IEEE P802.11 - TASK GROUP S - MEETINGS UPDATE

Status of Project IEEE 802.11s

Mesh Networking

July 2008, Denver, Colorado

• The updated and annotated agenda for the meeting is in submission 11-08/701r9, the closing report is 11-08/909r1, and the minutes are 11-08/835r0.

• TGs failed 802.11 Letter Ballot 126 on 802.11s Draft 2.0 with approximately 61% approval (75% is required). By the end of the July meeting, 40% of these comments had been resolved by vote of the Task Group, as follows:

  Overall Summary	Total	Open	Closed	% Closed
  Total Comments:	1964	1181	783	40%
  Editorial Comments:	656	206	450	69%
  Technical Comments:	1308	975	333	25%

• Technical presentation received included the following:
  • "MDA Enhancements for Power Save", 11-08/873r0
  • "Link Metric for High Throughput", 11-08/0638r1
  • "Symmetrical Link Metric and Path Loop Avoiding", 11-08/0636
  • "Changes to SAE State Machine", 11-08-0836r2
  • "Different MKD domain MPs communication method", 11-08/0791r0
  • "Authentication and Key Management of MP with multiple radios", 11-08/0317r6
  • "Key Holder Protocol Revisions", 11-08/0783r1
  • "Mesh QoS: Multiple Simultaneous Routes", 11-08/849r1
  • "MDA Issues", 11-08/0635r2
  • "Power save for wireless mesh", 11-08/846r0
  • "HT Features in Mesh Network", 11-08/0798r2
  • "Easy-to-Resolve SAE Comments from LB126", 11-08/0753r2
  • "Power Save For 802.11s", 11-08/0757r3
• TGs has scheduled an ad hoc meeting 3-5 September in Lihue, Kauai. In addition TGs has scheduled teleconferences on Wednesdays at 1000 (10am) US Eastern Time from 23 July through 29 October except when this falls during a face-to-face meeting.

May 2008, Jacksonville, Florida

TGs failed 802.11 Letter Ballot 126 on 802.11s Draft 2.0 with approximately 61% approval (75% is required). This Letter Ballot ended May 3rd. TGs had previous scheduled an ad hoc meeting for 8-10 May in Santa Clara, California, during which all the comments that were received in this Letter Ballot were classified and some tentative comment resolutions produced (See 11-08/493r7).

• The updated and annotated agenda for the Jacksonville meeting is in submission 11-08/462r11, the closing report is 11-08/682r2, and the minutes are 11-08/580r1.

• TGs confirmed the appointment of Anthony Maida of 3eTI as Techncial Editor, re-affirmed Stephen Rayment of BelAir Networks as Secretary. It also recommended the continuance of Donald Eastlake 3rd of Motorola as Chair which recommendation was adopted by the 802.11 Working Group.

• TGs decided, during the May meeting, to proceed using Draft D2.0 as a base.and to consider for resolution all of the 1,958 comments submitted. In addition, one presentation received by TGs during the May meeting contained 6 comments and TGs voted to add these to the Letter Ballot comments. By the end of the May meeting, the resolution of these comments had proceeded as follows:

  Overall Summary	Total	Open	Closed	% Closed
  Total Comments:	1964	1426	538	27%
  Editorial Comments:	649	318	331	51%
  Technical Comments:	1315	1108	207	16%

• Technical presentations were received as follows:
  • "Presence Information in Large Mesh Networks", 11-08/561r0
  • "MDA Enhancements", 11-08/577r0
  • "Forwarding in PS mesh", 11-08/578r0
  • "Scheduled service periods in wireless mesh" 11-08/619r0
  • "Refining the Security Architecture", 11-08/617r0
  • "MSA Key Hierarchy Analysis and Alternatives", 11-08/501r0
  • "Protocol Coexistence Issue in MSA Subsequent Authentication", 11-08/502r0
  • "Authentication and Key Management of MP with multiple radios", 11-08/317r3
  • "Key Wrapping Comments", 11-08/620r2
  • "KDF mods and Test Vectors", 11-08/637r0
  • "Recovered Security Comments for LB 126", 11-08/678r0
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• TGs has scheduled an ad hoc meetings 23-25 June in Munich, Germany, to work on comment resolution. In addition TGs has scheduled teleconferences every other Wednesdays at 10:00 (10am) US Eastern Time May 28 through July 23 except when this falls during a face-to-face meeting.

March 2008, Orlando, Florida

• The updated and annotated agenda for the meeting is in submission 11-08/210r10, the closing report is 11-08/423r0, and the minutes are 11-08/424r0.

• Technical submissions that were received during the March TGs meeting included the following:
  • "Enhancements to Mesh Discovery", 11-08/357r2
  • "Odd Mesh Header", 11-08/373r1
  • "Normative Text for Proxy Frame Format", 11-08/306r1
  • "Authentication and Key Management of MP with multiple radios", 11-08/317r1
  • "Can RTS/CTS remedy problems caused by single-channel wireless meshes?", 11-08/292r0 / 11-08/291r0
  • "Password Authentication for Mesh Points", 11-08/45r3, 11-08/299r0
  • "Avoiding Interactions with Lazy WDS Equipment", 11-08/278r5
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• TGs has scheduled an ad hoc meeting 8-10 May 2008 (Thursday through Saturday) in Santa Clara, California, hosted by Intel, to resolve comments from the new Letter Ballot.

• TGs has scheduled bi-weekly teleconferences from April 16th through July 23rd, Wednesdays, except during face-to-face meetings, at 10:00 Eastern US Time. .

January 2008, Taipei (臺北市), Taiwan (臺灣)

	Resolved	Unresolved	Resolved	Unresolved
Dec-06	0	5,713	0.0%	100.0%
Jan-07	3,001	2,712	52.5%	47.5%
Mar-07	4,296	1,417	75.2%	24.8%
May-07	4,818	895	84.3%	15.7%
Jul-07	5,230	483	91.5%	8.5%
Sep-07	5,482	231	96.0%	4.0%
Nov-07	5,611	103	98.3%	1.7%
JAN-08	5,713	0	100.0%	0.0%

• The updated and annotated agenda for the meeting is in submission 11-07/2933r13, the closing report is 11-08/169r0, and the minutes are 11-08/170r0.

• Submissions were received during the January TGs meeting included the following:
  • "Power save for 802.11s", 11-08/168r1
  • "Suggested resolution to Sync, APSD, etc, comments", 11-08/108r4
  • "Peer Service Period for 802.11s", 11-08/162r0
  • "More on Performance of Express Forwarding in Mesh", 11-08/142r2
  • "PSK related comment resolutions", 11-08/159r0
  • "Suggested resolution text relating to mesh beaconing behavior", 11-08/147r0
  • "Text Updates for Binding of Peer Link and Security Association", 11-08/119r0
  • "Five Comment Resolutions", 11-08/140r0
  • "Mesh Key Deletion Clarification", 11-08/128r0
  • "Key Hierarchy Nonce Removal", 11-08/27r0
  • "Password Authenticated Key Exchange", 11-08/45r1
  • "Mesh Regulatory Class Switch", 11-08/0072r1
  • "Peer Service Period", 11-08/103r1
  • "Suggested resolution to Sync, APSD, etc, comments", 11-08/108r2
  • "Mesh Pre-Shared Key Clarification", 11-07/2037r1
  • "Suggested resolutions to remaining security comments", 11-08/0127r0
  • "Improvements to Power Savings", 11-08/110r1
  • "Mesh QoS Control", 11-08/0068r0, 11-08/0069r0
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• TGs had scheduled an ad hoc meeting 7-9 April in North America, exact location to be determined, to resolve comments and improve its Draft.

• No teleconferences are scheduled between the January and March meetings.

November 2007, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

• The updated and annotated agenda for the meeting is in submission 11-07/2639r11, the closing report is 11-07/2915r0, and the minutes are 11-07/2826.

• TGs conintues to work on resolving comments and improving its Draft preparatory to going out to Letter Ballot again. By the end if the November meeting the resolution of these comments had continued with less than 100 comments remaining open.
• Technical presentations were received during the September TGs meeting as follows:
  • "Broadcast MDA", 11-07/2575r2, 11-07/2723r2
  • "High Throughput Mesh", 11-07/2700r0, 11-07/2732r1
  • "Suggested PICS Proforma Table Additions", 11-07/1991r2
  • "Power efficient and unified 802.11s solution", 11-07/2646r3
  • "Mesh Power Save", 11-07/2717r1
  • "Analyzing the Beacon Collision Probability in Mesh Networks", 11-07/2813r1
  • "MAC QoS", 11-07/2814r0
  • "Common TSF Issues", 11-07/2518r3
  • "Proposed resolution to some security comments", 11-07/2838r0
  • "Minor text updates for Abbreviated Handshake", 11-07/2816r0
  • "A More Efficient KDF", 11-07/2855r0
  • "PMKID List updates for MSA Authentication", 11-07/2648r0
  • "Key Hierarchy Nonce Updates", 11-07/2649r1
  • "GTK Clarification for Mesh Access Points", 11-07/2865r0
  • "Key usage update for Peer Link Management", 11-07/2839r2
  • "Mesh Neighbour List Element", 11-07/2817r0
  • "MBCA and Beacon Timing Element Clean Up", 11-07/2819r1
  • "802.11s functional interdependences", 11-07/2853r0
  • "Performance Evaluation of 'Express Forwarding' for a Single-Channel Mesh", 11-07/2454r1
  • "Effect of Contention Window Size on 'Express Forwarding' Performance for Single-Channel Mesh", 11-07/2886r0
  • "MDA comments categorization", 11-07/2868r0
  • "Editorial fixes for TGs D1.07", 11-07/2882r0
  • "The Last 20 Routing, Forwarding and Interworking Comments", 11-07-2892r0
  • "Relationship between peer link and physical link", 11-07/2572r2
  • "Simplified 'Express' Forwarding for single-channel wireless mesh", 11-07/2910r0
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• TGs had scheduled an ad hoc meeting 23-25 October in the Boston area, Massachusetts, but this meeting was cancelled. In addition TGs has scheduled teleconferences on Wednesdays at 1700 (5pm) US Eastern Time on 21 November 11 December, 9 January, and 23 January.

September 2007, Waikoloa, Hawai'i

• The updated and annotated agenda for the meeting is in submission 11-07/2290r11, the closing report is 11-07/2570r0, and the minutes are 11-07/2495r0.

• TGs conintues to work on resolving comments and improving its Draft preparatory to going out to Letter Ballot again. By the end if the September meeting the resolution of these comments had continued as follows:

  Overall Summary	Total	Open	Closed	% Closed
  Total Comments:	5713	261	5452	95.96%
  Editorial Comments:	2475	0	2475	100.0%
  Technical Comments:	3238	261	2977	92.87%

• Technical presentations were received during the September TGs meeting as follows:
  • "Editorial fixes for TGs D1.06", 11-07/2301r3
  • "Probe Request Frame Cleanup", 11-07/2445r0
  • "Beaconing Analysis in Mesh", 11-07/2414r1
  • "Mesh Beacon and Legacy Beacon", 11-07/2306r2
  • "MDA Fixes for TGs", 11-07/2375r2
  • "Resolution of Guava Comments", 11-07/2409r0
  • "Performance Evaluation of 'Express Forwarding' for a Single-Channel Mesh", 11-07/2454r0
  • "Forwarding at Intermediate and Destination Mesh Points (MP) using 6-Address Scheme", 11-07/2439r0
  • "An Overview to Regulatory Domains", 11-07/2503r0
  • "Suggested Resolution for Open Security Comments", 11-07/2411r2
  • "WLAN Segregated Data Services", 11-07/2491r1
  • "Beaconing analysis in mesh", 11-07/2414r1
  • "A simple & scalable traffic engineering solution for 802.11s", 11-07/2534
  • "8 RFI comments", 11-07/2517r0
  • "MDA Simulation Study: MDAOP Stretching and Other Concerns", 11-07/2537r0
  • "Updates on Abbreviated Handshake", 11-07/2543r0
  • "Overview of an abbreviated handshake with sequential and simultaneous forms", 11-07/2539r0
  • "Mesh Group Key Delivery Updates", 11-07/2362r2
  • "End-to-end Aware Association in Mesh Network: Performance Study", 11-07/2528r0r1
  • "Proposed amendment to Table 7.8", 11-07/2549r0
  • "Reconsidering RA-OLSR", 11-07/2547r2
  • "MPs that do not Forward", 11-07/2555r0
  • "Simulation Evaluation on Peer Link Management Protocol", 11-07/2553r0
  • "Fix Inconsistency in PLM Specification", 11-07/2577r0
  "Relationship between peer link and physical link", 11-07/2572r0
  • "Resolution of Some APSD-related Comments", 11-07/2573r0
  • "Broadcast MDA", 11-07/2575r0
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• TGs had scheduled an ad hoc meeting 23-25 October in the Boston area, Massachusetts, In addition TGs has scheduled teleconferences on Wednesdays at 1700 (5pm) US Eastern Time starting 10 October through 21 November except when this falls during a face-to-face meeting.

July 2007, San Francisco, California

• The updated and annotated agenda for the meeting is in submission 11-07/1976r12, the closing report is 11-07/2224r0, and the minutes are 11-07/2277r0.

• TGs failed 802.11 Letter Ballot on 802.11s Draft 1.0 and decided, during the January meeting, to proceed using Draft D1.0 as a base.considering for resolution the 5,703 comments submitted with the Letter Ballot along with 10 others. By the end of the March meeting, 75.20% of these comments had been resolved by vote of the Task Group. By the end of the May meeting, 84.33% of these comments had been resolved by vote of the Task Group. By the end if the July meeting the resolution of these comments had continued as follows:

  Overall Summary	Total	Open	Closed	% Closed
  Total Comments:	5713	485	5228	91.51%
  Editorial Comments:	2475	0	2475	100.0%
  Technical Comments:	3238	485	2753	85.02%

• Technical presentations were received as follows:
  • "Mesh Local Synchronization", 11-07/2096r0
  • "Mesh Frame Formats", 11-07/2201r0, 11-07/799r8
  • "Power Management and Path Selection", 11-07/2095r2
  • "Path Selection and Power Save", 11-07/2181r0
  • "Updates on PLM protocol", 11-07/2174r1
  • "Abbreviated Handshake Updates and Design Rationale", 11-07/2176r0, 11-07/1999r2
  • "Overview of Improvements to Key Holder Protocols", 11-07/1988r1, 11-07/1987r1
  • "Mesh Pre-Shared Key Clarification", 11-07/2037r0
  • "Summary of Updates to MSA Overview and MKD Functionality Text", 11-07/2179r0, 11-07/2119r0
  • "Intra-Mesh Congestion Control Comment Resolution", 11-07/456r2
  • "Simulation Results", 11-07/2180r0
  • "Suggested Comment Resolution to CID 4491", 11-07/2146r1
  • "MDA Assorted Comments", 11-07/2005r2
  • "HWMP Frame Formats", 11-07/2199r0
  • "Suggested Editorial Updates on Information Element Lengths", 11-07/2152r1
  • "Mesh Frame Format and Addressing", 11-07/1989r1
  • "RA-OLSR Comment Resolution", 11-07/2125r2, 11-07/2124r4
  • "Synchronization Issues Ð A Summary", 11-07/2000r2
  • "Power-Save Aware Route Metrics ", 11-07/2200r2
  • "RFI CID Resolutions", 11-07/2258r0
  • "MDA Action Frame Formats", 11-07/2235r1
  • "Plans for an open implementation", 11-07/2164r1
  • "Segregated Data Services in 802.11", 11-07/2161r10
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• TGs had scheduled an ad hoc meeting 1-3 August in Munich, Germany and an ad hoc meeting 12-14 September in Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii, but has decided to cancel the Munich ad hoc. In addition TGs has scheduled teleconferences on Wednesdays at 1700 (5pm) US Eastern Time starting 1 August through 26 September except when this falls during a face-to-face meeting.

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