Liaison Report

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Project IEEE P802.15 Working Group for Wireless
Personal Area Networks (WPANs) Submission Title
802.11n liaison report to Working Group
802.15 Date Submitted 19 March 2004 Source
Jason Ellis Company Staccato
Communications Address 5893 Oberlin Dr., San
Diego, CA, USA Voice(858) 642 0111, FAX
[phone],E-Mailjason_at_staccatocommunicati
ons.com Re Abstract Liaison
report Purpose To inform the WG on progress in
802.11n during the March 2004 session Notice Thi
s document has been prepared to assist the IEEE
P802.15. It is offered as a basis for discussion
and is not binding on the contributing
individual(s) or organization(s). The material in
this document is subject to change in form and
content after further study. The contributor(s)
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be made publicly available by P802.15.
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Objectives Status

• FRCC
• Functional requirements document
• Previously approved as technical document
  obtaining 75 approval modifications made
• Comparison criteria document
• Near approval, majority of week resolving
  comments Approval expected in May
• Simulation Scenarios Document
• Comments not yet addressed Approval expected in
  May
• Simulation Methodology
• Everyone agreed that there was nothing to agree
  upon for standardization Status, abandoned
• Call For Proposals (CFP)
• Requires FRCC and Simulations Scenarios documents
  be approved
• Desire is to issue CFP in May
• Groups goal for 1st proposal presentations is
  September 04
• Numerous presentations offered to the committee

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Additional InformationSource 11-04-0271-01-000n-
tgn-march-opening-report
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Mon Tues (as amended)
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Wed Thu (as amended)
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New Documents as of Sunday March 14
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Key Documents

• Key TGn Documents as of March 04 Opening
• TGn Schedule 03- 0488 r0
• TGn Selection Procedure 03-0665 r9
• Selection Procedure Minutes 03-0740 r2
• Channel Models 03-0940 r2
• Usage Models 03-0802 r10 r13
• Functional Requirements 03-0813 r9
• FRCC Cumulative Minutes 03-0815 r6 r10
• Comparison Criteria 03-0814 r13 r17

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FRCC Presentations - March

• FRCC Report and Process for TGn
  Meeting Adrian Stephens 04-0261r1
• FRCC Template for Comments Adrian
  Stephens 04-0262r1
• FRCC Items
• Carrier Frequency/Symbol Clock Offset Proposal
  for TGn FRCC Colin Lanzl 04-0209r3
• Simple Model for Phase Noise Impairment for TGn
  CC Colin Lanzl 04-0224r0
• TGN FRCC Proposed new IM6 Colin Lanzl
  04-0229r0
• TGN FRCC Proposed new IM7 Antenna
  Configuration Colin Lanzl 04-0240r0
• Simulation effort required (FRCC) Bjorn
  Bjerke 04-0307r0
• Comments on TGn FRCC Doc 11-03-814r17
  George Vlantis 04-0302r2
• Multiple Channel Modes in a Simulation
  Scenario John Ketchum 04-0211r0
• Rate Adaptive Version of CC67 John
  Ketchum 04-0214r1

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Simulation Methodology Speakers

• Times in minutes shown in brackets
• Sim Methodologies
• 0269r0 - PHY Abstraction based on PER Prediction
  - Ketchum
• 0218r3 - Simulation Methodology - Bruno Jechoux
  45
• 0183r3 - Record and Playback method Hemanth
  Sampath 25
• 0304r1 -  PER prediction for 802.11 MAC
  simulation - John Sadowsky 30
• Others
• 0300r0 - A Comment on Black-Box adaptation for
  simulation methodology Adrian Stephens
• 0316r1 Comments on PHY Abstraction John
  Sadowsky 10
• 0303r0 The System Issues of rate adaptation
  Simulation methodology- Hujun Yin 15

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Technical Presentations Submitted for March
presentation may be delayed until May

• MIMO Ant OFDM Solutions for Enhanced
  PHY Alexandre Dias 04-0229r0
• Turbo Codes for IEEE 802.11n Marie-Helene
  Hamon 04-0243r0
• 20ms Effective Preamble MIMO OFDM Seigo
  Nakao 04-0249r1
• PCCC Turbo Codes for 802.11n Bart Van
  Poucke 04-0256r0
• Number of MIMO Multiplex for 11n Standards
  Yusuke Asai 04-0259r0
• Field Measurements of 2 by 2 MIMO
  Communications Babak Daneshrad 04-0263r0
• Limitation on Range Extension using Multiple
  Antennas Heejung Yu 04-0279r0
• Maximizing MAC Throughputs by Dynamic RTS-CTS
  Threshold Woo-Yong Choi 04-0312r0
• LDPC vs. Convolutional Codes Perf and Complexity
  Comparison Alexsandar Purkovic 04-0337r0
• Rate Feedback Schemes for MIMO-OFDM Stephan ten
  Brink 04-0372r0