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November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 November 2009 VHTL 6 (TGac) Meeting Agenda Authors: Submission Date: 2009 -11 -15 Slide 1 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 IEEE 802. 11 ac: Very High Throughput < 6 GHz Task Group Atlanta 16 -20 November, 2009 Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung Electronics) osama 53@rogers. com +1 -613 -599 -5078 Vice Chairs: Menzo Wentink (Qualcomm) and Joonsuk Kim (Broadcom) Technical Editor: TBD Secretary: TBD Submission Slide 2 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Monday, November 16 2009 08: 00– 09: 30 • Call meeting to Order • Attendance Recording • Review of IEEE 802 and 802. 11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics • Agenda Discussion • Call for Submissions • Ad Hoc chair selection procedure • Presentations Submission Slide 3 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Miscellaneous Announcements • Warning: Do not leave your laptops unattended! – The meeting is not responsible for your unwatched stuff. • Wear your badge at all times in the meeting area! • Individual membership – In all IEEE standards meetings, membership is by individual, hence you do not represent a company or organization. • Photographs and Recordings – No sound recordings are permitted at 802. 11 WG or TG meetings. – No photographs allowed without WG Chair permission. • Media – Press and Analyst briefings – Only the 802. 11/. 15/. 18/. 19/. 22 WG Chair and WG Vice-Chairs are allowed to give verbal statements/interviews to the media on behalf of their respective IEEE working group. Submission Slide 4 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Important Stuff – Affiliation Frequently Asked Questions: http: //standards. ieee. org/faqs/affiliation. FAQ. html – Anti-Trust: http: //standards. ieee. org/resources/antitrust-guidelines. pdf – IEEE Ethics: http: //www. ieee. org/web/membership/ethics/code_ethics. html – Letter of Assurance Form: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/loa. pdf – IEEE Patent Committee: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/index. html – IEEE Patent Policy: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat-slideset. ppt – Patent FAQ: http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/faq. pdf Submission Slide 5 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Participants, Patents, and Duty to Inform • All participants in this meeting have certain obligations under the IEEE-SA Patent Policy. Participants: – “Shall inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of each “holder of any potential Essential Patent Claims of which they are personally aware” if the claims are owned or controlled by the participant or the entity the participant is from, employed by, or otherwise represents • “Personal awareness” means that the participant “is personally aware that the holder may have a potential Essential Patent Claim, ” even if the participant is not personally aware of the specific patents or patent claims – “Should inform the IEEE (or cause the IEEE to be informed)” of the identity of “any other holders of such potential Essential Patent Claims” (that is, third parties that are not affiliated with the participant, with the participant’s employer, or with anyone else that the participant is from or otherwise represents) – The above does not apply if the patent claim is already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance that applies to the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group Quoted text excerpted from IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws subclause 6. 2 – Early identification of holders of potential Essential Patent Claims is strongly encouraged – No duty to perform a patent search Submission Slide 6 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Patent Related Links All participants should be familiar with their obligations under the IEEE-SA Policies & Procedures for standards development. Patent Policy is stated in these sources: IEEE-SA Standards Boards Bylaws http: //standards. ieee. org/guides/bylaws/sect 6 -7. html#6 IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual http: //standards. ieee. org/guides/opman/sect 6. html#6. 3 Material about the patent policy is available at http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat-material. html If you have questions, contact the IEEE-SA Standards Board Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee. org or visit http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat/index. html This slide set is available at http: //standards. ieee. org/board/pat-slideset. ppt Submission Slide 7 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Call for Potentially Essential Patents • If anyone in this meeting is personally aware of the holder of any patent claims that are potentially essential to implementation of the proposed standard(s) under consideration by this group and that are not already the subject of an Accepted Letter of Assurance: – Either speak up now or – Provide the chair of this group with the identity of the holder(s) of any and all such claims as soon as possible or – Cause an LOA to be submitted Submission Slide 8 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings • All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. – Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. – Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. • Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. – Technical considerations remain primary focus – Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. – Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. – Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. -------------------------------See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5. 3. 10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Submission Slide 9 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Automated Attendance Recording • Go to http: //newton/11/attendance – Sign-in – Claim attendance credit for each session. • Only “sign-in” and “claim credit” for yourself, do NOT “sign-in” for others. • You have to log in every session! Submission Slide 10 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 General Flow of the TGac Meeting • Monday AM 1 – – – • Tuesday AM 1 – – • Ad hoc Chair Selection Submissions and TGac Presentations Thursday AM 1 – • Submissions and TGac Presentation Wednesday AM 1 – – • Approve July meeting minutes Submissions and TGac Presentations Tuesday AM 2 – • TGac Ad hoc meeting (8: 00 – 9: 30) Process for selecting ad hoc chairs Submissions and TGac Presentations Add hoc group meetings Thursday PM 1 – – – Submission Ad hoc group reports Submissions and TGac Process Presentations Teleconferences Slide 11 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 TG Status • 09 -059 r 4 is the baseline document for the Selection Procedure. • 09 -0161 r 2 is the baseline document for the Usage Models. • 09 -308 r 8 is the baseline document for the Channel Models Addendum. • 09 -451 r 7 is the baseline document for Functional Requirements and Evaluation Methodology • 09 -0992 r 2 is the Specification Framework baseline document Submission Slide 12 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Submissions • • • 09/0847 r 1, “IEEE 802. 11 ac Preamble with Legacy 802. 11 a/n Backward Compatibility”, Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Institute of Technology). 09/1161 r 0, “Preamble design aspects for MU-MIMO support”, Yujin Noh (LG Electronics) 09/1167 r 0, ” TGac Ad Hoc Group Operation and Chair Selection Procedure”, Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung Electronics) 09/1172 r 0 “DL MU-MIMO ack protocol”, Robert Stacey, Intel 09/1173 r 0 “Coherence Time Measurement for TGac Channel Model”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/1174 r 0, “ 802. 11 ac preamble discussions”, Hongyuan Zhang(Marvell) 09/1175 r 0, “Ad Hoc Groups Scope”, Rolf De Veght (Qualcomm) 09/1181 r 0, “Ad-hoc lifecycle”, Adrian Stephens (Intel Corporation) 09/1188 r 0, “Draft Channel Model Appendix on MU-MIMO Channel Generation”, Greg Breit (Qualcomm) 09/1194 r 0, “Introduction to OTA Testing of MIMO Devices”, ETS-Lindgren Submission Slide 13 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Straw Poll • Do you agree on using a single PLCP frame format for both SU/MU-MIMO ? • Yes = 25 • No =1 • Abstain = 8 Submission Slide 14 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Straw Poll • In order to support of spatial multiplexing of STA specific VHT-SIG in order to reduce preamble overhead, do you prefer: • Single stream transmission of VHT-SIG (conceptually non over-lapped design): 2 • Multi-stream transmission of VHT-SIG (conceptually over-lapped design): 2 – Abstain: many Submission Slide 15 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Tuesday, November 17 2009 08: 00– 10: 00 • • • Call meeting to Order Attendance Recording Reminder Review of IEEE 802 and 802. 11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics Miscellaneous Announcements Agenda Modification and approval Approval of Minutes – September 2009 Meeting Minutes, 11 -09/1195 r 0 Selection of Secretary Call for Submissions Presentations Submission Slide 16 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Straw Poll • Which selection procedure you support? 1. 2. Submission Down select procedure where each voting member votes for one candidate and the candidate with the fewest number of votes is eliminated - 0 Paper ballot where each voting member votes for three candidates - many Slide 17 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Motion to Approve Minutes • Move to approve the September meeting minutes in 1109/1195 r 0. – Move: Bruce – Second: Menzo – Unanimous consent Submission Slide 18 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Straw Poll • Should we have a separate system design document, or should we use the framework document to hold the system design? • Separate 6 • Framework 24 • Don’t know yet 34 Submission Slide 19 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Straw Poll • Should we use a formal switch (i. e. by motion in task group to switch between requirements and system design) between requirements and design phases, or should we allow iteration between them? • Formal switch 0 • Allow iteration 36 • Don’t know 16 Submission Slide 20 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Tuesday, November 17 2009 10: 30– 12: 30 • • Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • Presentations Submission Slide 21 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Wednesday, November 18 2009 08: 00– 10: 00 • Call Meeting to Order • IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder • TGac Ad Hoc Chair Confirmation and Selection • Presentations Submission Slide 22 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 TGac Ad Hoc Chair Nominees • MAC Ad Hoc • PHY Ad Hoc – Raja Banerjea (Marvell) – Minho Cheong (ETRI) – Vinko Erceg (Braodcom) – Matthew Fischer (Broadcom) – Jae Seung Lee (ETRI) – Allan Zhu (Samsung) • Coexistence Ad Hoc – – • MU-MIMO Ad Hoc – – Youhan Kim (Atheros) Yuichi Morioka (Sony) Eldad Perahia (Intel) Yasushi Takatori (NTT) Submission Slide 23 Brian Hart (Cisco) Peter Loc (Ralink) Robert Stacey (Intel) Sameer Vermani (NTT) Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Thursday, November 19 2009 08: 30 - 10: 00 • Ad Hoc Group Meetings Submission Slide 24 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Thursday, November 19 2009 13: 30 - 15: 30 • • • Call Meeting to Order IPR and Attendance Recording Reminder Ad hoc Group Reports Presentations and motions Conference Calls Schedule Submission Slide 25 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)

November 2009 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -09/1119 r 2 Conference Calls Schedule • December Submission Slide 26 Osama Aboul-Magd (Samsung)