Tgj AM Meeting Minutes

March 18, 2004 doc.: 11-04-0415-00-000j

IEEE P802.11 Wireless LANs TGj AM Meeting Minutes

Date: March 18, 2004

Author: Robert Soranno JHU/APL Laurel, MD

Phone: 443-778-8947 Fax: 443-778-5928 e-Mail: [email protected]

Minutes

The meeting called to order at 8:05 AM by Sheung Li, Chairman. Sheung indicated that a number of people in the group are not attending the meetings and voting. Consequently, an inadequate number of people are voting on issues. A discussion followed amongst the members regarding dropping individuals from the group who have not attended the meeting for a long period of time.

A document was developed by the standard’s editor and loaded into the task group area that comprises all ballot comments to the latest version of the draft. The group addressed up to Comment 34 yesterday. The comments specify the areas affected and contain the information that should be added or replaced. A number of comments address using other 802.11 documents. In many cases, because this document addresses operations in Japan, they are not applicable and new requirements must be specified.

The ballot comment document is entered as 11-04-0042-000j-tgj-comment-resolution-1b64. The editor addressed the comments in order. The chairman recorded the group’s resolution to the comments in the appropriate column of the table.

Specific comments addressed in this meeting are as follows:

 The sensitivity was addressed in Comment # 250. No definite resolution was made in the meeting. It was decided to resume the discussion later.

 Comment #34 was next addressed. It was decided to put off discussion until a later time.

 Comment #38 required that the text be rewritten. Comment #39 was responded by siting the IEEE style guide and ASN.1 requriements. Comments #40 and #41 requested that the compound sentences be split into two sentences to improve readability.

 Comment #43 concerned the way in which a channel starting frequency is addressed. It is a MIB variable of type INTEGER. Comment #45 addressed the same information. Comment #46’s resolution was to remove the figures being addressed.

 Comments #5, 10, 33, 35, 36, 43, 46, 71, and 72 are tied to Issue A.

 Comment #47 addresses slot time. That has been tagged as “Issue B”. This also applies, to comments 12, 14-18, 22-25, and 47-65.

 Comment #66 is an editorial comment. “Issue C” has been assigned to this comment.

 For Comment #67, the recommended action is being taken.

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 Comment #68 treated in the same fashion as #4.

 Comment #69 requests to remove the term “BSS” in front of beacon. Since there is only one type of beacon, the comment was accepted.

 Comments #70 and #71 are being rejected as being technical. They are being addressed by “Issue A”.

 Comments #72 and 73 are also addressed by Issue A. They were rejected.

 It was brought up that Comments 13 and 27 have to be addressed together. Comment #27 was written because there is a sentence in the standard that should be removed. It points to TGe as a resolution, but that is felt to be an incorrect one. The impression is that TGe needs to make a correction to their standard. The resolution will be to include text describing how the time has been determined; as a function of round trip timing. It was noted that the base standard does not provide calculations to yield the times being referenced. 17.4.4 and 17.3.9.2 in the document also address these issues. It is felt that the formula in our document is correct, and is dependant on the coverage class.

Issue A’s resolution requires to change the coverage class table to eliminate the shortcut and show the sum of the numbers needed to arrive at the results.

Timing is assumed to be one-way in the base standard, but two-way must be considered in the “j” document. It is felt that the equation is wrong in the base standard, and must be fixed. Either we must get the base fixed, or modify the equation by using a two-way propagation time in “j”. The final decision was to change the aSlotTime for Clause 17 PHY, range <<300 meters in Table 22 from 13 usec to 16 usec. In that manner the base document equations do not have to be changed. Clause 17 PHY will be moved from the Comments Column to the “aSlotTime” Columns in Table 22. This change responds to Comment #52 from Andrew Myles. Clause J.17.3.8.6 will also be fixed accordingly.

A resolution was made that the editor resolve Issue A by the 1:30 meeting today.

Issue B requested that mechanisms be inserted in the base standard to bind regulations to Japan. Issue B applies to Comments 8, 9, 41 and 42 amongst others. However, to respond to these comments, we will make the starting frequency an integer, by indicating that the MIB value is in units of 500KHz. Additional clarification will be inserted in the document. Corrections need to be made in 802.11d, which has been incorporated into the new base document.

A country element is being included in .11j in Section 9.9. A regulatory annex will be constructed that must be referenced in Section 9.9 to point to tables by countries.

Break taken @ 10:00 AM.

The meeting resumed @ 10:30 AM with the editor, Peter Ecclesine again leading the addressing of ballot comments. Comment #3 was the first to be addressed. As before, all comment resolution was recorded in the appropriate column of the file for presentation at the plenary meeting.

Comments #19 –21 were next addressed. They noted a difference in the way in which countries are handled in 802.11e vs. j.

The comment resolution document as handled by the chairman was entered on the server as document –411 so that everyone could review comment resolution and approve or disapprove everything added so far.

The editor took a deadline to have all comments integrated into the document by the end of the month.

All “Issue A” comments were addressed and resolved.

For Comment # 75, a vote of 5 accept – 1 reject – 4 abstain vote was taken to accept the comment.

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All comments were resolved. Sheung uploaded the new comment resolution document as “0411/r1”.

A lunch recess was taken @ 12:20.

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