IEEE P802.11 - TASK GROUP S
- MEETINGS UPDATE
Status of Project IEEE 802.11s
Mesh Networking
Mesh Networking Task Group Report
Task Group Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
Temporary Technical Editor: Kazuyuki Sakoda
Secretary: Stephen Rayment
May 2009, Montreal, Quebec
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday to Thursday,
11-14 May 2009 at the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Monteal,
Qubec. Because the Chair was unable to attend, Stuart J. Kerry acted
as Temporary Chair of TGs for this meeting.
At the March 2009 meeting, TGs requested and the IEEE 802.11 Working
Group approved a procedural Letter Ballot on sending TGs Draft D3.0 to
technical Letter Ballot. The Editor completed Draft D3.0 and the
procecural Letter Ballot passed leading to techncial Letter Ballot
#147 on TGs Draft D3.0.
TGs Draft D3.0 passes Letter Ballot #147 with a 79% approval rating
and 1,195 comments. The Montreal meeting was devoted to the
classification and resolution of these comments.
- Comments from LB #147 resolved thus far are as follows:
| TOTAL |
Technical |
Editorial |
|---|
| Total Comments |
1195 | 777 | 418 |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Montreal |
635 | 53% | 306 | 39% | 329 | 79% |
|---|
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The updated and annotated agenda
for the meeting is in submission 11-09/470r3, the closing report
is 11-09/554r0, and the minutes are 11-09/595r0.
The TGs goal for the July 2009 IEEE 802.11 meeting is to continue
resolving comments from Letter Ballot #147 and go to recirculation.
March 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday to Thursday,
9-12 March 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver in Vancouver, British
Columbia.
In Vancouver, TGs completed the mileston of resolving all comments
from its second Letter Ballot (802.11 Working Group Letter Ballot
#126) on P802.11s Draft D2.0 and voted to ask the 802.11 Working Group to go to Letter Ballot
again! The Working Group approved this request and the Letter Ballot
is expected to complete befor the May 802.11 Interim meeting.
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The updated and annotated agenda
for the meeting is in submission 11-09/205r13, the closing report
is 11-09/365r0, and the minutes are 11-09/312r0.
- Technical presentations received included the following:
- "Clarifications for Peer Service Period", 11-09/269r0
- "PS-Poll Frame Use in Mesh", 11-09/270r0
- "Operation in Light Sleep Mode", 11-09/271r0
- "MCCA Enhancements", 11-09/280r0
- "Changes to Abbreviated Handshake", 11-09/0283r0
- "TGs draft D2.07 status report", 11-09/240r0
- "SAE Test Vectors", 11-09/0292r21
- "Final resolutions for MCCA related comments", 11-09/320r0
- "Action frames and addressing", 11-09/0149r2
- "Multi rate support for mesh STA", 11-09/316r1
- "Some fixes to sync text", 11-09/317r0
- "Some fixes to power save", 11-09/318r0
- "General Editorial Comment Resolution", 11-09/353r0
- "Proactive PREQ/P and HWMP MIB Variables", 11-09/260r1
- "Collocated Mesh STAs", 802.11-09/0349r0
- "Updated Abbreviated Handshake", 11-09/0268r0 (normative text: 11-09/0266r0, comment spreadsheet 11-09/0267r0)
- "Mesh Peering Instance Controller", 11-09/0288r0 (normative text:
11-09/0287r0)
- "Corrected resolution for Clause 7.3.2.98.2", 11-09/373r0
- "802.11s integration into the 802.11 CFs framework",
11-09/381r0
- "Root Announcement Cleanup", 11-09/385r0
- "Forwarding and Addressing", 11-09/377r0
- "Suggested Resolutions of CIDs 326, 355, and 1710",
11-09/330r1
- "Resolution to CID 1736 - HWMP Overview", 11-09/0389r0
The TGs goal for the May 2009 IEEE 802.11 meeting is to start
resolving comments from its new Letter Ballot.
January 2009, Los Angeles, California
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
19-22 Janury 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles, Califonria.
TGs is working on resolving comments from 802.11 Letter Ballot
#126. A summary of comment resolution so far is as follows:
| TOTAL |
Technical |
Editorial |
|---|
| Total Comments |
1964 | 1365 | 599 |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Jacksonville |
474 | 24% | 177 | 13% | 297 | 50% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Denver |
783 | 40% | 333 | 24% | 450 | 75% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Waikoloa |
1506 | 77% | 942 | 69% | 564 | 94% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Dallas |
1660 | 85% | 1083 | 79% | 577 | 96% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Los Angeles |
1891 | 96% | 1299 | 95% | 592 | 99% |
|---|
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The updated and annotated agenda
for the meeting is in submission 11-08/1443r13, the closing report
is 11-09/187r1, and the minutes are 11-09/110r0.
- Technical presentations received included the following:
- "ERP Protection in IEEE 802.11s Mesh Network", 11-08/1468r2, 11-09/160r0
- "Comment Resolution Plan", 11-09/53r3
- "A vendor specific plan for centralized security", 11-09/114r1, 11-09/112r0
- "11s Architecture and MIB Structure", 11-09/52r2
- "Congestion Control Comments Resolution", 11-08/1463r0
- "Some fixes to mesh power management", 11-09/121r0, 11-09/122r0
- "Resolving a few SAE comments", 11-09/145r1
- "MDA Comment Resolutions", 11-09/151r0, 11-09/153r0,
11-09/154r0, 11-08/1269r1
- "Proxies and Portals", 11-09/115r0
- "Action Frames and Addressing", 11-09/149r0
- "Some fixes to Annex V.1", 11-09/162r1
- "The need of ERP Protection in IEEE 802.11s Mesh Network",
11-09/167r0
- "Normative Text for 11s MIB Structure", 11-09/165r0
- "Precursor Lists and Forwarding Information", 11-09174r0
- "1-PREQ : n-Targets versus n-PREQ : 1-Target", 11-09/188r0
The TGs goal for the January
2009 IEEE 802.11 meeting is to finish resolving comments and go to Letter Ballot.
November 2008, Dallas, Texas
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
10-11 November 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas in Dallas, Texas.
TGs is working on resolving comments from 802.11 Letter Ballot
#126. A summary of comment resolution so far is as follows:
| TOTAL |
Technical |
Editorial |
|---|
| Total Comments |
1964 | 1365 | 599 |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Jacksonville |
474 | 24% | 177 | 13% | 297 | 50% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Denver |
783 | 40% | 333 | 24% | 450 | 75% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Waikoloa |
1506 | 77% | 942 | 69% | 564 | 94% |
|---|
| Resolved Thru Dallas |
1660 | 85% | 1083 | 79% | 577 | 96% |
|---|
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The updated and annotated agenda
for the meeting is in submission 11-08/1184r12, the closing report
is 11-08/1369r2, and the minutes are 11-08/1431r0.
- Technical presentations received included the following:
- "SAE Cleanup", 11-08/1264r0
- "Selection of a Mesh Security Protocol using the Mesh Profile", 11-08/1338r0
- "Avoiding Interactions with Lazy-WDS Equipment", 11-08/278r5
- "3-Address Mesh Broadcast Frames", 11-08/383r2
- "Resolving some SAE comments", 11-08/1355r2
- "Simple Improvement for EDCA Usage in 802.11s", 11-08/1357r9
- "November PLM Comment Resolutions", 11-08/1270r2
- "Updates on PLM Text", 11-08/1269r1
- "Mesh Key Distribution Proposal", 11-081296r0
- "Upgrades to MSA to support multiple MKD", 11-08/1361r0
- "A Modest Proposal", 11-08/1263r0
- "HT Features in 11s Mesh Network", 11-08/1258r5
- "Sync related comment resolution text", 11-08/1324r2
- "Channel switch across the regulatory class comment resolution", 11-08/1370r0
- "Resolving some SAE comments", 11-08/1355r3
- "MDA Comment Resolution", 11-08/1401r0
- "QoS STA function applies to Mesh STA", 11-08/1416r0
- "Current status of project open80211s", 11-08/1313r0
The TGs goal for the January
2008 IEEE 802.11 meeting is to resolve comments, improve
its Draft, and go to Letter Ballot.
September 2008, Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawai'i
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
8-11 September 2008 at the Hilton Waikoloa on the Big Island of
Hawai'i.
-
The updated and annotated agenda
for the meeting is in submission 11-08/935r14, the closing report
is 11-08/1080r1, and the minutes are 11-08/1078r0.
- TGs failed 802.11 Letter Ballot 126 on 802.11s Draft 2.0
with approximately 61% approval (75% is required).
It is working on resolving comments.
- Technical presentation received included the following:
- "Power Aware Link Metric", 11-08/1014r0
- "Normative Text for Power Save", 11-08/1057r0
- "MDA Issues", 11-08/635r3
- "Power Aware Link Metric and Path Loop Avoidance",
11-08/636r5
- "Terminology Changes in a Nutshell...", 11-08/1120r1
- "Channel switch related comment resolution", 11-08/1067r1
- "Proposed Comment Resolution Relating to M BS", 1-08/1077r0
- "Synchronization Related Comment Resolution", 11-08/1071r0
- "Proposed Resolutions on PLM Text", 11-08/1082r1
- "PREQ/PREP Create/Process/Forward", 11-08/957r4
- "Text for RFI Comments Related to Sequence Numbers",
11-08/0943r12
- "Normative Text for Power Save", 11-08/1057r2
- "MDA comments 1", 11-08/1103r0
- "CPVs in mesh formation", 11-08/1102r0
- "HT Features in Mesh Network", 11-08/798r3
- TGs has scheduled an ad hoc meeting 5-7 November in
Irving, Texas. In addition TGs has scheduled teleconferences
every other Wednesday at 1000 (10am) US Eastern Time from 17 September
through 29 October.
The TGs goal for its November 2008 ad hoc meeting and the November
2008 IEEE 802.11 meeting is to resolve comments, improve
its Draft, and go to Letter Ballot.
July 2008, Denver, Colorado
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
14-17 July 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Denver Convention Center in
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
Lihu'e, Kaua'i. 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.
The TGs goal for its September 2008 ad hoc meeting and the September
2008 IEEE 802.11 meeting is to continue to resolve comments and improve
its Draft.
May 2008, Jacksonville, Florida
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
12-15 May 2008 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront hotel.
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
.
- 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.
The TGs goal for the July 2008 802.11 meeting is to continue to
resolve comments and improve its Draft.
March 2008, Orlando,
Florida
Mesh Networking Task Group Report
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
17-20 March 2008 at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida.
At this meeting, further improvements were made in the 802.11s Draft
producing draft D1.10. The Task Group
requested and the 802.11 Working Group voted to approve renumbering this
Draft as D2.0 and going to Letter
Ballot. It had also been voted to go to Letter Ballot
at the previous meeting in January
but could not be accomplished due to editing difficulties.
It was announced that Avinash Joshi is now acting as
temporary Technical Editor of TGs.
-
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
.
- 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.
.
The TGs goal for the May
2008 802.11 meeting is to resolve comments
from its new Letter Ballot.
January 2008, Taipei (臺北市),
Taiwan (臺灣)
Mesh Networking Task Group Report
The Mesh Networking Task Group (TGs) met on Monday through Thursday
14-17 January 2008 at the Howard Plaza Hotel in Taipei (臺北市),
Taiwan (臺灣).
At this meeting, the milestone of completing resolution of all 5,713 comments
on the first Letter Ballot on 802.11s (Draft D1.0) was reached. The Task Group
requested and the 802.11 Working Group voted to go to a Procedural Letter
Ballot to approve going to Letter Ballot again with
a Draft D2.0. The following table show TGs progress in resolving comments
over the past 13 months:
| 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% |
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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
.
- 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.
The TGs goal for the March
2008 802.11 meeting is to continue to resolve comments any comments that have
been received by that point on its new Letter Ballot.
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