IEEE P802.11 - ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE OFFLOAD (AIO) STUDY GROUP (SG) -
MEETING UPDATE
Status of IEEE 802.11 AIO SG
Chair: Gaurang Naik
1st Vice-chair: Xiaofei Wang
2nd Vice-chair: Jerome Henry
Secretary: Zhanjing Bao
Page Contents
- Background
- Goals
- May 2026
- July 2026
Background
AI Offload is a new Study Group within the IEEE 802.11 working group that will investigate MAC technologies to support the offloading of compute intense AI inference tasks to edge AI Wi-Fi Access Points and other Wi-Fi enabled edge compute devices.
The study group has been created in March 2026 and the first meeting was held in May 2026.
Goals
The goal of this IEEE 802.11 Study Group is to produce a PAR and CSD to develop an IEEE802.11 standard to facilitate the offloading of compute intense AI inference tasks to edge AI Wi-Fi Access Points and other Wi-Fi enabled edge compute devices.
July 2026
Main documents
Achievements
The main achievements of this meeting were:
- Approved the P802.11bu PAR and CSD
- See 11-26/978r7 for the approved PAR
- See 11-26/979r7 for the approved CSD
- Approved the May 2026 Interim minutes (see 11-26/1100r0 below)
- Eleven technical presentations on use cases and scope:
- 11-26/1042: Thoughts on AI Offload, Shravan Kalyankar, Huawei
- 11-26/1323: AI Offload use cases for vehicle, Fumihide Goto, Denso
- 11-26/1428: AI offload use case for agent - follow up, Zisheng Wang, ZTE
- 11-26/1282: Thoughts on cooperative AI Offload solutions, Tongxin Shu, Sanechips
- 11-26/1139: AI meets Location-Based Entertainment, Chih-Ho Hsu, Sony
- 11-26/1340: Thoughts on AI Offload from an Automotive Perspective, Jing Ma, Toyota
- 11-26/1341: Considerations on AI Offload Use Cases, Xu Chen, Xiaomi
- 11-26/1379: Thoughts on AIO directions, Jerome Henry, Cisco
- 11-26/1391: AI Offload Framework, Duncan Ho, Qualcomm
- 11-26/1413: Sensing Use Case, Antonio De La Oliva, UC3M
- 11-26/1417: Consideration for AI Service Coordination, Sam Shi, Oppo
Teleconferences
September 2026 plans
- Approve July 2026 Plenary meeting minutes
- Continue technical presentations
May 2026
Main documents
Achievements
The main achievements of this meeting were:
- Current status
- Selected and confirmed the AIO SG Officers:
- AIO SG Secretary: Zhanjing Bao
- AIO SG 1st Vice Chair: Xiaofei Wang
- AIO SG 2nd Vice Chair: Jerome Henry
- Five technical presentations on use cases and scope:
- 11-26/822r0: AI offload use cases, Duncan Ho, Qualcomm
- 11-26/930r2: AI Offload Use Cases - Agent Perspective, Zisheng Wang, ZTE
- 11-26/994r0: AI offloading use cases and requirements, Sam Shi, Oppo
- 11-26/995r0: Considerations on AI offload procedures, Sam Shi, Oppo
- 11-26/857r0: Considerations on the scope of AI Offload, Robin Thomas, Lenovo
- Discussions on PAR and CSD:
- 11-26/978r1: Initial PAR discussion, Gaurang Naik, Qualcomm
- 11-26/979r2: Initial CSD discussion, Gaurang Naik, Qualcomm
- Teleconferences
- Wednesday 17th June 2026, 10:00 ET, 2 hours
July 2026 plans
- Approve May 2026 Interim meeting minutes
- Continue discussions on PAR and CSD
- Discuss technical presentations
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