/0395r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 10/0422r0


Jan 2010 2010, Los Angeles, California, USA

Listened to the following proposals:

Document number

Title

Author(s)

09/850r2 and 10/0048r1

Alternate EDCA Parameter Set

Alex Ashley

10/926r7 and

10/0137r0

Interworking with 802.1Qat

Ganesh Venkatesan

10/0055r0

Draft 0.03 Internal Review Comments

TGaa members

09/850r4

4-Queue version of Alternate EDCA Parameter Set proposal

Alex Ashley

 

Informal presentation on Harmonizing 802.11 MRG and 802.11v DMS

Brian Hart

10/0062r0

OBSS Race Condition

Alex Ashley

Accomplishments

·                     Listened to 4 technical presentations

·                     Adopted resolutions to some internal review comments into TGaa draft (10/0055r1)

·                     Adopted technical proposal in 09/850r4 into TGaa draft

·                     Adopted interworking with 802.1Qat proposal in 10/0137r0 into TGaa draft

·                     Planned for the joint meeting with 802.1AVB in March 2010

Plans

Teleconferences

  • Resolve internal review comments Draft 0.03 and Draft 0.04

Mar 2010 meeting (Orlando, Florida, USA)

·               End the meeting with resolutions to all Draft 0.03/0.04 and empower the editor to generate Draft 1.0.

Closing Report is in document 10/0157r0

Meeting Minutes are in document 10/0127r0

 


Nov 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Listened to the following proposals:

1150/r1

Feedback-jamming Multicast ARQ results with capture effect

Jochen Miroll

1139/r1

OBSS Management Text

Graham Smith

1138/r1

Outline of Proposed OBSS Solution

Graham Smith

1137/r1

EDCA Bandwidth Factor

Graham Smith

1136/r1

AP Shut Out Neighborhood Effect

Graham Smith

0926/r4

Interworking with 802.1Qat

Ganesh Venkatesan

1215/r0

Non-contentious (internal review) comments assigned to BrianH

Brian Hart

1251/r0

Intra-AC Prioritization Use Cases

Alex Ashley

1157/r1

Explain OBSS issue as well as possible simulation scenarios for OBSS in TGac

Takatori Yasushi

 

Accomplishments

  1. Listened to 9 technical presentations
  2. Adopted resolutions to some internal review comments into TGaa draft (1215r0)
  3. Listened to the complete OBSS solution and adopted the corresponding (updated) text (1139r3)
  4. Brainstormed on intra-AC prioritization Use Cases
  5. Met jointly with 802.1AVB
  6. Approved 09/926r5 as the guiding document describing the work that needs to be done in 802.11aa and 802.1Qat

Plans

Teleconferences

·Hear presentations on inter-working with 802.1Qat and Intra-AC priorities

·Review Draft 0.02 and address comments/issues

Jan ‘09 meeting (Los Angeles, California, USA)

·               End the session with approved text for all TGaa PAR topics

Closing Report is in document 09/1269r1

Meeting Minutes are in document 09/1270r0

 


Sep 2009, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA

The Task Group did not meet.


July 2009, San Francisco, California, USA

Listened to the following proposals:

1.            Stream Classification Service (09/0725r0)

2.            Implementation for Intra-AC Differentiated Services (09/0022r1)

3.            Applicability of 802.11s MCCA to HCCA OBSS (09/0660r3)

4.            OBSS Sharing with Access Fraction (09/0662r2)

5.            40MHz Channel Selection (09/0740r0)

6.            HCCAOP Scheme – Efficiency and Sharing (09/0666r3)

7.            Proposal for OBSS (09/0757r1)

8.            Agenda for Joint Meeting with 802.1AVB (09/787r0)

9.            20MHz versus 40MHz for Video (09/805r0)

10.        OSQAP OBSS Requirements Compliancy (09/0882r0)

11.        Neighborhood Capture and OBSS (09/0844r0)

 

In addition to these presentation Graham Smith presented an overview of TGaa Goals for OBSS to TGac (09/762r0).

Accomplishments

Adopted the Drop Precedence submission into TGaa Draft (09/726r1)

Listened to the complete OBSS solution (09/757r1)

Joint meeting with 802.1AVB

Decided not to meet in the September Interim

Listened to proposals/simulation results

Noted a 4 month slip in the TGaa timeline

Plans

Teleconferences

·Continue with OBSS discussions

·Address review comments

·Prepare presentations for joint meeting with AVB

·Prepare TGaa Draft 0.02

Nov ‘09 meeting (Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

·               Start the session with TGaa Draft 0.02

·               Adopt submissions into TGaa draft in order to address all the PAR topics

·               Meet jointly with 802.1AVB

Closing Report is in document 09/0891r0.

TGaa will not be meeting in Waikaloa, Hawaii in September 2009


March 2009, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Listened to the following proposals:

12.        Considerations for OBSS Sharing Using QLoad element (09/497r2)

13.        Considerations for Statistical Multiplexing Support for OBSS (09/496r2)

14.        OBSS Simulations/Results

    • OBSS Simulations (09/474r0),
    • Source for Video tests (09/524r0) and
    • OBSS 11g results (09/483r1)

15.        More Reliable Multicast/Broadcast results 09/528r1

Accomplishments

Vice-Chair -- Elected Alex Ashley as Vice-Chair for the Task Group

Listened to proposals/simulation results

Others

Internal review of Draft 0.01

Timeline review

Plan for the joint meeting with 802.1AVB (in the July plenary)

Plans

Teleconferences

·                     Continue with OBSS discussions

·                     Address review comments

·                     Aggressively address other topics from TGaa PAR

·                     Prepare presentations for joint meeting with AVB

July ‘09 meeting (San Francisco, California, USA)

·               Converge on a framework for OBSS

·               Complete internal review of D0.01

·               Make progress on other PAR topics

Closing Report is in document 09/0613r0.

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March 2009, Vancouver, Canada

Listened to the following proposals (* at the joint meeting with 802.1AVB):

1.            Distributed Channel Assignment 09/285r0 Andrew Myles

2.            OBSS Analysis of Channel Requirements 08/1470r4 Graham Smith

3.            Overlapping BSS Proposal 09/230r0 Graham Smith

4.            OBSS OSQAP QoS Issues 09/347r0 Graham Smith

5.            Efficient Error Control Using Network Coding for Multicast Transmission 09/277r0 Kevin Rhee

6.            Feedback-jamming Multicast ARQ  09/.290r0 Jochen Miroll

7.            Quasi-reliable Multicast 09/247r0 Jochen Miroll

8.            More Reliable GroupCast Proposal Present 09/340r0 Hang Liu

9.            Drop Precedence in wireless, wired-wireless networks* 09/264r0 Alex Ashley

10.        AVB DMN and 802.11 09/0403r0* Philippe Klein

11.        Group addressed normative text 08/1244r2

Accomplishments

OBSS

·                     Listened to four presentations on OBSS in the context of TGaa

·                     Started discussions on a strategy and plan for OBSS

Reliable Multicast

·                     Reviewed the harmonized set of Reliable Multicast mechanism(s)

·                     Listened to 2 additional proposals on reliable multicast

·                     Adopted harmonized Reliable Multicast mechanism(s) into TGaa draft

Joint Meeting with 802.1AVB