IEEE P802.11 - TASK GROUP AX - GROUP INFORMATION UPDATE

Status of Project IEEE 802.11ax

High Efficiency (HE) Wireless LAN Task Group

Task Group Leadership

Chair	Osama Aboul-Magd (Huawei Technologies)
Vice Chair	Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
Vice Chair	Ron Porat (Broadcom)
Secretary	Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)
Technical Editor	Robert Stacy (Intel)

Background

In May 2013, the High Efficiency WLAN Study Group (HEW SG), a study group within IEEE 802.11 working group had started its activity to consider the improvement of spectrum efficiency to enhance the system throughput/area in high density scenarios of APs and/or STAs.

The study group was created based on the following straw poll and motion:

< Straw Poll >
Do you support starting a new study group called “high efficiency WLAN” to enhance 802.11 PHY and MAC in 2.4 and 5GHz with a focus on:

Improving spectrum efficiency and area throughput
Improving real world performance in indoor and outdoor deployments

in the presence of interfering sources, dense heterogeneous networks
in moderate to heavy user loaded APs

< Motion >
Request an approval by IEEE 802 LMSC to form an 802.11 Study Group to consider High-efficiency WLAN [as described in doc 11-13-0339r2] with the intent of creating a PAR and five criteria.

The HEW SG has successfully developed PAR and CSD documents and the project 802.11ax has started in May 2014.

Task Group Documents

The lastest version of the task group offical documents can be found here.

11-14-0165 Project Authorization Request (PAR)
11-14-0169 Criteria for Standard Developement (CSD)
11-14-0938 TGax Selection Procedure
11-14-0980 TGax Simulation Scenarios
11-14-0571 TGax Evaluation Methodology
11-14-0882 TGax Channel Models
11-14-1009 TGax Functional Requirements
11-15-0132 TGax Specification Framework

May 2017 — Daejeon, South Korea

TGax had 11 sessions during the week.
Six out of eleven sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hocs)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(PHY ad hocs)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hocs)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-17-0555-05, TGax May 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0749-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax May 2017 Deajeon Meeting Minutes
11-17-0832-00, TGax May 2017 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-17-0783-02, TGax May 2017 Meeting PHY Ad Hoc Agenda
11-17-0850-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax May 2017 PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-17-0786-02, TGax MAC Ad-hoc May 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0829-00, May 2017 TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MU ad hoc group

Submissions for the MU ad hoc was presented in the MAC ad hoc session.

TGax SR ad hoc group

11-17-0797-02, TGax Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc Group May 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0817-00, Minutes of the May 2017 meetings of the Spatial Reuse ad hoc group of IEEE Task Group AX (TGax)

Achievements

Work Completed

Continued with the comment resolution on draft D1.0.

Good progress during the ad hoc meeting and this meeting.
Resolutions of over 900 comments were approved.
The TG Editor is planning to produce draft D1.3 based on the resolved comments.

Discussed the need to produce a reference waveform generator similar to that for HT and VHT $#151 looking for volunteers.
No ad hoc meeting is planned for June/July.

Increase the frequency of the teleconferences during the week of June 26.

Technical Presentations

PHY — 19 submissions

11-17-0044, “NDP Feedback Report Design,” Ron Porat (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0232, “CR_clause 28.3.6,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0233, “CR_4905,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0288, “CRs on HE-SIG-B 28.3.10.8.4-5 part 1,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-17-0289, “CRs on HE-SIG-B terminologies on 28.3.10.8.1-3,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-17-0290, “CRs on TX specification,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-17-0465, “CR on TXTIME and PSDU_LENGTH,” Youhan Kim (Qualcomm)
11-17-0648, “CR on HE-SIG-A,” Ron Porat (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0650, “LB 225 - Cluase 18.2 Comment Resolution,” Osama Aboul-Magd (Huawei Technologies)
11-17-0678, “Discussion of CID 9021,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna Communications)
11-17-0690, “CRs on 28.3.10.7.3,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-17-0694, “CRs for packet extension in 28.3.12,” Sungeun Lee (Cypress)
11-17-0698, “CRS on Miscellaneous PHY CIDs,” Bin Tian (Qualcomm)
11-17-0714, “CSD update for 28.3.6,” Dongguk Lim (LG Electronics)
11-17-0734, “Doppler Discussions,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-17-0736, “HE Link Adaptation,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0769, “CRs for 20MHz-only STA - Part 3,” Sungeun Lee (Cypress)
11-17-0773, “Thoughts on Doppler Design in 802.11ax,” Lochan Verma (Qualcomm)
11-17-0774, “CID 8975 resolution,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)

MAC — 28 submissions

MU — 1 submissions

11-17-0751, “Comment Resolution on retransmission of OFDMA random access,” Yunbo Li (Huawei Technologies)

SR — 5 submissions

11-17-0633, “CR 27.9 spatial reuse updates,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0640, “CR 27.2 SRG updates,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0669, “CR for CID 4928,” Kaiying Lv (ZTE)
11-17-0724, “LBS2 various,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0748, “Supplementary instructions related to OBSS_PD spatial reuse Disallow / Prohibit,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)

Others (covered in the TGax full sessions) — 10 submissions

11-17-0112, “Link Transmit Power,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0123, “Link Transmit Power text,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom Limited)
11-17-0308, “BSS Load Information Element for 11ax,” Frank Hsu (MediaTek)
11-17-0336, “CR for CID 8555 - Virtual CS during UL MU CS,” Rojan Chitrakar (Panasonic)
11-17-0337, “Explanation of CR for CID 8555,” Rojan Chitrakar (Panasonic)
11-17-0361, “BSS Load Information in 802.11ax,” Ming Gan (Huawei Technologies)
11-17-0582, “OBSS_PD/TPC Examined,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-17-0665, “Proposed Resolutions to CID 6901 and 7690,” Osama Aboul-Magd (Huawei Technologies)
11-17-0707, “CR for CID 8555,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-17-0711, “CR for PHY-CCA.indication,” Rojan Chitrakar (Panasonic)

Timeline discussion

Current Timeline		Modified Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG	May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved	November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved
January 2016	Proposed TG draft	January 2016	Proposed TG draft
March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and Comment Collection started	March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and Comment Collection started
November 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot	November 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot
September 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG ~~Recirculation~~ Ballot	September 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG Letter Ballot
May 2018	Mandatory Draft Review	May 2018	Mandatory Draft Review
May 2018	Formation of Sponsor Ballot pool	May 2018	Formation of Sponsor Ballot pool
November 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot	November 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot
July 2019	RevCom submittal	July 2019	RevCom submittal

Goals for the July 2017 session

Continue with the resolution of comments on draft D1.0.

Teleconferences

TGax teleconferences are scheduled after the March 2017 session as follows:

Thursday	May 18^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	May 25^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	June 1^st, 2017 June 15^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	June 8^th, 2017 June 22^nd, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday	June 26^th, 2017 June 27^th, 2017 June 28^th, 2017 June 29^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET) 10:00 - 12:00 (ET) 20:00 - 22:00 (ET) 10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	July 20^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

March 2017 — Vancouver, BC, Canada

TGax had 10 sessions during the week.
Six out of ten sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

PM1

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MU/PHY ad hocs)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-17-0199-06, TGax March 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0454-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax March 2017 Vancouver Meeting Minutes
11-17-0512-00, TGax March 2017 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-17-0464-02, TGax Ad Hoc PHY Session Mar 2017 Pre-Meeting Agenda
11-17-0494-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax January 2017 Atlanta PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-17-0453-05, TGax MAC Ad-hoc March 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0155-01, March 2017 TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MU ad hoc group

11-17-0485-01, TGax MU Ad Hoc Agenda - March 2017
11-17-0495-00, March 2017 TGax MU Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax SR ad hoc group

11-17-0482-01, TGax SR Ad-hoc March 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0504-00, Spatial Reuse ad hoc group March 2017 minutes

Achievements

Work Completed

Continued with the comment resolution on draft D1.0.

Very good progress during the ad hoc meeting and this meeting.
The TG Editor is planning to generate a new revision of the TG draft (D1.2) and a new revision of the status of the comment resolution.

Spatial Reuse issues were discussed at length.

Some progress on spatial reuse.

Agreed to hold an ad hoc meeting in Seoul, Korea, May 3-5.

PHY ad hoc meeting will be only for one day, Friday May 5.

Technical Presentations

PHY — 11 submissions

11-17-0044, “NDP Feedback Report Design,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-17-0078, “RBW of 11ax,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0231, “CR_clause 28.3.5,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0234, “CR_clause 28.3.19_28.3.20,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0247, “CR HE PHY Introduction Part 4,” Lochan Verma (Qualcomm)
11-17-0261, “CR HE PHY Transmit Requirements HE_TRIG_PPDU Part 1,” Lochan Verma (Qualcomm)
11-17-0290, “CRs on TX specification,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-17-0345, “LB225 CR on TXOP_DURATION (28.2.2),” Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)
11-17-0398, “11ax Comment Resolutions for HE Preamble,” Yan Zhang (Marvell)
11-17-0400, “CRs for 20MHz-only STA - Part 1,” Sungeun Lee (Cypress)
11-17-0404, “CR on Pre-HE preamble transmission for trigger based PPDU,” Ross Jian Yu (Huawei)
11-17-0414, “CR on clause 28-3-11 HE PHY data field,” Tianyu Wu (MediaTek)
11-17-0436, “LB225 Comment Resolution of CID 7517,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)

MAC — 25 submissions

MU — 9 submissions

11-17-0271, “CR for 17.2.2.1 and 17.3.9.10,” Po-kai Huang (Intel)
11-17-0282, “11-17-xxxx-0x-00ax-lb225-mac-cr-number-of-ss-9-3-1-23,” Raja Banerjea (Qualcomm)
11-17-0302, “D1.0 MAC Resolution CR for 27.5.2.4,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-17-0325, “CR for 27.14.3 OPS,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-17-0335, “CR for CID 8142 - Random Access acronym,” Rojan Chitrakar (Panasonic)
11-17-0338, “CR for 27.5.2.4 - Physical CS CIDs,” Rojan Chitrakar (Panasonic)
11-17-0349, “LB225 CR for 25.5.2.4 Setting of CS Required Bit,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-17-0403, “CR-Subclause-27-5-3-MU-Cascading,” David Xun Yang (Huawei)
11-17-0442, “LB225, CR CIDs 3215, 3216,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)

SR — 10 submissions

11-16-1063, “Unified SR text DSC, ATPC, inter-BSS,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-1476, “CR-for section-25-9-spatial-reuse-operation-for-HE-PPDU,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0075, “SRP-based SR Summary and Update,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0163, “DSC as OBSS_PD,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-17-0267, “CR for 25.9.2.2 OBSS_PD Spatial reuse,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-17-0383, “Spatial Reuse Group Challenges,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-17-0452, “LB225, CR for CID3222,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-17-0455, “Some clarifications on current SR spec text,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-17-0458, “OBSS_PD: Threshold problems,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)
11-17-0459 (not available), Kaiying Lv (ZTE)

Others (covered in the TGax full sessions) — 5 submissions

11-17-0112, “Link Transmit Power,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0328, “Link Adaptation Feedback for Combating Interference,” Feng Jiang (InterDigital)
11-17-0334, “Proposed Text for Simulation Scenarios,” Frank Hsu (MediaTek)
11-17-0369, “Some CIDs related to 20MHz operation,” Guoqing Li (Apple)
11-17-0370, “Some CIDs related to 20MHz operation -- text,” Guoqing Li (Apple)

Timeline discussion

Current Timeline		Modified Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG	May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved	November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved
January 2016	Proposed TG draft	January 2016	Proposed TG draft
March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and Comment Collection started	March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and Comment Collection started
November 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot	November 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot
May 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot	September 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot
November 2017	Mandatory Draft Review	May 2018	Mandatory Draft Review
January 2018	Formstion of Sponsor Ballot pool	May 2018	Formation of Sponsor Ballot pool
March 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot	November 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot
December 2018	RevCom submittal	July 2019	RevCom submittal

Goals for the May 2017 session

Continue with the resolution of comments on draft D1.0.

Teleconferences

TGax teleconferences are scheduled after the March 2017 session as follows:

Thursday	March 23^rd, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	March 30^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 6^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 13^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 20^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 27^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	May 18^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	May 25^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

January 2017 — Atlanta, GA

TGax had 9 sessions during the week.
Three out of nine sessions were the ad hoc sessions of PHY and MAC ad hocs.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

PM1

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-16-1587-05, TGax January 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0126-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax January 2017 Atlanta Meeting Minutes
11-17-0179-00, TGax January 2017 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-17-0127-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc Jan 2017 Meeting Agenda
IEEE 802.11 TGax January 2017 Atlanta PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-17-0128-02, TGax MAC Ad Hoc January 2017 Meeting Agenda
11-17-0155-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax, MAC Ad hoc January 2017 TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

Achievements

Work Completed

The working group letter ballot #225 on the IEEE 802.11ax draft 1.0 was conducted from December 1st, 2016 to January 8th, 2017.
The 802.11ax draft 1.0 did *NOT* meet the requirement of >= 75% approval ratio.
Over 7300 comments received.

About 4700 out of 7300 comments are technical and general comments.
Assignment of comments is completed during the first session of the week.

The TG started discussing resolutions of comments submitted on draft D1.0.

Approximately 200 comments are resolved.

Spatial Reuse issues were discussed at length.

Slow progress on SRP-based SR.

Proposal to include simplified simulation models in the TG simulation scenarios document was discussed and passed straw poll.
Agreed to hold an ad hoc meeting in San Diego, from March 8th to 10th, 2017.
Vacant positions of ad hoc co-chairs are filled.

MAC	PHY	Multi-User (MU)	Spatial Reuse (SR)
Eric Wong (Apple)	Bo Sun (ZTE)	Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)	Laurent Cariou (Orange)
Reza Hedayat (Newracom)	Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)	Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)	Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
" open " → Chao-Chun Wang (MadiaTek)	Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)	" open " → David Xun Yang (Huawei)	Jae Seung Lee (ETRI)

Technical Presentations

PHY — 11 submissions

11-17-0044, “NDP Feedback Report Design,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-17-0047, “lb225-cr-28_4_3,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-17-0056, “CR HE PHY Capabilities_Part_1,” Lochan Verma (Qualcomm)
11-17-0060, “comment resolution for the CCA of preamble puncturing,” Yunbo Li (Huawei)
11-17-0072, “CID 6124 Resolution: Remove 2x LTF+08.us GI for UL Transmission,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-17-0077, “Proposed changes to Draft 1.0,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0078, “RBW of 11ax,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-17-0110, “Discussions on Signaling for UL HE MU PPDU,” John Son (Wilus)
11-17-0112, “Link Transmit Power,” Mattew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0113, “Steering Vector Sanctity,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0114, “CID-Trigger frame_Part-1,” Lochan Verma (Qualcomm)

MAC — 14 submissions

11-17-0037, “Comment resolution for clause 10.28,” Jarkko Kneckt (Apple)
11-17-0045, “lb225-cr-27_11_4,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-17-0046, “lb225-cr-27_6_4,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-17-0073, “CR for 27.5.2.7 NDP feedback report,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-17-0074, “Explanations for CR on 27.5.2.7,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-17-0082, “comment resolution for subclause 11.2.2.8,” Kaiying Lv (ZTE)
11-17-0085, “CR for 9.2.5.2 and 9.2.5.7,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-17-0088, “CR on 10.22.2.8 TXOP limits,” Woojin Ahn (Wilus)
11-17-0089, “Discussion for CR on 10.22.2.8 TXOP limits,” Woojin Ahn (Wilus)
11-17-0104, “Discussion on CR for CID 5066,” Dengyu Qiao (Huawei)
11-17-0115, “Comment resolution to clause 27.8,” Jarkko Kneckt (Apple)
11-17-0116, “TWT Schedule Bitmap,” Mattew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0117, “Broadcast TWT TIM,” Mattew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-17-0118, “Mandated Response MCS,” Mattew Fischer (Broadcom)

Others (covered in the TGax full sessions) — 13 submissions

11-16-0947, “Proposed text changes for OBSS_PD-based SR parameters,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-16-1063, “Unified SR text DSC, ATPC, inter-BSS,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-1363, “PAR Verification Through OFDMA,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-1476, “CR-for section-25-9-spatial-reuse-operation-for-HE-PPDU,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-16-1567, “Proposal for DSC, ATPC, Inter-BSS with Responses to Comments,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-17-0032, “Proposal on Simulation Scenario Document for 11ax PAR verification,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-17-0075, “SRP-based SR Summary and Update,” James Wang (MediaTek)
11-17-0076, “Multiple BSS Simulations for PAR Verification,” Frank Hsu (MediaTek)
11-17-0081, “consideration of spatial reuse,” Kaiying Lv (ZTE)
11-17-0090, “11ax PAR Verification using UL MU-MIMO,” Narendar Madhavan (Toshiba)
11-17-0095, “Proposal on Simulation Scenario Document for 11ax PAR verification(doc),” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-17-0099, “Additional background for CID 8908,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)
11-17-0102, “LB225 comments on Spatial Reuse,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)

Goals for the March 2017 session

Continue with the resolution of comments on draft D1.0.

Teleconferences

TGax teleconferences are scheduled after the January 2017 session as follows:

Thursday	February 2^nd, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	February 16^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	February 23^rd, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	March 2^nd, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	March 23^rd, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	March 30^th, 2017	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 6^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

November 2016 — San Antonio, TX

TGax had 12 sessions during the week.
Six out of twelve sessions were the ad hoc sessions.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full, ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

PM1

TGax
(full)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-16-1310-05, TGax November 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1466-01, IEEE 802.11 TGax November 2016 San Antonio Meeting Minutes
11-16-1546-00, TGax November 2016 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-16-1475-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc Nov 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1530-00, November 2016 San Antonio PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-16-1478-02, TGax MAC Ad Hoc November 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1480-01, November 2016 TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-16-1487-01, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda November 2016
11-16-1520-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax, MU Ad hoc September 2016 TGax Meeting Minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-16-1481-02, 802.11ax Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc Group Agenda
11-16-1569-00, TGax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting minutes - San Antonio, November 2016

Achievements

Work Completed

The TG completed the discussion of all the submissions received.
Completed resolution of most of the comments received on draft D0.1.
Passed a motion to prepare draft D1.0 and start 30-day WG LB.

Technical Presentations

PHY — 29 submissions

MAC — 36 submissions

Multi-User (MU) — 12 submissions

11-16-1353, “CC23 MAC CR Miscellaneous Part-2,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-16-1357, “CC0 Remaining CIDs on sounding,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-16-1361, “CC0- Remaining CIDs on MU Operation,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-16-1382, “MAC support of preamble puncture,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-1383, “Spec Text: MAC support of preamble puncture,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-1389, “Comment Resolution for CID 807,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-1390, “Spec Text: Revision for NAV Setting Rule under Immediate Response,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-1391, “Comment Resolution Random Access miscellaneous,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-16-1392, “Comment Resolution CID 2624 and 2738,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-16-1426, “DL/UL indication in MU-RTS,” Woojin Ahn (WILUS)
11-16-1441, “Consideration on Internal Contention Between Data and Trigger Frame,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-16-1457, “11ax D0.1 Comment Resolution for Clause 25.5.3,” David Xun Yang (Huawei)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 9 submissions

11-16-0947, “Proposed text changes for OBSS_PD-based SR parameters,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-16-1063, “Unified SR text DSC, ATPC, inter-BSS,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-1064, “Unified SR approach DSC, ATPC and Inter-BSS,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-1121, “Spec Texts: Spatial Reuse Indication for Trigger,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-1337, “CR on SR CCA rules clause 25.9,” Bo Sum (ZTE)
11-16-1403, “SR Backoff Procedure,” Jayh Hyunhee Park (LG Electronics)
11-16-1430, “Comment Resolution for SR on BSS Color,” Junichi Iwatani (NTT)
11-16-1440, “Proposed Resolutions to CID 2719,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-16-1450, “CR for CID 2492 section 25.9 spatial reuse operation,” Kaiying Lv (ZTE)

Others (covered in the TGax full sessions) — 4 submissions

11-16-0995, “Editor's report,” Robert Stacy (Intel)
11-16-1363, “11ax PAR Verification through OFDMA,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-1414, “Verifying 11ax’s PAR by UL MU-MIMO,” Jason Yuchen Guo (Huawei)
11-16-1435, “PAR Verification Simulation Followup,” James Yee (MediaTek)

Timeline

TG discussed the timeline. No changes since last update.

Current Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	First draft of the TG, SFD approved
January 2016	Proposed TG draft
March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and CC started
November 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot
May 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot
November 2017	Mandatory Draft Review
January 2018	Formation of Sponsor Ballot pool
March 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot
December 2018	RevCom submittal

Goals for the January 2017 session

Start Comment Resolutions on the IEEE 802.11ax draft D1.0.

Teleconferences

Weekly teleconferences are scheduled after the November 2016 session.

Thursday	December 1^st, 2016	21:00 - 23:00 (ET)
Thursday	December 8^th, 2016	21:00 - 23:00 (ET)
Thursday	December 15^th, 2016	21:00 - 23:00 (ET)
Tuesday	January 5^th, 2017	11:00 - 13:00 (ET)
Thursday	January 12^th, 2017	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

September 2016 — Warsaw, Poland

The TGax had 11 sessions during the week.
Six out of eleven sessions were assigned to the ad hoc group sessions.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-16-1077-06, TGax September 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1231-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax September 2016 Warsaw Meeting Minutes
11-16-1284-00, TGax September 2016 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-16-1246-06, TGax PHY Ad Hoc Sep 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1276-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax September 2016 Warsaw PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-16-1247-02, TGax MAC Ad Hoc September 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1252-01, IEEE 802.11 TGax, MAC Ad hoc September 2016 Warsaw TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-16-1244-01, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda September 2016
11-16-1275-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax, MU Ad hoc September 2016 TGax Meeting Minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-16-1245-02, TGax Spatial Reuse Ad-hoc Agenda September 2016 Meeting
11-16-1300-00, TGax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting minutes — Warsaw, September 2016

Achievements

Work Completed

TG received 90 submissions.

Number of submissions: PHY/MAC/MU/SR/TG = 28/43/12/9/6.

The TG editor is planning to have draft revision D0.5 ready based on resolved comments.

Technical Presentations

PHY — 28 submissions

MAC — 43 submissions

Multi-User (MU) — 12 submissions

11-16-0773, “Comment Resolution Section 25.6 HE Sounding,” Raja Banerjea (Qualcomm)
11-16-0929, “CR - UL MU Operation,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-16-1152, “DL OFDMA Ack rule for uplink trigger based PPDU,” Ming Gan (Huawei)
11-16-1158, “Comment resolution on OFDMA random access procedure,” Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-1162, “Comment Resolution on Retransmission of OFDMA Random Access,” Yunbo Li (Huawei)
11-16-1163, “Concluding OFDMA M-BA transmission,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-1177, “comment-resolution-TXOP-truncation,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-16-1199, “Proposed text changes for DL OFDMA Acknowledge rule for trigger based PPDU,” Ming Gan (Huawei)
11-16-1222, “Comment Resolution on UL OFDMA Random Access,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-16-1224, “Random Access Parameter Set (RAPS) element,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-16-1239, “Trigger Frame MU BAR part 1,” Raja Banerjea (Qualcomm)
11-16-1241, “Trigger Frame MU BAR part 2,” Raja Banerjea (Qualcomm)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 9 submissions

11-16-0945, “Clarification for OBSS_PD-based SR parameters,” Matthew Fischer (Broadcom)
11-16-0947, “Proposed text changes for OBSS_PD-based SR parameters,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-16-1064, “Unified SR approach DSC, ATPC and Inter-BSS,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-1155, “SR Comment Resolution for CID994,” Kaiying Lv (ZTE) - not available
11-16-1161, “Simulation-based evaluation of OBSS_PD-based SR default parameters,” Tanguy Ropitault (NIST)
11-16-1178, “comment-resolution-SR-RSSI,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-16-1216, “SR Field SRP Table for HE-Trigger-Based PPDU,” James Wang (MediaTek)
11-16-1223, “CR for Section 25.9.2 OBSS_PD Spatial reuse,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-16-1225, “Heads We Win, Tails We Don't Lose: Proposals for Dynamic CCA,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)

Others (covered in the TGax full session) — 6 submissions

11-15-1095, “OFDMA performance in 11ax,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-1143, “11ax PAR Verification,” Paul Cheng (MediaTek)
11-16-1159, “Summary of Mandatory or Optional Features of 802.11ax,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-16-1166, “Meeting PAR requirements with UL OFDMA,” Sriram Venkateswaran (Broadcom)
11-16-1198, “Preliminary 11ax PAR Verification,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-16-1219, “Considerations on CR for 2665 and 2715,” Jing Ma (NICT)

Timeline discussion

Current Timeline		Modified Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG	May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved	November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved
January 2016	Proposed TG draft	January 2016	Proposed TG draft
March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and CC started	March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and CC started
September 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot	November 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot
March 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot	May 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot
November 2017	Mandatory Draft Review and formstion of Sponsor Ballot pool	January 2018	Mandatory Draft Review and formation of Sponsor Ballot pool
March 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot	March 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot
December 2018	RevCom submittal	December 2018	RevCom submittal

Goals for the November 2016 session

Continue with comment resolutions.
Prepare draft 1.0 and start WG letter ballot.

Teleconferences

TGax teleconferences are scheduled after the September 2016 session as follows.

Thursday	September 29^th, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	October 20^th and 27^th, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	October 30^th, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	November 17^th, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

July 2016 — San Diego, CA

The TGax had 11 sessions during the week.
Six out of eleven sessions were assigned to the ad hoc group sessions.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full, ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-16-0779-06, TGax July 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0967-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax July 2016 San Diego Meeting Minutes
11-16-1051-00, TGax July 2016 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-16-1007-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc July 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1040-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax July 2016 San Diego PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-16-0997-01, TGax MAC Ad Hoc July 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-1000-02, July 2016 San Diego TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-16-1012-00, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda July 2016
11-16-1027-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax, MU Ad hoc July 2016 Meeting Minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-16-1016-01, 802.11ax Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc Group Agenda
11-16-1022-00, TGax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting minutes

Achievements

Work Completed

TGax received about 90 submissions.

Number of submissions: PHY/MAC/MU/SR/TG = 26/34/12/10/8.

A long list of submissions are yet to be considered.

Approved the resolutions of about 230 comments discussed during telecons.

Exact count of resolved CIDs will be published by the Editor.
The TG editor is planning to have draft revision D0.3 ready based on resolved comments.

Technical Presentations

PHY — 26 submissions

MAC — 34 submissions

Multi-User (MU) — 12 submissions

11-16-0866, “Comment Resolution of Section 26.3.13 MU-MIMO,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-16-0875, “CR for the section 10.3.2.8a CS Condition to Respond CTS,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-16-0876, “CR for the section 25.5.2.4 UL MU CS CCA and CS Required Bit,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-16-0880, “UL MU Transmission Rules - EDCA backoff,” Jayh Park (LG Electronics)
11-16-0885, “Comment Resolution on UL MU CS NAV Consideration,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-0886, “Comment Resolution for some UL MU CS TBD,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-0887, “Spec Text for MU-RTS restriction on HE MU PPDU,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-0926, “Soliciting UL_MU_ACK,” Raja Banerjea (Qualcomm)
11-16-0929, “CR - UL MU Operation,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-16-0930, “CR - DL MU Operation,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-16-0938, “Comment Resolution for Sub-clause 25.10.4,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-16-0958, “UL OFDMA for Unassociated STAs,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Institute of Tech.)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 10 submissions

11-16-0879, “Comment resolution on SR for VHT PPDUs,” Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-0889, “Comment Resolution for Spatial Reuse (Intra BSS detection),” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-16-0901, “Clarification of SR Fields in HE Trigger Based PPDU,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-16-0902, “Proposed Text Changes for SR Fields in HE Trigger-Based PPDU,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-16-0905, “SR Fields Clarification,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-16-0919, “Discussions on SR Fields in HE Trigger-based PPDU,” Geonjung Ko (Wilus Institute)
11-16-0310, “DSC Proposal Text,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-0945, “Clarifications for OBSS_PD-based SR parameters,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-16-0947, “Proposed text changes for OBSS_PD-based SR parameters,” Laurent Cariou (Intel)
11-16-0957, “Comment Resolutions on OBSS_PD Conditions in 25.9.3,” James Wang (MediaTek)

Others (covered in the TGax full sessions) — 8 submissions

11-15-1095, “OFDMA Performance in 11ax,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-0835, “EIFS,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-16-0870, “Conclusing MAC Trigger Padding,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-0907, “20MHz HE devices,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-16-0909, “CR - proposed text on 20 MHz devices,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-16-0949, “MAC trigger frame padding follow up,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-0965, “On High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) TG PAR Scope,” Osama Aboul-Magd (Huawei Technologies)

Timeline

Current Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved
January 2016	Proposed TG draft
March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and CC started
September 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot
March 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot
July 2017	MDR (Mandatory Draft Review)
November 2017	Formstion of Sponsor Ballot pool
March 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot
December 2018	RevCom submittal

Goals for the September 2016 session

Continue with Comment Resolutions.

Teleconferences

TGax teleconferences are scheduled after the July 2016 session.

Thursday	August 4^th, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET) (approved during the May 2016 session)
Thursday	August 11^th and 25^th, 2016, September 1^st, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	August 18^th, 2016, September 1^st and 22^nd, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

May 2016 — Waikoloa, HI

The TGax had 10 sessions during the week.
Six out of ten sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

AM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC+SR
ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC+SR
ad hoc)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC+SR
ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC+SR
ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-16-0512-04, TGax May 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0686-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax May 2016 Waikoloa Meeting Minutes
11-16-0739-00, TGax May 2016 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-16-0693-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc May 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0755-00, May 2016 Waikoloa PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC and Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-16-0698-04, TGax MAC and Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc Agenda May 2016 Meeting
11-16-0701-00, Combined Spatial Reuse and MAC ad hoc group meeting minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-16-0697-02, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda May 2016
11-16-0716-00, May 2016 Waikoloa TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting minutes

Achievements

Work Completed

TGax received about 70 submissions.

Numbers of submissions: PHY/MAC/MUSR/TG = 33/18/9/3/6.

Agreed to terminate the Specification Framework process. The frame of reference is Draft D0.1.

Future submissions shall bring text to continue developing the TG draft.
The TG Technical Editor is planning to generate draft D0.2 based on outcome of this meeting.

Approved the resolutions of about 200 comments, most of them addressing the PHY clause.
Revisited and accepted a new modified timeline.

Technical Presentations

PHY — 33 submissions

MAC — 18 submissions

11-16-0583, “Backoff Procedure Handling Upon TF Reception,” Yu Wang (Ericsson)
11-16-0584, “Need of SDU Fragmentation to Reduce Padding Ratio in UL-OFDMA Transmission,” Yu Wang (Ericsson)
11-16-0588, “Channel State Estimation based Bidirectional Initialized Random Access,” Bo Li (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ.)
11-16-0590, “Multi-BSS Association for Edge Users’ Throughput Improvements,” Mao Yang (Northwestern Polytechnical Univ.)
11-16-0616, “BlockAck generation and selection rules,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-16-0627, “ROM Recovery Rules,” Jayh Hyunhee Park (LG Electronics)
11-16-0628, “Buffer Status Report in HE Control field,” Jayh Hyunhee Park (LG Electronics)
11-16-0640, “BSS Color Collision,” Geonjung Ko (Wilus Institute)
11-16-0641, “Regarding HE fragmentation,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0643, “HE Control Scheduling,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0644, “SS Allocation in Trigger,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0645, “MU Minimum MPDU Start Spacing,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0646, “HE Beamforming Feedback,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0657, “In-device Multi-radio Coexistence and UL MU operation,” Robert Stacy (Intel)
11-16-0673, “Multi-User EDCA,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0674, “EIFS excess problem of Acknowledgement for UL MU procedure,” Hanseul Hon (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0675, “comment resolution for CID2383,” Yonggang Fang (ZTE)
11-16-0684, “Channel Access Efficiency,” Evgeny Khorov (IITP)

Multi-User (MU) — 9 submissions

11-16-0582, “Random Access RU Allocation in the Trigger Frame,” Evgeny Khorov (IITP)
11-16-0591, “Issues related to OCW management,” Patrice Nezou (Canon)
11-16-0592, “Follow up on Issue related to unused UL OFDMA RUs,” Stephane Baron (Canon)
11-16-0648, “MU-RTS/CTS PHY Format,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-16-0661, “Adaptive Random Access UL OFDMA,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
11-16-0662, “Further consideration on channel access rule to facilitate MU transmission opportunity,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-16-0664, “Consideration on backoff procedure for UL MU transmission,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-16-0665, “Some Notes on Interference Alignment for Downlink Multi-User MIMO,” Dzevdan Kapetanovic (Ericsson)
11-16-0667, “Signaling of Multi-TID Aggregation Limit,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 3 submissions

11-16-0581, “Proposed changes to SR clause,” Soma Tayamon (Ericsson)
11-16-0589, “Fractional-Backoff Procedure and Dynamic CCA,” Bo Li (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
11-16-0647, “Consideration of Spatial Reuse for Trigger Frame,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)

Others (covered in TGax full sessions) — 6 submissions

11-16-0571, “QoS Handling of Trigger Frame,” Yu Wang (Ericsson)
11-16-0597, “TG ax Indoor Enterprise Scenarios, Color, DSC and TPC,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-16-0604, “Simulation-based evaluation of DSC in enterprise scenario,” Tanguy Ropitault (NIST)
11-16-0609, “HE NDPA frame format,” Ross Jian Yu (Huawei)
11-16-0612, “Mandatory/Optional Issues for 802.11ax,” Sameer Vermani (Qualcomm)
11-16/0629, “Box 5 Calibration Results,” Marik Hsiao (MediaTek)

Timeline

Current Timeline		Modified Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG	May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved	November 2014	First draft of the TG SFD approved
January 2016	Proposed TG draft	January 2016	Proposed TG draft
March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and CC started	March 2016	Draft 0.1 was approved and CC started
July 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot	September 2016	Issue Draft 1.0 and start WG Letter Ballot
March 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot	March 2017	Draft 2.0 and WG recirculation ballot
		July 2017	MDR (Mandatory Draft Review)
		November 2017	Formation of Sponsor Ballot pool
January 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot	March 2018	Initial Sponsor Ballot
		December 2018	RevCom submittal

Goals for the July 2016 session

Continue with comment resolutions.

Teleconferences

Weekly teleconferences are planned after the May 2016 session.

Thursday	June 2^nd, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	June 16^th, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	June 23^rd, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	June 30^th, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	July 7^th, 2016,	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	July 14^th, 2016	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	August 4^th, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

March 2016 — Macau

The TGax had 9 sessions during the week.
Five out of nine sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(full)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

PM2

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-16-0235-07, TGax March 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0415-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax March 2016 Macau Meeting Minutes
11-16-0475-00, TGax March 2016 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-16-0421-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc March 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0509-00, TGax March 2016 Macau PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-16-0427-04, TGax MAC Ad Hoc March 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0439-01, March 2016 Macau TGax MAC ad hoc meeting minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-16-0419-02, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda March 2016
11-16-0466-00, TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting minutes March 2016

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-16-0422-02, TGax SR Ad Hoc March 2016 Agenda
11-16-0537-00, TGax SR Ad Hoc group March 2016 minutes

Achievements

Passed a number of motions affecting all aspects of the TG Specification Framework

PHY — 22 motions passed.
MAC — 17 motions passed.
MU — 9 motions passed.
SR — 2 motions passes.

TG Documents

Latest revision of the Specification Framework is available at;

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-16-00ax-spec-framework.docx

Other TG documents

Simulation Scenarios: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0980-16-00ax-simulation-scenarios.docx
Evaluation Methodology: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0571-12-00ax-evaluation-methodology.docx
Channel Models: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0882-04-00ax-tgax-channel-model-document.docx
Functional Requirements: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-1009-02-00ax-proposed-802-11ax-functional-requirements.doc

Technical Presentations

PHY — 12 submissions

11-15-1354, “SIGA fields and Bitwidths,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-16-0203, “Signalling Support for Full Bandwidth MU-MIMO Compressed SIG-B Mode,” Lei Huang (Panasonic)
11-16-0319, “I-Q Decoupled OFDM: A Solution To I/Q Imbalance,” Shouxing Simon Qu (Blackberry)
11-16-0335, “HE-STF sequences for 160/80+80MHz,” Eunsung Park (LG Electronics)
11-16-0343, “Spectral Mask Discussion,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-16-0344, “PHY Padding Related Issues,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-16-0346, “11ax Pilot Sequence,” Bin Tian (Qualcomm)
11-16-0349, “HE-SIG-B Compression Mode,” Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)
11-16-0367, “Power Scaling of L-LTF and L-STF,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-16-0389, “Sounding Design,” Sriram Venkateswaran (Broadcom)
11-16-0395, “Preamble transmission for Uplink OFDMA,” Ming Gan (Huawei)
11-16/0397, “HE-SIG-B Signaling Discussions,” John Son (WILUS Institute)

MAC — 18 submissions

11-16-0297, “Results for beacon collisions,” Evgeny Khorov (IITP RAS)
11-16-0345, “Simultaneous NAK for MU GCR-BA,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0347, “Fragmentation for MU frames-Follow up on parameters,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-16-0352, “Considerations on MU initial link setup,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0353, “MU-RTS/CTS for TWT Protection,” Hanseul Hong (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0358, “Maximal A-MPDU Size,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0359, “Management ACK,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0361, “Ack Policy of UL MU frame,” Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-0362, “Multi-TID Aggregation Limit,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-16-0365, “Multi-STA BA Design,” Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital)
11-16-0368, “MAC padding options for legacy trigger frame,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-0369, “M-BA aggregated trigger frame,” Zhou Lan (Broadcom)
11-16-0377, “Sounding Sequences Clarifications,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-16-0378, “Extended BA Bitmap,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-16-0383, “RU Signaling in Trigger Frame,” Yunbo Li (Huawei)
11-16-0396, “Issues on BSS Color Bits Collision,” Geonjung Ko (WILUS Institute)
11-16-0399, “Considerations on Trigger Frame for Random Access Procedure,” Evgeny Khorov (IITP RAS)
11-16-0404, “BlockAck Bitmap,” Dengyu Qiao (Huawei)

Multi-User (MU) — 6 submissions

11-16-0331, “Power Control for Multi-User Transmission in 802.11ax,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-16-0333, “Issue related to unused UL OFDMA RUs,” Stephane Baron (Canon)
11-16-0340, “Random Access UL MU Resource Allocation and Indication,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
11-16-0371, “Further consideration for MU-RTS/CTS,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-16-0379, “Trigger Frame Format,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-16-0413, “Power Control for UL MU,” Arjun Bharadwaj (Qualcomm)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 7 submissions

11-16-0212, “Enterprise Scenario DSC and Color,” Graham Smith (SR Technplogies)
11-16-0310, “DSC Proposed Text,” Graham Smith (SR Technplogies)
11-16-0350, “Enterprise Scenario TPC and DSC,” Graham Smith (SR Technplogies)
11-16-0360, “Simulation results of spatial reuse with various MCSs,” Junichi Iwatani (NTT)
11-16-0382, “Discussion on Spatial Reuse Operations in 11ax,” Yunbo Li (Huawei)
11-16-0403, “Spatial Re-Use with Adaptive CCA and TPC Simulation,” Frank Hsu (MediaTek)
11-16-0414, “Adjustment Rules for Adaptive CCA and TPC,” James Wang (MediaTek)

Others (covered in the TGax full session) — 5 submissions

11-15-1095, “OFDMA Performance in 11ax,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-0066, “Views on UL MU Features,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-16-0355, “Snapshot of Residential Use 2016,” Carol Ansley (ARRIS Group)
11-16-0364, “AID Assign Rules Based on BSS Color and HE Operation Element,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-16-0394, “Achieving High Efficiency in Medium Access via Roster Mode,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)

Draft Specification

< TG Motion >
Move to accept document 11-16/0024r1 as the TG draft specification D0.1, and start a 21 day comment collection period.

The submission is available at: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/16/11-16-0024-01-00ax-proposed-draft-specification.docx

Moved by Robert Stacey, Second by Simone Merlin.
Result: Y/N/A = 75/0/5, motion passes.

Goals for the May 2016 session

Comment Resolution.
Technical presentations.
Revisit the timeline based on the number of comments received.

Teleconferences

TGax teleconferences are planned before the May 2016 session.

Thursday	April 14^th, 2016,	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 21^st, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 28^th, 2016,	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	May 5^th, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

January 2016 — Atlanta, GA

The TGax had 10 sessions during the week.
Four out of ten sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-15-1516-03, TGax January 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0096-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax January 2016 Atlanta Meeting Minutes
11-16-0187-00, TGax January 2016 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-16-0108-02, TGax PHY Ad Hoc January 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0119-00, TGax January 2016 Atlanta PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-16-0109-02, TGax MAC Ad Hoc January 2016 Meeting Agenda
11-16-0110-00, Jan 2016 Atlanta TGax MAC ad hoc meeting minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-16-0147-01, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda January 2016
11-16-0150-00, January 2016 Atlanta TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting minutes

Achievements

Passed a number of motions affecting all aspects of the TG Specification Framework

PHY — 30 motions passed.
MAC — 9 motions passed.
MU — 7 motions passed.

TG Documents

Latest revision (rev. 15) of the Specification Framework is available at;

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-15-00ax-spec-framework.docx

Other TG documents

Simulation Scenarios: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0980-16-00ax-simulation-scenarios.docx
Evaluation Methodology: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0571-12-00ax-evaluation-methodology.docx
Channel Models: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0882-04-00ax-tgax-channel-model-document.docx
Functional Requirements: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-1009-02-00ax-proposed-802-11ax-functional-requirements.doc

Technical Presentations

PHY — 22 submissions

11-16-0030, “Maximum Tone Grouping Size for 802.11ax Feedback with MU-MIMO,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-16-0033, “1x HE-LTF for ULMUMIMO,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-16-0034, “Beamforming with HE-LTF Compression,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-16-0036, “CRC Generation for HE-SIG,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-16-0037, “Continuous Puncturing for HE-SIGB Encoding,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-16-0038, “Sequence for 1x LTF,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-16-0039, “RU Allocation in SIG-B,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-16-0040, “Issues with Compressed SIG-B Mode,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-16-0041, “Link Adaptation for HE WLAN,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-16-0044, “MCS Levels and TX EVM Requirement for 1024 QAM,” Eunsung Park (LG Electronics)
11-16-0045, “Flexible Wider Bandwidth Transmission,” John Son (WILUS)
11-16-0046, “Content for the extra tones in LSIG and RLSIG,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-16-0047, “Discussion on the HE Extended Range SU PPDU,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-16-0052, “Remaining HE-LTF Sequence Design,” Le Liu (Huawei)
11-16-0053, “Requirements for UL MU Transmissions,” Arjun Bharadwaj (Qualcomm)
11-16-0056, “On QPSK DCM Modulation and LDPC Tone Mapper for DCM,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-16-0071, “Packet Extension Follow Up,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-16-0079, “Allocation sizes for BCC in OFDMA,” Ken Taniguchi (Toshiba)
11-16-0080, “1x/2x/4x OFDM Symbol in HE SU PPDU with BCC,” Heejung Yu (Yeungnam Univ./NEWRACOM)
11-16-0088, “Ng for Compressed Beamforming feedback,” Sriram Venkateswaran (Broadcom)
11-16-0089, “Single Stream Pilots in UL MU MIMO,” Sriram Venkateswaran (Broadcom)
11-16-0104, “Rate Matching for HE-SIG-B,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)

MAC — 12 submissions

11-16-0015, “Explicit Block Ack Request in DL MU PPDU,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-16-0017, “Beacon Collision Avoidance,” Evgeny Khorov (IITP)
11-16-0018, “TDMA for Eliminating Hidden Station Effect in Dense Networks,” Evgeny Khorov (IITP)
11-16-0028, “Follow Up for Multi-STA BA for SU Transmissions,” Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital)
11-16-0029, “TXOP Truncation Enhancement,” Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital)
11-16-0042, “BSS Color Settings for a Multiple BSSID Set,” Geonjung Ko (WILUS)
11-16-0050, “Fragmentation for MU frames-Follow up on acks,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-16-0051, “Response Give Trigger Type,” David Xun Yang (Huawei)
11-16-0068, “BSS Color and Multiple BSSID,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0069, “Multi-TID A-MPDU in MU Transmission,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0087, “NAV cancellation issues on MU protection,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0102, “High Efficiency Medium Access via Rosters,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)

Multi-User (MU) — 9 submissions

11-16-0031, “Proposed UL MU CS Rules,” Lei Wang (Marvell)
11-16-0048, “Protection using MU RTS/CTS,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-16-0054, “UL MU CCA Response,” Kaiying Lv (ZTE)
11-16-0057, “Indication for UL MU Carrier Sensing,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-16-0065, “Duration/ID field in UL-MU,” Tomo Adachi (Toshiba)
11-16-0066, “Views on UL-MU Features,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-16-0067, “MAC Padding in Trigger Frame,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-16-0085, “Congestion control for UL MU random access,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-16-0091, “Regarding HE NDPA frame for DL Sounding Sequence,” Narendar Madhavan (Toshiba)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 1 submission

11-16-0060, “Recipient-aware Spatial Reuse,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)

Others (presented in the TGax full session) — 4 submissions

11-15-1095, “OFDMA Performance in 11ax,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-16-0024, “Proposed draft specification,” Robert Stacy (Intel)
11-16-0043, “Clarification of SFD Texts,” John Son (WILUS)
11-16-0059, “Non-contiguous Channel Bonding in 11ax,” Yunbo Li (Huawei)

Draft Specification

Document 11-16-0024-00 was submitted by the TG Editor and it includes a “draft” draft specification.
The submission was reviewed by the TG Editor and is available on mentor to be reviewed by TG members.

Plan for Progressing TG Draft

Approve the TG draft specification during the March 2016 meeting.

Draft 0.1

Start a comment collection (CC) for 30 days on draft 0.1 - Ends some time in April.
Comment resolution (May and July)
Draft 1.0 in July 2016 and start WG LB.

Goals for the March 2016 session

Discuss Proposals affecting the TG Specification Framework document
Approve D0.1 of the TG Draft
Approve a 30-day Comment Collection Process.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the March 2016 session.

Thursday	February 4^th, 2016,	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	February 18^th, 2016	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	March 3^rd, 2016,	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

November 2015 — Dallas, TX

The TGax originally planned 10 sessions during the week.
One session was added during the WG mid-week plenary session.
Five out of eleven sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full, ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

PM3

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-15-1232-04, TGax November 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-1368-01, IEEE 802.11 TGax November 2015 Dallas Meeting Minutes
11-15-1457-00, TGax November 2015 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-15-1385-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc November 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-1442-00, November 2015 Dallas TGax PHY Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-15-1382-03, TGax MAC Ad Hoc November 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-1414-00, Nov 2015 Dallas TGax MAC ad hoc meeting minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-15-1418-02, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda November 2015
11-15-1423-01, November 2015 Dallas TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-15-1403-06, TGax SR Ad Hoc November 2015 Agenda
11-15-1421-01, Minutes of the IEEE 802.11ax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting - Dallas, November 2015

Achievements

Passed a number of motions affecting all aspects of the TG Specification Framework

PHY — 33 motions.
MAC — 16 motions.
Multi-User (MU) — 12 motions.
Spatial Reuse (SR) — 1 motion.

TG Documents

Latest revision of the Specification Framework is available

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-10-00ax-spec-framework.docx

Approved new revisions of the TGax Simulation Scenario and Evaluation Methodology documents.

Other documents

Technical Presentations

PHY — 27 submissions

MAC — 14 submissions

11-15-1265, “RTS/CTS for UL DL OFDMA Control,” Cheeha Kim (POSTECH)
11-15-1278, “HE MU Acknowledgment Procedure,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-15-1300, “DL MU transmission sequence,” Yong Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-1318, “Fragmentation for MU frames-Follow up,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-15-1319, “Scheduled Trigger frames-Follow up,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-15-1330, “A method of transmitting Multi-STA Block frame,” Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)
11-15-1341, “Reception Status of Frames Transmitted in Random Access RUs,” Tomoko Adachi (Toshiba)
11-15-1344, “Trigger Frame Format,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-15-1345, “Trigger type specific information,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-15-1346, “Ack Policy for UL MU Ack transmission,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-15-1351, “Rate MCS Selection Rules for M-BA and DL OFDMA BA,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-15-1352, “broadcast STAID in HE SIG B,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-15-1355, “Considerations for TDLS transmission in 11ax,” Yingpei Lin (Huawei)
11-15-1359, “System Performance Evaluation of 802.11ae,” Yu Wang (Ericsson)

Multi-User (MU) — 12 submissions

11-15-1280, “Traffic priority for random Multi User Uplink OFDMA,” Stephane Baron (Canon)
11-15-1301, “NAV Rule for UL MU Response,” Yingpei Lin (Huawei)
11-15-1312, “MU BAR Frame Format,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-1314, “I/Q Imbalance Impact to TGax OFDMA Uplink Reception,” Rui Yang (InterDigital)
11-15-1325, “MU-RTS/CTS Follow Up,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-15-1326, “NAV Consideration for UL MU Response Follow Up,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-15-1328, “Scheduling information for UL OFDMA Acknowledgement,”Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-15-1340, “NDP Announcement for HE Sequence,” Narendar Madhavan (Toshiba)
11-15-1364, “Signaling Trigger Information for STAs in 11ax,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-1369, “Random access based buffer status report,” Woojin Ahn (Yunsei Univ.)
11-15-1370, “UL OFDMA Random Access Control,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-15-1374, “Consideration for protecting cascading MU DL/UL transmission with MU RTS/CTS,” Jing Ma (NICT)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 9 submissions

11-15-1259, “Use of TG ax Scenarios for Spatial Reuse,” Graham Smith (SR Tecnologies)
11-15-1284, “Simulation results for spatial reuse in 11ax,” Jinmin Kim (LG Electronics)
11-15-1313, “Considerations for Spatial Reuse,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-1316, “DSC calibration results with NS-3,” M. Shahwaiz Afaqui (T.U. Catalonia)
11-15-1336, “BSS Color Field Size Measurements,” Chuck Lukaszewski (Aruba-HP)
11-15-1337, “Secondary Channel CCA of HE STA,” John Son (Willus Institute)
11-15-1338, “Improving Spatial Reuse During OBSS UL MU Procedure,” Geonjung Ko (Willus Institute)
11-15-1348, “Multiple NAVs for Spatial Reuse,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)
11-15-1427, “Drivers of the dynamic CCA adaptation,” Eduard Garcia-Villegas (Technical Univ. of Catalonia)

Others (presented in the TGax full session) — 8 submissions

11-15-1288, “An issue of wider bandwidth operation at real denser environment,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI R&D Labs)
11-15-1302, “System Level Simulator Evaluation with/without Capture Effect,” Vida Ferdowsi (Newracom)
11-15-1360, “Implications of wrap-around for TGax Scenario 3 and Scenario 4 - follow-up,” Marcin Filo (Univ. of Surrey)
11-15-1361, “Energy consumption with Scheduled PSP,” Dmitry Akhmetov (Intel)
11-15-1362, “On TGax Scenario 4 channel model - follow-up,” Marcin Filo (Univ. of Surrey)
11-15-1363, “Regulatory Landscape for Narrowband Transmissions in 11ax,” Ilan Sutskover (Intel)
11-15-1373, “Updated Box5 Calibration Results,” Narendar Madhavan (Toshiba)
11-15-1375, “11ax Support for IoT - Requirements and Technological Implications,” Shimo Shilo (Huawei)

Goals for the January 2016 session

Continue to advance TG documents based on submissions.

Priority to the TG Specification Framework document.

TG timeline indicates draft D0.1 will be available in January 2016.
Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

One teleconference is planned before the January 2016 session.

Thursday

December 10^th, 2015

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

September 2015 — Bangkok, Thailand

The TGax originally planned to have 10 sessions during the week.
However, two more sessions are added due to a large number of contributions.
Six out of twelve sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-15-0987-06, TGax September 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-1093-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax September 2015 Bangkok Meeting Minutes
11-15-1190-00, TGax September 2015 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-15-1125-04, TGax PHY Ad Hoc September 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-1205-00, September 2015 Bangkok TGax PHY Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-15-1126-03, TGax MAC Ad Hoc September 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-1130-02, Sep 2015 Bangkok TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-15-1141-02, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda September 2015
11-15-1160-00, September 2015 Bangkok TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-15-1143-03, TGax Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc September 2015 Agenda
11-15-1206-00, Minutes of the IEEE 802.11ax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting - Bangkok, September 2015

Achievements

Passed a number of motions affecting all aspects of the TG Specification Framework

PHY — 29 motions.
MAC — 12 motions.
Multi-User (MU) — 15 motions.
Spatial Reuse (SR) — 4 motion.

TG Documents

Latest revision of the Specification Framework is available

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-09-00ax-spec-framework.docx

Approved new revisions of the TGax Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology documents.

Other documents

Technical Presentations

PHY — 24 submissions

11-15-0579, “Preamble Design and Auto-detection,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0580, “11ax Coding Discussion,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0602, “HE-LTF squence for UL MU-MIMO,” Xiaogang Chen (Intel)
11-15-0810, “HE PHY Padding and Packet Extension,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0823, “Preamble Design and Auto-Detection for 11ax,” Sungho Moon (Newracom)
11-15-0826, ”HE-SIG-A Transmission for Range Extension,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-15-0853, “Extensible Preamble Format Design,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyutech)
11-15-1031, “DL MU Signaling,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI)
11-15-1051, “HE NDP frame for sounding,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-1059, “SIG-B Encoding Structure Part II,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-15-1066, “HE-SIG-B Contents,” Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)
11-15-1068, “Reliable Transmission Scheme for HE-SIG-B and Data,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-15-1070, “1024 QAM Proposal,” Eunsung Park (LG Electronics)
11-15-1071, “Tone Grouping Factors and NDP format for 11ax,” Sameer Vermani (Qualcomm)
11-15-1075, “Number of BSS Color bits,” Junichi Iwatani (NTT)
11-15-1077, “HE-SIG-A Content,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-15-1088, “LTF Design for Uplink MU-MIMO,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-1089, “Considerations on PHY Padding and Packet Extension in 11ax,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-15-1091, “Considerations on Range Extension with SIG-A Repetition,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-15-1092, “Support of 1x/2x/4x OFDM Symbol in HE SU PPDU,” Heejung Yu (Yeungnam Univ.)
11-15-1106, “SIG-B Structure,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-1111, “SIG-B Resource Unit Allocation Coding,” Amin Jafarian (Newracom)
11-15-1119, “Discussions on HE SIG-A Structure,” John Son (Wilus Institute)
11-15-1122, “Identifiers in HE PPDUs for power saving,” Alfed Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)

MAC — 18 submissions

11-15-1013, “802.11ae & 802.11ax,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-1014, “Multiple BSSID Element,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-1015, “Proxy ARB in 802.11ax,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-1033, “Data field in HE PPDU,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-15-1034, “Notification of Operating Mode Changes,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-15-1044, “Further Study of 11ax Multicast,” Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony)
11-15-1052, “Bandwidth for UL MU transmission,“ Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-1060, “Receive Operating Mode Indication for Power Save,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-15-1063, “11ax Channel access procedure,” Chao-Chun Wang (MediaTek)
11-15-1067, “MU TXOP truncation,” Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)
11-15-1096, “Recovery Procedures in Cascading Sequences,” John Son (Wilus Institute)
11-15-1098, “ACK/BA frame for UL MU under cascading structure,” Narendar Madhavan (Toshiba)
11-15-1114, “Airtime Analysis of EDCA,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)
11-15-1115, “High Efficiency in Accessing the Medium,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)
11-15-1116, “Trigger Frame Channel Access,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-15-1120, “Buffer Status Report,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-15-1121, “HE A-Control field,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-15-1137, “Triggered OFDMA Random Access Observations,” Russell Huang (MediaTek)

Multi-User (MU) — 15 submissions

11-15-1043, “Overall Protocol of UL MU BA for Multicast Transmission,” Kazuyuki Sakoda (Sony)
11-15-1047, “RU selection process upon TF-R reception,” Stephane Baron (Canon)
11-15-1053, “Multiuser Block ACK Request (MU-BAR),” Guoqing Li (Apple)
11-15-1057, “Multiple Resource Unit Allocation for TGax OFDMA,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-15-1062, “NAV Consideration for UL MU Response to Trigger frame,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-15-1065, “11ax uplink Multi-TID aggregation,” Chao-Chun Wang (MediaTek)
11-15-1086, “Consideration on multi-STA BA frame indication,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-15-1097, “Reducing Channel Sounding Protocol Overhead for 11ax,” Narendar Madhavan (Toshiba)
11-15-1102, “Fragmentation with MU Operation,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-1103, “DL Sounding Sequence with UL MU Feedback,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-1105, “UL OFDMA-based Random Access Procedure,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-1107, “Power Save with Random Access,” Chittarata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-1117, “Regarding UL MU protection,” Woojin Ahn (Yonei Univ.)
11-15-1123, “Acknowledgement to DL MU,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-15-1129, “Feedback overhead in DL-MU-MIMO,” Filippo Tosato (Toshiba)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 12 submissions

11-15-1045, “Dynamic CCA control and TPC Simulation Results with SS1-SS3,” Takeshi Itagaki (Sony)
11-15-1058, “CCA consideration for UL MU transmission,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-15-1069, “Adaptive CCA and TPC,” James Wang (MediaTek)
11-15-1081, “Further consideration on receive behaviour based on the cascading structure and the BSS color scheme,” Jing Ma (NICT)
11-15-1082, “Analysis of BSS and ESS Structure During Concurrent SR Transmissions,” Chuck Lukaszewski (Aruba/HP)
11-15-1083, “Cost/Benefit Analysis of SR Techniques,” Chuck Lukaszewski (Aruba/HP)
11-15-1101, “DSC/DCCA Calibration with TGax Agreed Scenarios,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-15-1104, “TXOP Considerations for Spatial Reuse,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-1109, “OBSS NAV and PD Threshold Rule for Spatial Reuse,” Rossi Jun Luo (Huawei)
11-15-1110, “BSS TXOP,” Amin Jafarian (Newracom)
11-15-1118, “Discussions on Spatial Reuse Enhancement,” Geonjung Ko (WILUS)
11-15-1138, “To DSC or not to DSC,” Filip Mestanov (Ericsson)

Simulation, calibration, and other submissions — 12 submissions

11-15-1039, “Spatial Reuse Measurements,” Chuck Lukaszewski (Aruba Networks, a HP company)
11-15-1046, “MAC calibration results,” Stephane Baron (Canon)
11-15-1048, “On TGax Scenario 4 channel model,” Marcin Filo (Univ. of Surrey)
11-15-1049, “Implications of wrap-around for TGax Scenario 3 and Scenario 4,” Marcin Filo (Univ. of Surrey)
11-15-1056, “Clarifying Link Level Simulator Assumptions,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-15-1087, “MU BFee Interference channel feedback,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)
11-15-1095, “OFDMA performance in 11ax,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-15-1099, “Power Save Simulation Results,” Hyeyoung Choi (LG Electronics)
11-15-1100, “Discussion on Deep and Shallow Sleep States,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-1113, “Box5 Calibration results,” Vida Ferdowsi (Newracom)
11-15-1134, “11ax Support for IoT,” Shimi Shilo (Huawei)
11-15-1135, “Results for SS6 calibration case for single BSS and OBSS,” Esa Tuomaala (Nokia)

Goals for the November 2015 session

Continue to advance TG documents based on submissions.

Priority to the TG Specification Framework document.

Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are scheduled after the November 2015 session.

Thursday

October 15^th, 2015

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

July 2015 — Waikoloa, HI

TGax originally planned to have nine sessions during the week.
Two more sessions were added during the mid-week plenary session (marked red).
Four out of eleven sessions were ad hoc sessions.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full, ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM1

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(full)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-15-0735-05, TGax July 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0884-00, IEEE 802.11 TGax July 2015 Waikoloa Meeting Minutes
11-15-0963-00, TGax July 2015 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-15-0898-03, TGax PHY Ad Hoc July 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0913-00, July 2015 Hawaii TGax PHY Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-15-0888-02, TGax MAC Ad Hoc July 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-922-01, July 2015 Hawaii TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-15-0899-02, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda July 2015
11-15-0949-01, July 2015 Hawaii TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-15-0911-01, TGax Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc July 2015 Agenda
11-15-0971-01, Minutes of the IEEE 802.11ax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting - Hawaii, July 2015

Achievements

Passed a number of PHY, MAC and MU motions affecting the TGax Specification Framework

PHY — SIG-A, SIG-B, Pilots, etc.
MAC — Trigger frame, etc.
Multi-User (MU) — Trigger frame for random access, MU CTS, etc.

TG Documents

Latest revision of the Specification Framework (rev. 7) is available.

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-07-00ax-spec-framework.docx

Approved new revisions of the TGax Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology documents.

Other documents

Technical Presentations

PHY — 23 submissions

11-15-0579, “preamble design and autodetection,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0580, “11ax coding discussion,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0602, “HE-LTF sequence for UL MU-MIMO,” Qinghua Li (Intel)
11-15-0805, “SIG-B field for HEW PPDU,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-0810, “HE PHY Padding and Packet Extension,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0812, “Pilot Design for Data Section,” Sameer Vermani (Qualcomm)
11-15-0813, “CP Indication for UL MU Transmission,” Zhigang Rong (Huawei)
11-15-0816, “Interleaver and Tone Mapper for OFDMA,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-15-0817, “P Matrix for HE-LTF,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-15-0819, “11ax OFDMA Tone Plan Leftover Tones and Pilot Structure,” Bin Tian (Qualcomm)
11-15-0821, “HE SIG-B Structure,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-15-0822, “SIG-A Structure in 11ax Preamble,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-15-0823, “Preamble Design and Auto-Detection for 11ax,” Sungho Moon (Newracom)
11-15-0824, “Pilot Design for 11ax Downlink Transmissions,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-15-0826, “HE-SIG-A transmission for range extension,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-15-0827, “Considerations on HE-SIG-A and B,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-15-0832, “Performance evaluation of SU/MU MIMO in OFDMA,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-15-0845, “LTF Design for Uplink MU-MIMO,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-0853, “Extensible Preamble Format Design,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
11-15-0865, “Discussion of ACI performance and ACI requirements for IEEE 802.11ax,” Leif Wilhelmsson (Ericsson AB)
11-15-0868, “Impact of Frequency Selective Scheduling Feedback for OFDMA,” Hakan Persson (Ericsson)
11-15-0873, “SIG-B Encoding Structure,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-15-0887, “Efficient padding for last OFDM symbol,” Heejung Yu (Newracom)

MAC — 14 submissions

11-15-0615, “DL OFDMA Bandwidth,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-15-0803, “Frame Collision Information Management,” Peng Shao (NEC Communication Systems)
11-15-0831, “Broadcast and Unicast (Trigger) in DL MU,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-15-0841, “Cascading Structure,” David Xun Yang (Huawei Technologies)
11-15-0851, “HE Trigger Frame Format,” John Son (WILUS Institute)
11-15-0856, “Compressed Uplink Trigger Frame,” Vida Ferdowsi (Newracom)
11-15-0871, “Efficiency enhancement for 802.11ax,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-0872, “802.11ai and 802.11ax,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-0874, “Minimal data rates management frame transmissions in 2.4 GHz,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-0876, “Duration and MAC Padding for MU PPDU,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-15-0877, “Trigger Frame Format,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-15-0878, “Issues on Trigger Frame Retransmission,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-15-0880, “Scheduled Trigger frames,” Alfred Asterjadhi (Qualcomm)
11-15-0914, “Enlarged minimal contention window size,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)

Multi-User (MU) — 13 submissions

11-15-0800, “Multiplexing of Acknowledgements for Multicast Transmission,” Yusuke Tanaka (Sony)
11-15-0806, “Protection for MU transmission,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-0818, “Further Analysis of Feedback and Frequency Selective Scheduling (FSS) for TGax OFDMA,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital Communication)
11-15-0829, “Uplink ACK and BA Multiplexing,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-0843, “UL MU OFDMA analysis,” Yonggang Fang (ZTE)
11-15-0852, “Transmission Interval of Trigger Frames,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
11-15-0854, “DL OFDMA Signalling,” Tomoko Adachi (Toshiba)
11-15-0855, “How to collect STAs’ Tx demands for UL MU,” Tomoko Adachi (Toshiba)
11-15-0858, “MU BFee Interference channel feedback,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)
11-15-0859, “A mechanism for incremental updates to MU precoding,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)
11-15-0867, “MU-RTS/CTS for DL MU,” Po-kai Huang (Intel)
11-15-0875, “Random Access with Trigger Frames using OFDMA,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-0881, “Regarding buffer status of UL-STAs in UL-OFDMA,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 8 submissions

11-15-0797, “NAV Operation for Spatial Reuse,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-15-0801, “DCCA/DSC Reference Simulation Results,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-15-0804, “Outdoor Enterprise Scenario and DSC,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-15-0807, “DSC Summary,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-15-0811, “Topics for Consideration for Spatial Reuse,” Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital)
11-15-0882, “DSC leveraging uplink RTS/CTS control,” M. Shahwaiz Afaqui (Technical University of Catalonia)
11-15-0883, “Follow Up Discussion on The Receiver Behavior,” Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)
11-15-0886, “DSC Calibration Results,” Chinghwa Yu (MediaTek)

Simulation, calibration, and others — 13 submissions

11-15-0754, “WLAN Packet traffic and efficiency analysis,” Jim Lansford (CSR)
11-15-0781, “Summary of Power Save Calibration Results,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-15-0787, “Power Save Calibration Results,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-15-0788, “Box 1 and Box 2 calibration results,” Takeshi Itagaki (Sony)
11-15-0789, “Proposed Changes to Evaluation Methodologies,” Allan Jones (Activision)
11-15-0802, “Box5 Calibration Results of SS6,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-15-0814, “Simulation Results for Box5 Calibration,” Ke Yao (ZTE)
11-15-0833, “Calibration results for PSP and UAPSD for 20, 40 and 80MHz bands,” Dmitry Akhmetov (Intel)
11-15-0680, “Reference Box5 Calibration Assumptions and Parameters,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-15-0849, “Simulation Results for Box5 Calibration,” Rongzhen Yang (Intel)
11-15-0869, “OFDMA and VoIP Capacity,” Hakan Persson (Ericsson)
11-15-0870, “802.11ax in 2.4 GHz,” Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-0885, “Box 5 Calibration Results,” ChingHwa Yu (MediaTek)

Goals for the September 2015 session

Continue to advance TG documents based on submissions.

Priority to the TG Specification Framework document.

Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the September 2015 meeting.

Thursday

August 20^th, 2015

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

May 2015 — Vancouver, BC, Canada

The TGax had 10 sessions during the week.
Six out of ten sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(full)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

PM1

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(full)

Main documents

The meeting agenda and minutes of the TGax and its subgroups, and the TGax closing report can be found here.

TGax

11-15-0500-08, TGax May 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0622-00, TGax May 2015 Vancouver Meeting Minutes
11-15-0692-01, TGax May 2015 Closing Report

TGax PHY ad hoc group

11-15-0640-04, TGax PHY Ad Hoc May 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0651-02, May 2015 Vancouver TGax PHY Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax MAC ad hoc group

11-15-0599-02, TGax MAC Ad Hoc May 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0637-00, May 2015 Vancouver TGax MAC Ad hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Multi-User (MU) ad hoc group

11-15-0645-01, TGax MU Ad-hoc Agenda May 2015
11-15-0679-00, May 2015 Vancouver TGax MU Ad Hoc Meeting Minutes

TGax Spatial Reuse (SR) ad hoc group

11-15-0650-02, TGax Spatial Reuse Ad Hoc May 2015 Agenda
11-15-0662-01, Minutes of the IEEE 802.11ax Spatial Reuse ad hoc group meeting - Vancouver, May 2015

Achievements

Passed a number of PHY, MAC and MU motions affecting the TGax Specification Framework

PHY — SIG-A, SIG-B, Pilots, etc.
MAC — Trigger frame, etc.
Multi-User (MU) — Trigger frame for random access, MU CTS, etc.

TG Documents

Latest revision of the Specification Framework (rev. 7) is available.

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/15/11-15-0132-07-00ax-spec-framework.docx

Approved new revisions of the TGax Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology documents.

Other documents

Technical Presentations

PHY — 14 submissions

11-15-0550, “L-preamble issues for UL-OFDMA,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-15-0553, “Enhancing Performance of Hybrid-ARQ with Linear Constellation Precoding,” Muhammad Mehboob Fareed (King Abdullah Univ. of Science and Technology)
11-15-0569, “Performance of 1x, 2x, and 4x HE-LTF,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-15-0572, “Inefficiency of 256-FFT per 20MHz,” Heejung Yu (Yeungnam Univ./Newracom)
11-15-0574, “SIG structure for UL PPDU,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-0575, “Preamble Structure in 802.11ax,” Yujin Noh (Newracom)
11-15-0577, “Pilot Design for 11ax,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-0579, “Preamble design and auto-detection,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0580, “11ax coding discussion,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0584, “Considerations on LTF Sequence Design,” Sungho Moon (Newracom)
11-15-0600, “Non Uniform Constellations for 1024QAM,” Daniel Schneider (Sony)
11-15-0602, “HE-LTF sequence for UL MU-MIMO,” Qinghua Li (Intel)
11-15-0621, “Design Principles for HE Preamble,” John Son (WILUS)
11-15-0381, “HE-STF Proposal,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)

MAC — 6 submissions

11-15-0567, “Multi-STA BA for SU Transmissions,” Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital)
11-15-0604, “Random Access with Trigger Frames using OFDMA,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-0611, “Multi-STA Block ACK Protection,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-15-0615, “UL OFDMA Bandwidth,” Liwen Chu (Marvell)
11-15-0617, “Duration and MAC Padding for UL MU PPDUs,” Gang Ding (Qualcomm)
11-15-0626, “Further consideration for Multi-STA Block ACK frame,” Jeongki Kim (LG)

Multi-User (MU) — 7 submissions

11-15-0378, “Channel Sensing in UL OFDMA,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-0568, “Frequency Selective Scheduling (FSS) for TGax OFDMA,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-15-0586, “Frequency Diversity Options in OFDMA,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-0587, “Uplink ACK and BA Multiplexing,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-0597, “Beamformed HE PPDU,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-15-0608, “Regarding trigger frame in UL MU,” Tomo Adachi (Toshiba)
11-15-0612, “Multi Channel availability for UL-OFDMA,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 5 submissions

11-15-0543, “Simulation Scenario changes for Frequency Re-use,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-15-0544, “Proposed text additions to 14/980 for frequency re-use,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-15-0548, “Enterprise Scenario and DSC,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-15-0588, “CCA revisited II,” Amin Jafarian (Newracom)
11-15-0595, “Discussion on The Receiver Behavior for CCAC/DSC with BSS Color,” Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)

Simulation, calibration, and others — 18 submissions

11-15-0551, “OBSS Preamble Detection,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-15-0552, “IEEE 802.11 performance in dense, cellular-like, outdoor deployments,” Richard Edgar (Imagination Technologies)
11-15-0330, “OFDMA Numerology and Structure,” Sharnaz Azizi (Intel)
11-15-0583, “OBSS Preamble Error Probability,” Jiyong Pan (Huawei)
11-15-0590, “Traffic Model Updates to Evaluation Methodology,” Phil Barber (Huawei)
11-15-0674, “Joint submission for Box 5 Calibration,” Suhwook Kin (LG Electronics)
11-15-0581, “LSP Correlation Clarification for Scenario 4,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-0582, “Clarifications to Box 2 MIMO simulation calibrations,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-0373, “Mixed traffic configurations on simulation scenarios,” Yingpei Lin (Huawei)

Not presented since the contents of this submission was merged into 11-15-0590.

11-15-0610, “Simulation Results for Box 5 Calibration,” Vida Ferdowsi (Newracom)
11-15-0613, “Box 5 Calibration Result,” Chinghwa Yu (MediaTek)
11-15-0623, “TGax simulation scenario “Box 5” - calibration results,” Guido Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-15-0316, “Power Save Calibrations,” Hyeyoung Choi (LG Electronic)
11-15-0564, “802.11ax Calibration and Modeling Adjacent Channel Interference,” Naveen Kakani (CSR)
11-15-0576, “Latency and Power Consumption in State Transitions,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-0592, “More Power Save Calibration Results,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-15-0598, “U-APSD Enhancement for HE,” Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia)
11-15-0603, “Calibration Results for PSP and U-APSD,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)

Goals for the July 2015 session

Continue to advance TG documents based on submissions.

Expectation is more submissions affecting the TG specification framework document will be considered.

Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the July 2015 session.

Thursday

June 18^th, 2015

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

March 2015 — Berlin, Germany

TGax originally planned nine sessions during the week.
However, one more session was added (Wednesday PM2).

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

AM1

TGax
(full, ad hoc)

TGax
(MU ad hoc)

TGax
(SR ad hoc)

TGax
(full)

AM2

TGax
(PHY ad hoc)

TGax
(MAC ad hoc)

PM1

TGax
(full)

PM2

TGax
(full)

PM3

TGax
(full)

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and closing report of the TGax can be found here.

11-15-0235-08, TGax March 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0309-01, TGax March 2015 Berlin Meeting Minutes
11-15-0465-00, TGax March 2015 Closing Report

Achievements

Passed a number of PHY, MAC and MU motions affecting the TGax Specification Framework

PHY — LTF and SIG-B design.
MAC — Multi-User Block Ack and Multi-User procedures.
Multi-User (MU) — Ack multiplexing.
etc.

TG Documents

Approved new revisions of the TGax Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology documents.

Other documents

Technical Presentations

PHY — 12 submissions

11-15-0305, “Effective Subcarrier Assignment for DL-OFDMA,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI R&D Laboratories)
11-15-0330, “OFDMA Numerology and Structure,” Shahrnaz Azizi (Intel Corporation)
11-15-0344, “SIG field design principle for 11ax,” Young Hoon Kwon (Newracom)
11-15-0349, “HE-LTF Proposal,” Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-15-0358, “Numerology for 11ax,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-0360, “Preamble Auto-Detection for 802.11ax,” Sungho Moon (NEWRACOM)
11-15-0364, “11ax Preamble design: training sequence,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)
11-15-0375, “Minimum Resource Granularity in OFDMA,” John Son (WILUS Institute)
11-15-0378, “Channel Sensing in UL OFDMA,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-0380, “Discussion on OFDMA scheduling for 802.11ax,” Le Liu (Huawei Technologies)
11-15-0381, “HE-STF Proposal,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-15-0383, “Impact of number of sub-channels in OFDMA,” Leif Wilhelmsson (Ericsson)

MAC — 6 submissions

11-15-0320, “GCR-BA with Measurement Report Performance in OBSS,” Yuichi Morioka (SONY)
11-15-0336, “MAC Overhead Analysis of MU Transmissions,” Xiaofei WANG (InterDigital)
11-15-0362, “Beacon Transmission Issues,” Yonggang Fang (ZTE)
11-15-0365, “UL MU Procedure,” Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-15-0366, “Multi-STA BA,” Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-15-0376, “UL-MU MAC Throughput Under Non-Full Buffer Traffic,” Tatsumi Uwai (Radrix Co. Ltd)

Multi-User (MU) — 9 submissions

11-15-0331, “Uplink Multi-User MIMO Protocol Design,” Yongho Seok (NEWRACOM)
11-15-0333, “Throughput Comparison of Some Multi-user Schemes in 802.11ax,” Kome Oteri (InterDigital)
11-15-0336, “MAC Overhead Analysis of MU Transmissions,” Xiaofei WANG (InterDigital)
11-15-0353, “OFDMA Non-contiguous Channel Utilization,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei univ.)
11-15-0354, “Bandwidth granularity on UL-OFDMA data allocation,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-15-0363, “UL MU Synchronization Requirements,” Yonggang Fang (ZTE)
11-15-0377, “Considerations on UL MU Resource Scheduling,” Leonardo Lanante (Kyutech)
11-15-0379, “DL OFDMA Performance and ACK Aggregation,” Reza Hedayat (Newracom)
11-15-0384, “Discussion on DL-OFDMA Sub-channel Indication Method,” Yu Cai (Lenovo)

Spatial Reuse (SR) — 7 submissions

11-15-0300, “Potential of Modified Signal Detection Thresholds,” Gustav Wikstrom (Ericsson AB)
11-15-0318, “CCA Regime Evaluation Revisited,” Amin Jafarian (Newracom Inc.)
11-15-0319, “Impact of TPC coupled to DSC for legacy unfairness issue,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-15-0338, “Discussions on the Definition of CCA Threshold,” Akira Kishida (NTT)
11-15-0367, “OBSS preamble detection,” Gwen Barriac (Qualcomm)
11-15-0371, “Proposal and simulatin based evaluation of DSC-AP Algorithm,” Eduard Garcia-Villegas (UPC)
11-15-0374, “Further Considerations on Legacy Fairness with Enhanced CCA,” John Son (WILUS Institute)

Simulation, calibration, and others — 24 submissions

11-14-1392, “Simulation results for Box-5 calibration,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-14-1434, “SLS Box4 Calibration Results,” Russell Huang (MediaTek Inc.)
11-15-0053, “Box5 Results of 11ac SS6,” Jiyong Pang ‘Huawei)
11-15-0072, “U-APSD power saving calibration results,” Yanchun Li (Huawei)
11-15-0125, “Box 1 and Box 2 Calibration Results,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-15-0304, “Evaluating Power Save Performance,” Joonsuk Kim (Apple)
11-15-0306, “Power Save Mode Calibration Results,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-15-0307, “MAC calibration results for Test 4,” Ke Yao (ZTE Corp.)
11-15-0308, “Simulation results for box 5,” Ke Yao (ZTE Corp.)
11-15-0314, “Sleep States in IEEE 802.11ax Simulation Scenarios,” Chittabrata Ghosh (Intel)
11-15-0316, “Power Save Calibration,” Hyeyoung Choi (LG)
11-15-0326, “U-APSD Enhancements for HE,” Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia)
11-15-0327, “Microsleep for HE STA,” Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia)
11-15-0343, “In Situ Frame Size Measurements,” Chuck Lukaszewski (Aruba Networks)
11-15-0351, “Empirical Measurements of Channel Degradation Under Load,” Chuck Lukaszewski (Aruba Networks)
11-15-0357, “Scenario 1 CCA Simulation,” Knut Odman (Broadcom Corporation)
11-15-0359, “Clarification of MIMO Box2 calibration,” Jaehyun Ahn (Newracom)
11-15-0368, “Box 5 results for Single BSS Calibration Case,” Esa Tuomaala (Nokia)
11-15-0369, “MAC calibration test 4 simulation results,” Enrico-Henrik Rantala (Nokia)
11-15-0370, “MAC Calibration Results,” Guoqing Li (Apple)
11-15-0372, “Corrections on Reference Traffic Profile for Scenario 2 in Simulation Scenarios Document,” Yingpei Lin (Huawei)
11-15-0373, “Mixed traffic configurations on simulation scenarios,” Yingpei Lin (Huawei)
11-15-0382, “MAC calibration test 4 simulation results,” Yanchun Li (Huawei)
11-15-0441, “Proposed text to TGax Simulation Scenarios MAC test 4,” Enrico-Henrik Rantala (Nokia)

Goals for the May 2015 session

Continue to advance TG documents based on submissions.

Expectation is more submissions affecting the TG specification framework document will be considered.

Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the May 2015 session.

Thursday	April 9^th, 2015	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	April 30^th, 2015	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

January 2015 — Atlanta, GA

The TGax planned to have 9 sessions during the week.
One session (Thursday PM2) was cancelled upon completion of the business.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1			TGax (full)	TGax (full)
AM2	TGax (full)	TGax (full)
PM1	TGax (full)	TGax (full)	TGax (full)	TGax (Cancelled)
PM2
PM3	TGax (full)

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and closing report of the TGax can be found here.

11-14-1578-06, TGax January 2015 Meeting Agenda
11-15-0090-00, TGax January 2015 Atlanta Meeting Minutes
11-15-0186-00, TGax January 2015 Closing Report

Achievements

TG Structure

MAC	PHY	Multi-User (MU)	Spatial Reuse (SR)
Eric Wong (Apple)	Bo Sun (ZTE)	Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)	Laurent Cariou (Orange)
Reza Hedayat (Newracom)	Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)	Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)	Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
Brian Hart (Cisco)	Yakun Sun (Marvell)	Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)	Jae Seung Lee (ETRI)

TG Documents

Passed a number of motions affecting the TG specification Framework.
Approved new revisions of Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology TG documents.

TGax Simularion Scenarios (11-14-0980-06)
TGax Evaluation Methodology (11-14-0571-07)

Technical Presentations

DSC and CCA

11-15-0025, “DSC and Roaming,” Graham Smith (SR Technologies)
11-15-0027, “Simulation Based Evaluation DSC in residential scenario,” M. Shahwaiz Afaqui (UPC)
11-15-0045, “Performance Analysis of BSS Color and DSC,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-15-0050, “Modeling components impacting throughput gain from CCAT adjustment,” Yu Wang (Ericsson AB)
11-15-0085, “Legacy Fairness Issues of Enhanced CCA,” John Son (WILUS Institute)
11-15-0105, “Dynamic CCA Management,” Sean Coffey (RealTek)

OFDMA

11-15-0034, “DL-OFDMA Map Frame,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-15-0066, “Downlink OFDMA Protocol Design,” Yongho Seok (Newracom)
11-15-0079, “OFDM Numerology for 11ax,” Daewon Lee (Newracom)
11-15-0091, “UL-OFDMA Procedure in IEEE 802.11ax,” Woojin Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)
11-15-0092, “DL-OFDMA Procedure in IEEE 802.11ax,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ.)

Multi-User (MU)

11-15-0010, “draft for integrated UL DL MU MIMO Frame Format,” Tae-Yoon Kim (Korea Univ.) - Not presented
11-15-0029, “Discussion on integrated UL/DL MU-MIMO,” Tae-Yoon Kim (Korea Univ.) - Not presented
11-15-0040, “Discussion on integrated UL-DL MU-MIMO-MAC,” TaeYoon Kim (Korea Univ.)
11-15-0064, “Consideration on UL-MU overheads,” Tomoko Adachi (Toshiba)
11-15-0086, “Uplink MU Transmission and Legacy Coexistence,” Reza Hedayat (NEWRACOM)
11-15-0089, “MAC Efficiency Gain of Uplink Multi-user Transmission,” Leonardo Lanante Jr (Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)

MAC

11-15-0035, “Scalable Channel Utilization,” Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI R&D Laboratories)
11-15-0037, “Structural Format Change,” Kyonggi University
11-15-0046, “11aa GCR-BA Performance in OBSS,” Yuichi Morioka (Sony)
11-15-0059, “Uplink RTS/CTS Control,” Sigurd Schelstraete (Quantenna)

PHY

11-15-0048, “Non-Uniform Constellations for Higher Order QAMs,” Daniel Schneider (Sony)
11-15-0068, “Support of outdoor environments,” Young Hoon Kwon (NEWRACOM)
11-15-0079, “OFDM Numerology for 11ax,” Daewon Lee (NEWRACOM)
11-15-0081, “Considerations on 11ax Auto-detection Methods,” Jaeyoung Song (KAIST)
11-15-0082, “Considerations on 11ax OFDMA Frequency Granularity,” Young-bin Kim (KAIST)
11-15-0097, “Performance Analysis of Frequency Selective Scheduling,” Ningbo Zhang (BUPT)
11-15-0099, “Payload Symbol Size for 11ax,” Sriram Venkateswaran (Broadcom)
11-15-0101, “Preamble structure for 11ax system,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)

Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology

11-14-1342, “MAC Calibration Results,” Igor Kim (ETRI)
11-14-1343, “Multicast Scenarios for MAC Calibration,” Igor Kim (ETRI)
11-14-1392, “Simulation Results for Box-5 Calibration,” Suhwook Kim (LGE)
11-14-1523, “Offline Discussion Minutes of SLS Calibration,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-14-1590, “Multi-wall penetration loss model for HEW system level simulation,” Kejun Zhao et al. (National Engineering Research Center for Broadband Networks & Applications)
11-14-1597, “PHY abstraction and performance for outdoor channel models,” Kejun Zhao et al. (National Engineering Research Center for Broadband Networks & Applications)
11-15-0022, “MAC Calibration Results,” Xiaofei Wang (InterDigital)
11-15-0044, “Proposed Changes to Simulation Scenarios,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-15-0051, “Box5 Calibration Results,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-15-0052, “Box5 Results of One BSS Case,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-15-0053, “Box5 Results of 11ac SS6,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-15-0061, “FPS Network Traffic Model,” Allan Jones (Activision)
11-15-0065, “11ax EMD Revision Straw Poll,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-15-0071, “MAC calibration test 4 results,” Yanchun Li (Huawei)
11-15-0072, “U-APSD power saving calibration results,” Yanchun Li (Huawei)
11-15-0073, “Simulation Results of Box5,” Ke Yao (ZTE)
11-15-0078, “Clarification on calibration test cases,” Guoqing Li (Apple)
11-15-0080, “MAC Calibration Results,” Geonjung Ko (WILUS Institute)
11-15-0093, “Text Update on PHY Abstraction and SP,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-15-0103, “Power Save Calibration,” Yarkko Kneckt (Nokia)
11-15-0104, “SLS MAC Test 4 Results,” Chinghwa Yu (MediaTek)

Others

11-15-0043, “In-band Full Duplex Radios and System Performance,” Kapseok Chang (ETRI)
11-15-0075, “Operating Rules for TGax Ad Hoc groups,” Osama Aboul-Magd (TGax chair)
11-15-0076, “Field Sample OBSS and Client Data,” Carol Ansley (ARRIS Group)

Goals for the March 2015 session

Continue to advance TG documents based on submissions.

Expectation is more submissions affecting the TG specification framework document will be considered.

Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the March 2015 session.

Thursday

February 26^th, 2015

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

November 2014 — San Antonio, TX

The TGax originally planned to have 9 sessions during the week.
FourHowever, one session (Tuesday PM3) was cancelled.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1	TGax (ad hoc)			TGax
AM2		TGax
PM1		TGax	TGax	TGax
PM2	TGax	TGax
PM3		TGax (Cancelled)

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and the closing report of TGax can be found here.

11-14-1319-07, TGax November 2014 Meeting Agenda
11-14-1460-00, TGax November 2014 San Antonio Meeting Minutes
11-14-1536-00, TGax November 2014 Closing Report

Achievements

Discussions on the TG Structure

The TG approved a motion to create four ad hoc groups.

PHY, MAC, Multi-User (MU) and Spatial Reuse (SR)

The TG approved a motion to have 3 co-chairs for each of the ad hocs.
Ad hoc chairs election is scheduled for January 2015 meeting on Tuesday.
Ad hoc meetings will start on March 2015
Robert Stacy (Intel) was appointed as the technical editor of the TGax.

TG Documents — The group approved updated documents.

The group approved the first version of TGax Specification Framework document (11-14-1453-02).
The group approved new revisions of the following documents.

TGax Simulation Scenarios (11-14-0980-05)
TGax Evaluation Methodology (11-14-0571-06).

Technical Presentations

Evaluation Methodology

11-14-1388, “Consideration on PER Prediction for PHY Abstraction,” Bo Sun (ZTE Corp)
11-14-1418, “Further Study of Time Varying Interference and PHY Abstraction,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-1420, “The Impact of Preamble Error on MAC System Performance,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-14-1424, “Proposed Changes to Evaluation Methodology and Simulation Scenario,” Yuichi Morioka (Sony)
11-14-1440, “A Few Corrections to Video Traffic Model,” Guoqing Li (Apple)

Simulation Scenarios and Calibration

11-14-1177, “Discussion about Box5 Calibration,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-14-1342, “MAC Calibration Results,” Igor Kim (ETRI)
11-14-1343, “Multicast Scenarios for MAC Calibration,” Igor Kim (ETRI)
11-14-1392, “Simulation results for Box 5 calibration,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-14-1402, “Box1 and Box3 calibration results,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-14-1419, “SLS Box5 Calibration Results and Discussions,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-1434, “TGax SLS Box4 Calibration Results,” Russell Huang (MediaTek Inc.)
11-14-1441, “Simulation Setting of Box5 Calibration,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-14-1444, “Energy Efficiency Evaluation and Simulation Model,” Chinghwa Yu (MediaTek)
11-14-1449, “MAC Calibration Results,” Newracom
11-14-1450, ”Box 0 calibration results,” Hongsup Lee (Newracom)
11-14-1451, “Box 1 and Box 2 Calibration Results,” Jaehyun Ahn (Newracom)

Technology/Other

Specification Framework

11-14-1429, “Proposed 802.11ax specification framework document,” Minho Cheong (Newracom)
11-14-1432, “Proposed 802.11ax specification framework - background,” Minho Cheong (Newracom)
11-14-1447, “Proposed Spec Framework Document for 11ax considering potential tech features,” John Son (WILUS Institute), Young Doo Kim (SK Telecom)
11-14-1453, “Spec Framework Proposal,” Robert Stacey (Intel)

Goals for the January 2015 session

Elect ad hoc chairs - 3 co-chairs/ad hoc group as agreed.
Continue to advance TG documents.
Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

One teleconference is planned before the January 2015 session.

Thursday

December 4^th, 2014,

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

September 2014 — Athens, Greece

The TGax had nine sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1				TGax
AM2	TGax	TGax
PM1		TGax	TGax	TGax
PM2	TGax	TGax
PM3	TGax

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and the closing report of TGax can be found here.

11-14-1033-05, TGax September 2014 Meeting Agenda
11-14-1460-00, TGax November 2014 Athens Meeting Minutes
11-14-1304-00, TGax November 2014 Closing Report

Achievements

The group elected two vice chairs and discussed about the TG structure.

Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
Ron Porat

The group approved minutes from the July 2014 San Diego meeting.

11-14-0864-00, TGax July 2014 San Diego Meeting Minutes

TG Documents

11-14-0980-04, TGax Simulation Scenarios
11-14-0571-05, TGax Evaluation Methodology
11-14-0882-04, TGax Channel Models
11-14-1009-02, TGax Functional Requirements

Technical Presentations

Functional Requirements

11-14-0636, “Discussion on Functional Requirements,” David Xun Yang (Huawei Technologies)
11-14-0920, “Considerations of Functional Requirements Documents,” David Xun Yang (Huawei Technologies)
11-14-1009, “Proposed 802.11ax Functional Requirements,” Lei Wang (Marvell)
11-14-1164, “Meaningful 11ax Functional Requirements,” Joe Kwak (InterDigital)
11-14-1167, “TGax Functional Requirement Discussion,” Yonggang Fang (ZTE)
11-14-1170, “Functional Requirements Discussions on Coex with Legacy STAs,” Masahito Mori (Sony)
11-14-1234, “Requirements Discussion,” Joseph Levy (InterDigital)

Simulation Scenarios and Calibration

11-14-0800, “Box 1 and Box 2 Calibration Results,” Nihae Jindal (Broadcom)
11-14-1147, “MAC Simulator Calibration Results,” Shoko Shinohara, Akira Kishida (NTT)
11-14-1175, “MAC Calibration results,” Suhwook Kim (LG Electronics)
11-14-1177, “Discussion about Box5 Calibration,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei Technologies)
11-14-1187, “The Effect of Preamble Error Model on MAC Simulator,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-14-1191, “MAC calibration results,” Zhou Lan (Huawei Technologies)
11-14-1192, “MAC calibration results comparison,” Zhou Lan (Huawei Technologies)
11-14-1198, “Additional Test Cases for MAC calibration,” Gwen Barriac (Qualcomm)
11-14-1217, “MAC Calibration Results for Test 1 and 2,” Esa Tuomaala (Nokia)
11-14-1223, “Stadium Measurements,” Brian Hart (Cisco Systems)
11-14-1226, “SLS Box 1&2 Calibration Results,” Russell Huang (MediaTek)
11-14-1230, “MAC Calibration Result,” Chinghwa Yu (MediaTek)

Evaluation Methodology

11-14-1161, “Parameters for Power Save Mechanisms,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-14-1162, “Energy Efficiency Evaluation Methodology Follow Up,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-14-1174, “PHY Abstraction with Time Varying Interference,” Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-1176, “PHY abstraction tables for 11ax system level simulation,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei Technologies)
11-14-1221, “Traffic Generator for OBSS Calibration Case,” Chao-Chun Wang (MediaTek)

Channel Model

11-14-1214, “Impact of correlated shadowing in 802.11ax system evaluations,” Leif Wilhelmsson (Ericsson AB)
11-14-1222, “Doppler Effect Evaluation for 11ax,” Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)

Technologies/Others

Goals for the November 2014 session

Continue to advance TG documents.
Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the November 2014 session.

Thursday

October 9^th, 2014

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

July 2014 — San Diego, CA

The TGax had 10 sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1	TGax		TGax	TGax
AM2		TGax
PM1			TGax	TGax
PM2	TGax	TGax	TGax
PM3		TGax

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and the closing report of TGax can be found here.

11-14-0748-06, TGax July 2014 Meeting Agenda
11-14-0864-00, TGax July 2014 San Diego Meeting Minutes
11-14-0984-01, TGax July 2014 Closing Report

Achievements

The group discussed on the TG structure.

The group will have two vice chairs to be election during the initial meeting slot of TGax in September 2014.

Chair has sent out the call for nominations to the reflector.

The group will have some ad hoc groups in the future, however, the discussion on the ad hoc structure was deferred.

The group approved minutes from the May 2014 Waikoloa meeting and Teleconference on July 2^nd, 2014.

11-14-0655-03, May 2014 Waikoloa Meeting Minutes
11-14-0788-02, Minutes from the teleconference on July 2^nd, 2014

TG Documents

The group approved new version of the Simulation Scenarios Document (11-14-0980-01).
The group approved new version of the Evaluation Methodology Document (11-14-0571-03).
The group approved the initial version of the TGax Channel Model document (11-14-0882r3).
The group adopted the initial version of the TGax Selection Procedure (11-14-0938r4).
The group had discussion on the Functional Requirements document.

Technical Presentations

Simulation Scenarios and Calibration

11-14-0799, “Modifications to Simulation Scenarios and Calibration Process,” Nihar Jindal (Broadcom)
11-14-0800, “Box 1 and Box 2 Calibration Results,” Nihar Jindal (Broadcom)
11-14-0803, “Packet Length for Box 0 Calibration,” Wookbong Lee (LG Electronics)
11-14-0850, “Clarification for MAC Calibration,” Gwen Barriac (Qualcomm)
11-14-0851, “Proposed Rate Control for MAC Simulator,” Gwen Barriac (Qualcomm)
11-14-0859, “Proposing a Stadium Scenario,” Hakan Persson (Ericsson)
11-14-0860, “Text proposal of a Stadium scenario to ax,” Hakan Persson (Ericsson)
11-14-0869, “MAC calibration results,” Zhou Lan (Huawei)
11-14-0871, “Further Calibration Results towards Integrated System Level Simulation,” Jiyong Pang (Huawei)
11-14-0892, “MAC Calibration Text to Simulation Scenarios,” Jarkko Kneckt (Nokia)
11-14-0894, “Calibration of System Level Simulators,” Sayantan Choudhury (Nokia)
11-14-0895, “Calibration of MAC simulator with OBSS Network Scenario,” Chao-CHun Wang (MediaTek)

Evaluation Methodology

11-14-0571, “Evaluation Methodologies,” Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-14-0810, “RBIR-based PHY Abstraction with Channel Estimation Error,” Yukun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-0811, “Overview on RBIR-based PHY Abstraction,” Yukun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-0827, “Energy Efficiency Evaluation Methodology,” Eric Wong (Apple)
11-14-0865, “ACI and AACI for 802.11ax System Simulations,” Yu Cai (Huawei)
11-14-0866, “Traffic modeling and system capacity performance measure,” Johan Soder (Ericsson)
11-14-0873, “PHY Abstraction Table for 11ax System Level Simulations,” Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-14-0874, “Unified Traffic Model on Enterprise Scenario,” Phillip Barber (Huawei)
11-14-0875, “VoIP Traffic Model Content for 11ax TG Simulation Scenarios & Evaluation Methodology,” Phillip Barber (Huawei)

Channel Models

11-14-0882, “IEEE 802.11ax Channel Model Document,” Jianhan Liu (Mediatek)
11-14-0904, “In-Cabin WiFi Channel Channel: Preliminary Ray Tracing Simulations,” Fan Bai (General Motors)

Functional requirements

11-14-0567, “Proposed 802.11ax Functional Requirements,” Lei Wang (Marvell)
11-14-0818, “Synchronization Requirements,” Yonggang Fang (ZTE)
11-14-0821, “Coexistence Requirements of 802.11 WLAN and LTE in Unlicensed Spectrum,” Alireza Babaei (CableLabs)
11-14-0835, “Functional Requirements Discussion,” Joe Kwak (InterDigital)

Technologies/Others

11-14-0779, “Dynamic Sensitivity Control Practical Usage,” Graham Smith (DSP Group)
11-14-0801, “Envisioning 11ax PHY Structure - Part II,” Dongguk Lim(LG Electronics)
11-14-0802, “Consideration on UL MU transmission,” Jinyoung Chun (LG Electronics)
11-14-0804, “Envisioning 11ax PHY Structure - Part I,” Jinsoo Choi (LG Electronics)
11-14-0832, “Performance Evaluation of OBSS Densification,” Po-Kai Huang (Intel)
11-14-0833, “Residential Scenario Sensitivity and Transmit Power Control Simulation Results,” Ron Murias (InterDigital)
11-14-0838, “Discussion on dual-link STR in IEEE 802.11ax,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ)
11-14-0839, “Discussion on OFDMA in IEEE 802.11ax,” Jinsoo Ahn (Yonsei Univ)
11-14-0846, “Changing CCA in the Residential Environment,” Gwen Barriac (Qualcomm)
11-14-0847, “Further Considerations on Enhanced CCA for 11ax,” John Son (WILUS Institute)
11-14-0854, “DSC and Legacy Coexistence,” Yuichi Morioka (SONY)
11-15-0855, “Techniques for Short Downlink Frames,” Brian Hart (Cisco Systems)
11-15-0856, “Evaluating Dynamic CCA/Receiver Sensitivity Algorithms,” Brian Hart (Cisco Systems)
11-14-0858, “Analysis on Multiplexing Schemes exploiting frequency selectivity,” Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)
11-14-0861, “Impact of CCA adaptation on spatial reuse in dense residential scenario,” Sayantan Choudhury (Nokia)
11-14-0868, “UL & DL DSC and TPC MAC simulations,” Johan Soder (Ericsson)
11-14-0872, “A Protocol Framework for Dynamic CCA,” Sean Coffey (Realtek)
11-14-0880, “Increased Network Throughput with Channel Width Related CCA and Rules,” James Wang (Mediatek)
11-14-0889, “Performance Gains from CCA Optimization,” Nihar Jindal (Broadcom)

Timeline

Current Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	Start to work on the specification framework
July 2016	Draft 1.0 to be ready
March 2017	Draft 2.0 to be ready
1H 2019	Publication of IEEE 802.11ax amendment

Goals for the September 2014 session

TG vice-chairs election.
Continue to advance TG documents.
Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the September 2014 session.

Thursday

August 14^th, 2014

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

Chair had sent out call for submissions on the TGax reflector.

May 2014 — Waikoloa, HI

The TGax had 10 sessions during the week.
Four out of ten sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1			TGax	TGax
AM2	TGax	TGax
PM1				Tgax
PM2	TGax	TGax
PM3	TGax	TGax

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and the closing report of TGax can be found here.

11-14-0478-05, TGax May 2014 Meeting Agenda
11-14-0655-01, TGax May 2014 Waikoloa Meeting Minutes
11-14-0702-00, TGax May 2014 Closing Report

Achievements

The group elected the chairperson and the secretary.

Chairperson: Osama Aboul-Magd (Huawei Technologies)
Secretary: Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)

The group approved minutes from the March 2014 Beijing meeting and Teleconference on April 17^th, 2014.

11-14-0380-01, HEW SG March 2014 Beijing Meeting Minutes
11-14-0530-00, TGax teleconference minutes - 2014.04.17

TG Documents

The group approved initial version of the Simulation Scenarios (11-14-0621-04) and Evaluation Methodology (11-14-0571-02) documents.
The group started the discussion related to Functional Requirements document. Expectation is to approve the initial revision of the document in July.
Discussion related to Channel Model document is expected to start in July.

Technical Presentations

Timeline

Current Timeline
May 2014	Start of TG
November 2014	Start to work on the specification framework
July 2016	Draft 1.0 to be ready
March 2017	Draft 2.0 to be ready
1H 2019	Publication of IEEE 802.11ax amendment

Goals for the July 2014 session

Continue to advance simulation scenarios (11-14/0621) and Evaluation Methodologies (11-14/0571) documents.
Approve an initial Functional Requirements document.
Approve an initial Channel Model document.
Discuss and approve TG structure and process.
Technical Presentations.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the July 2014 meeting.

Wednesday	June 4^th, 2014	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Wednesday	June 18^th, 2014	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Wednesday	July 2^nd, 2014	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) Study Group

March 2014 — Beijing, China

The HEW SG had 7 sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1			HEW	HEW
AM2		HEW
PM1				HEW
PM2	HEW	HEW
PM3		HEW

Main documents

The meeting agenda, minutes, and the closing report of HEW SG can be found here.

11-14-0219-04, HEW SG Maarch 2014 Meeting Agenda
11-14-0380-00, HEW SG March 2014 Beijing Meeting Minutes
11-14-0457-00, HEW SG March 2014 Closing Report

Achievements

The group approved minutes from the January 2014 Los Angeles meeting and teleconferences on February 6^th, 2014 and February 13^th, 2014.

11-14-0199-00, January 2014 Los Angeles Meeting Minutes
11-14-0229-02, Minutes from the teleconference on February 6^th, 2014
11-14-0242-00, Minutes from the teleconference on February 13^th, 2014

Addressed comments related to the PAR and CSD received from individuals and other IEEE 802 WGs.
Resolutions of comments are contained in the following document:

https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0424-00-0hew-hew-sg-par-and-csd-comments-and-resolutions.pptx

Updated the PAR and the CSD documents based on received comments:

The group passed motions to approve revised PAR and CSD documents, and SG extension.

Revised PAR (11-14/0165r1):	Y/N/A = 94/0/1,	Motion passes.
Revised CSD (11-14/0169r1):	Y/N/A = 97/0/1,	Motion passes.
SG extension:	Y/N/A = 105/0/0,	Motion passes.

HEW SG has completed its work and the IEEE standard board approved 802.11ax project.

The group received more than 30 submissions in the categories of simulation scenarios, evaluation methodologies, channel models, functional requirements, technologies and selection procedure.

Goals for the May 2014 session

Meet as a new TG and will have officer elections.
Continue the work on simulation scenarios, evaluation methodologies, channel models, and function requirements.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the May 2014 meeting.

Thursday

April 174^th, 2014

10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

Details to be announced.

January 2014 — Los Angeles, CA

The HEW SG had 9 sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1				HEW
AM2	HEW	HEW
PM1				HEW
PM2	HEW	HEW	HEW
PM3	HEW	HEW

Main documents

11-13-1506-05, HEW SG January 2014 Meeting Agenda
11-14-0199-00, HEW SG January 2014 Los Angeles Meeting Minutes
11-14-0187-00, HEW SG January 2014 Closing Report

Achievements

The group approved minutes from the November 2013 Dallas meeting and teleconferences on December 4^th, 2013, December 18^th, 2013 and January 8^th, 2014.

11-13-1465-01, November 2013 Dallas Meeting Minutes
11-13-1495-00, Minutes from the teleconference on December 4^th, 2013
11-13-1532-01, Minutes from the teleconference on December 18^th, 2013
11-14-0024-01, Minutes from the teleconference on January 8^th, 2014

The group resolved open issues related to the PAR and CSD.
The group received 28 submissions that were categorized into (1) PAR and 5 Criteria related submissions, and (2) Best Effort submissions. Best Effort submissions basically related to simulation scenario and evaluation methodology.
The group passed motions to approve PAR and CSD.

PAR and 5 Criteria related submissions (high priority)

11-13-1410, “802.11 HEW Draft PAR and 5C”, Osama Aboul-Magd and All
11-13-1489, “Airport Capacity Analysis”, Graham Smith (DSP Group)
11-14-0026, “thoughts on hew par”, Yong Liu (Apple)
11-14-0045, “E-Education Analysis”, Graham Smith (DSP Group)
11-14-0058, “Pico Cell Use Case Analysis “, Graham Smith (DSP Group)
11-14-0061, “Some findings from real world measurement”, Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-14-0065, “Comments on Draft HEW PAR”, Bill Carney (SONY)
11-14-0101, “Comments on 802.11 HEW Draft PAR & 5C”, Rakesh Taori (Samsung Electronics)
11-14-0106, “Discussion on HEW PAR”, Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-14-0119, “Suggested PAR Changes”, James Yee (MediaTek)
11-14-0163, “Raising the PAR”, Mat Fischer (Broadcom)

Best Effort submissions

11-14-0043, “PHY abstraction in system level simulation for HEW study”, Fei Tong (Samsung)
11-14-0051, “Wireless Office with Interference”, David Xun Yang (Huawei)
11-14-0053, “Further Considerations on Calibration of System Level Simulation”, Jiayin Zhang (Huawei)
11-14-0056, “Traffic Model on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure”, Yingpei Lin (Huawei)
11-14-0059, “Integrated System Level Simulation”, Jun Luo (Huawei)
11-14-0063, “Design Challenges for 802.11 HEW Radios”, Yu Cai (Huawei)
11-14-0070, “Joint MAC/PHY Evaluation Methodology”, Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)
11-14-0082, “Improved Spatial Reuse Feasibility - Part I”, Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-14-0083, “Improved Spatial Reuse Feasibility - Part II”, Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-14-0086, “Outdoor AP Measurement in Tokyo”, Tsugu Aoki (Toshiba)
11-14-0088, “Intra-Vehicular Channel Model”, Igal Kotzer (General Motors)
11-14-0095, “OFDM-IDMA Uplink Communication”, Leonardo Lanante (Kyushu Inst. Of Tech)
11-14-0107, “HEW Evaluation Metrics”, Yonggang Fang (ZTETX)
11-14-0116, “Long-Term SINR Calibration for System Level Simulation”, Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-0117, “PHY Abstraction for HEW System Level Simulation”, Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-14-0118, “Consideration on System Level Simulation”, Jinsoo Chio (LG Electronics)

The group passed motions to approve PAR and CSD

11-14-165-00, IEEE 802.11 HEW SG Proposed PAR
11-14-169-00, IEEE 802.11 HEW SG Proposed CSD

Goals for the March 2014 session

Resolve comments expected from EC members and other IEEE 802 WGs
Continue with presentations relevant to the SG topics.

Simulation scenarios
Evaluation Methodologies
Channel Models
Technology
etc.

Teleconferences

The group agreed to have four teleconferences before the March 2014 session.

Thursday	February 6^th, 2014	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Thursday	February 13^th, 2014	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	February 20^th, 2014	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Thursday	February 27^th, 2014	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

November 2013 — Dallas, TX

The HEW SG had 10 sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1			HEW	HEW
AM2		HEW
PM1		HEW	HEW	HEW
PM2	HEW	HEW	HEW	HEW
PM3

Main documents

11-13-1263-05, HEW SG November 2013 Meeting Agenda
11-13-1465-01, HEW SG November 2013 Dallas Meeting Minutes
11-13-1476-01, HEW SG November 2013 Closing Report

Achievements

The group approved minutes from the September 2013 Nanjing meeting and teleconferences on October 3rd and October 30^th, 2013.

11-13-1117-01, September 2013 Nanjing Meeting Minutes
11-13-1275-01, Minutes from the teleconference on October 3^rd, 2013
11-13-1303-00, Minutes from the teleconference on October 30^th, 2013

The group received more than 40 submissions that were categorized into three categories, i.e., (1) Channel Mode/Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodologies, (2) MAC/PHY technologies and (3) PAR proposals.

Channel Models, Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodologies

11-13-1001, “HEW SG Simulation Scenarios”, Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-13-1305, “Simplification on HEW traffic models”, Bill Carney (Sony)
11-13-1334, 11-13-1335, “Video Traffic Modeling”, Guiqing Li (Intel)
11-13-1359, “HEW Evaluation Methodology”, Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-13-1370, “LTE OOB Interference to 2.4 GHz Band“, Yonggang Fang (ZTE TX)
11-13-1376, “Discussions on Penetration Loss”, Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-13-1380, “Outdoor Channel Model Simulation Follow-up”, Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-13-1383, “System Level Simulation Parameters”, Wookbong Lee (LG Electronics)
11-13-1387, “HEW channel modeling for system level simulation”, Yan Zhang (Marvell)
11-13-1390, “PHY Abstraction for HEW System Level Simulations”, Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-13-1391, “About SINR conversion for PHY Abstraction”, Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-13-1392, “Methodology of Calibrating System Level Simulation Results”, Yakun Sun (Marvell)
11-13-1401, “System Level Assessments for Outdoor HEW Deployments”, Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)
11-13-1406, “Traffic Modeling for HEW Simulations”, Huai-Rong Shao (Samsung)
11-13-1407, “Simulation based study of QoE”, Chao-Chun Wang (MediaTek)
11-13-1412, “How to use simulation scenarios in HEW“, Minho Cheong (ETIR)
11-13-1419, “Modifications to ITU Channel Model to Support 160MHz bandwidth of operation”, Shahrnaz Azizi (Intel)
11-13-1420, “HEW Considerations for the Vehicular Environment”, Igal Kotzer (General Motors)
11-13-1438, “Traffic Observation and Study on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure”, Phillip Barber (Huawei Technologies)
11-13-1456, “Considerations on WFA feedback“, Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)

MAC/PHY Technologies

11-13-1325, “IEEE 802.11ai overview”, Hiroshi Mano (ATRD), chair of TGai
11-13-1349, “Access Control Enhancement”, Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI)
11-13-1375, “Summary and Discussions of Proposals on Potential PHY Technologies in HEW”, Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-13-1377, “DL efficiency enhancement in high density network”, Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-13-1382, “Discussion on OFDMA in HEW”, Jinsoo Choi (LG Electronics)
11-13-1386, “Improving WLAN Efficiency and QoE - A Top Down Approach”, Veli-Pekka Kentonen (7 Signals)
11-13-1388, “UL MU-MIMO transmission”, Jinyoung Chun (LG)
11-13-1395, “Simultaneous Transmission Technologies for HEW”, Koichi Ishihara (NTT)
11-13-1409, “Dual Wi-Fi: Dual Channel Wi-Fi for Congested WLANs with Asymmetric Traffic Loads”, Adriana Flores (Rice University)
11-13-1421, “STR Radios and STR Media Access”, Phillip Levis (Stanford University)
11-13-1440, “Argos | Practical Masive-MIMO”, Clayton Shepard (Rice University)

PAR proposals

11-13-1331, “Proposed direction and priorities for HEW”, Guido R. Hiertz (Ericsson)
11-13-1333, “Power Efficiency PAR Requirements”, Chris Hansen (Covariant)
11-13-1361, “Discussion to derive HEW Functional Requirements”, Yasunao Misawa (KDDI)
11-13-1366, “Some propositions to progress towards the PAR definition”, Laurent Cariou (Orange)
11-13-1389, “Discussion on HEW PAR”, HanGyu Cho (LG Electronics)
11-13-1397, “Renewing 2.4 GHz”, Brian Hart (Cisco Systems)
11-13-1398, “Requirements for HEW”, Akira Yamada (NTT DOCOMO)
11-13-1404, “Some Thoughts on PAR”, and
11-13-1405, “HEW PAR”, Eldad Perahia (Intel)
11-13-1450, “Summary of PAR Discussions”, Osama Aboul-Magd (HEW SG chair)
11-13-1470 and 11-13-1471, “802.11 HEW proposed basis for PAR discussion”, Laurent Cariou (Orange)

Discussed the WFA feedback on prioritization of the usage cases and approved a liaison letter back to WFA.

Feedback from the Wi-Fi Alliance:

11-13-1443-00, Liaison from Wi-Fi Alliance - HEW Use Cases

Approved a liaison document to the Wi-Fi Alliance:

11-13-1446-00, IEEE 802.11 Liaison to WFA on Prioritization of High Efficiency WLAN (HEW) Usage Scenarios

Started the discussion on the PAR.
The group passed a motion to extend the study group by 136/0/2.

Goals for the January 2014 session

Progress the work on the PAR and 5C.

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the March 2016 meeting.

Wednesday	December 4^th, 2013	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Wednesday	December 18^th, 2013	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)
Wednesday	January 8^th, 2014	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

September 2013 — Nanjing, China

The HEW SG had 9 sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1				HEW
AM2		HEW
PM1			HEW	HEW
PM2	HEW	HEW	HEW
PM3	HEW	HEW

Main documents

11-13-0951-07, HEW SG September 2013 Meeting Agenda
11-13-1117-01, HEW SG September 2013 Nanjing Meeting Minutes
11-13-1231-01, HEW SG September 2013 Closing Report

Achievements

The group approved minutes from the Geneva meeting and teleconference on August 28^th, 2013.

11-13-0861-01, Minutes from face-to-face meeting in Geneva, July 2013
11-13-1003-00, Minutes from the teleconference on August 28^th, 2013

50 submissions in the following categories were received and presented during the week.

Channel Models

11-13-0996, “Outdoor Channel Model Candidates for HEW”, Kaushik Josiam (Samsung)
11-13-1113, “Channel Modeling for Dense Wi-Fi Environments“, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-1125, “HEW Outdoor Channel Model Discussions”, Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-13-1135, “Summary of HEW Channel Models”, Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-13-1146, “Update on HEW Channel Model”, Shahrnaz Azizi (Intel Corp)

Simulation Scenarios/Simulation Methodologies

11-13-1000, “Simulation Scenarios”, Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-13-1001, “Simulation Scenarios Document Template”, Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-13-1079, “Outdoor Stadium Simulation Details Discussion”, Joseph Levy (InterDigital)
11-13-1080, “Markov Modeling of the Channel for HEW System Level Simulations”, Joseph Levy (InterDigital)
11-13-1081, “HEW Simulation Methodology”, Sayantan Choudhury (Nokia)
11-13-1083, “HEW SG Unified Simulation Scenarios”, David Xun Yang (Huawei)
11-13-1114, “Simulation Scenario for unplanned Wi-Fi Network”, Jae Seung Lee (ETRI)
11-13-1123, “Capacity Simulation of High Density Indoor WLAN Systems”, Filip Mestanov (Ericsson AB)
11-13-1133, “Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)”, Yingpei Lin (Huawei Technologies)
11-13-1153, “Simulation Scenario Proposal”, Laurent Cariou (Orange)
11-13-1159, “Video Performance Requirements and Simulation Parameters”, Guoqing Li (Intel)
11-13-1162, “Video Application Categories and Characteristics”, Guoqing Li (Intel)
11-13-1176, “Some Simulation Scenarios for HEW”, Reza Hedayat (Cisco)

Evaluation Methodology

11-13-1051, “Evaluation Methodology”, Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-13-1054, “HEW Evaluation Metrics Suggestions”, Yonggang Fang (ZTETX)
11-13-1059, “PHY Abstraction for HEW Evaluation Methodology”, Dongguk Lim (LG Electronics)
11-13-1131, “PHY Abstraction for HEW System Level Simulation”, Jiayin Zhang (Huawei Technologies)
11-13-1137, “The Definition of Performance Metrics for HEW”, Haui-Rong Shao (Samsung)
11-13-1144, “Simplified Traffic Model Based on Aggregated Network Statistics”, William Carney (Sony)
11-13-1158, “Video Traffic and Applications for HEW”, William Carney (Sony)

Functional Requirements

11-13-1097, “Functional Requirements for HEW PAR”, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-1116, “Discussion on HEW Functional Requirements”, Jinsoo Choi (LG Electronics)

MAC/PHY Technologies

11-13-1046, “Discussion for Massive MIMO for HEW”, Zhigang Wen (BUPT)
11-13-1056, “Enhancement on resource utilization in OBSS environment”, Giwon Park (LG Electronics)
11-13-1058, “Efficient wider bandwidth operation”, Kiseon Ryu (LG Electronics)
11-13-1061, “Multicast Transmission for HEW”, Jeongki Kim (LG electronics)
11-13-1073, “Access Control Enhancement“, Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-13-1074, “Occupied air time calculation for doc.1073r0”, Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI R&D Laboratories)
11-13-1077, “EDCA Enhancements for HEW”, Hui Zhao (BUPT)
11-13-1089, “D2D Technology for HEW”, Xiang Gao (BUPT)
11-13-1090, “Non-linear pre-coding MIMO Scheme for next generation WLAN”, Xiang Gao (BUPT)
11-13-1105, “Discussion on Access Mechanism for HEW”, Meng Yang (CATR)
11-13-1122, “Considerations for In-Band Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STR) feature in HEW”, Rakesh Taori (Samsung Electronics)
11-13-1126, “Beamforming under OBSS Interference”, Hongyuan Zhang (Marvell)
11-13-1154, “DL-MU-MIMO Transmission with Unequal Bandwidth”, Yongming Huang (Southeast University)
11-13-1155, “Space Division Multiplex for OBSS Interference Suppression”, Yongming Huang (Southeast University)
11-13-1156, “TXOP Redundancy NAV Clear”, Yongming Huang (Southeast University)
11-13-1157, “Feasibility of Coordination Transmission for HEW”, Yunzhou Li (Tsunghua University)
11-13-1168, “Requirements on WLAN Ad Push”, Hui Tian (BUPT)
11-13-1169, “WLAN Cellular Offload in High Speed Moving Environment”, Hui Tian (BUPT)

General

11-13-1057, “Legacy support on HEW frame structure”, Wookbong Lee (LG electronics)
11-13-1100, “HEW SG Progress Review”, Osama Aboul-Magd (HEW SG)
11-13-1115, “Possible vision of the HEW-driven Wi-Fi 2020”, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-1163, “PAR and 5C: Comments based on 11n”, Sean Coffey (RealTek)
11-13-1164, “Some PAR and 5C Requirements”, Paul Lambert (Marvell)

Straw Polls
Timeline

Goals for the November 2013 session

Hear presentations addressing SS/SM/EM/FR/CM/TECH

Attempt to consolidate documents related to the above areas of discussion.
Priority will be given to presentations with consolidated views

Start discussion on PAR related issues
Motion for SG extension
WFA feedback on the usage cases

Teleconferences

Three teleconferences are planned before the November 2013 meeting.

Wednesday	October 9^th, 2013	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Wednesday	October 17^th, 2013	00:00 - 02:00 (ET)
Wednesday	October 30^th, 2013	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)

July 2013 — Geneva, Switzerland

The HEW SG had nine sessions during the week.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1			HEW	HEW
AM2		HEW		HEW
PM1			HEW
PM2	HEW	HEW	HEW	HEW
PM3

Main Documents

11-13-0664-05, HEW SG July 2013 Agenda
11-13-0861-00, HEW SG July 2013 Geneva Meeting Minutes
11-13-0922-00, HEW SG July 2013 Closing Report

Acheivements

The group approved minutes from the face-to-face meeting in Waikoloa, HI and teleconferences held on June 5^th and June 19^th.

11-13-0560-02, HEW SG May 2013 Waikoloa meeting minutes
11-13-0663-01, HEW SG Teleconference minutes 20130605
11-13-0704-00, HEW SG Teleconference minutes 20130619

Technical Presentations

Usage Models/Use Cases

11-13-0657, “HEW SG usage models and requirements - Liaison with WFA” Laurent Cariou (Orange)
11-13-0761, “Interference Control Use Case for HEW”, Fang Xie (CMCC)
11-13-0795, “HEW Usage Scenarios Categorization”, Eldad Perahia (Intel)
11-13-0802, “Proposed re-categorization of the HEW usage models”, Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)
11-13-0836, “HEW Usage Models for Backhauls and Floor Automation“, Minho Cheong (ETRI)

Functional Requirements

11-13-0787, “Follow up requirements”, Wu Tianyu (Huawei)
11-13-0798, “Functional Requirements in HEW”, Jinsoo Choi (LG Electronics)
11-13-0840, “HEW Functional Requirements Follow-up (Preliminary Version for Study Group discussions)”, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-0850, “Quantitative QoE Requirements for HEW”, Huai-Rong Shao (Samsung)

Simulation Scenarios and Evaluation Methodology

11-13-0723, “HEW SG Evaluation Methodology Overview”, Minyoung Park (Intel)
11-13-0728, “Network Optimization for Expected HEW Traffic Patterns”, Bill Carney (Sony)
11-13-0756, “HEW Channel Model”, Vinko Erceg (Broadcom)
11-13-0757, “Evaluation Methodology and Simulation Scenarios” Nihar Jindal (Broadcom)
11-13-0786, “Discussion on System Level Simulation Methodology” Wu Tianyu (Huawei)
11-13-0800, “HEW Study Group Documentation”, Hemanth Sampath (Qualcomm)
11-13-0805, “On Definition of Dense Networks and Performance Metric”, Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-13-0837, “Consideration for HEW Evaluation Methodology”, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-0847, “Evaluation Criteria and Simulation Scenarios” Klaus Doppler (Nokia)
11-13-0858, “Enhanced Channel Model for HEW”, Shahrnaz Azizi (Intel)
11-13-0869, “Simulation scenarios and metrics for HEW”, Thomas Derham (Orange)
11-13-0872, “Clarifications on outdoor deployments”, Laurent Cariou (Orange)

MAC/PHY Techniques

11-13-0712, “A Brief Time of History”, Larry Taylor (DTC)
11-13-0758, “Possible Approaches for HEW”, Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-13-0764, “Full-duplex Technology for HEW”, Andre Bourdoux (IMEC)
11-13-0765, “Full-duplex is an emerging radio paradigm that has the potential to improve the efficiency of future WLANs”, Hongliang Bian (China Telecom)
11-13-0768, “TD-uCSMA”, Riccard Scopigno (ISMB)
11-13-0801, “Issues of Low Rate Transmissions”, Akira Kishida (NTT)
11-13-0843, “Further Evaluation on outdoor Wi-Fi”, Wookbong Lee (LG Electronics)
11-13-0849, “New Techniques: Enabling Real World Improvement By Exposing Internal MAC state”, Brian Hart (Cisco)
11-13-0852, “Potential approach to improve WLAN BSS edge performance”, Juho Pirskanen (Renesas Mobile)
11-13-0854, “Consideration on Efficiency Enhancement”, SangHyun Chang (Samsung)
11-13-0865, “Video Data Rate for HEW”, Huai-Rong Shao (Samsung)
11-13-0871, “Discussion on Potential Techniques for HEW”, Timo Koskela (Renesas Mobile)
11-13-0877, “HEW Beamforming Enhancements”, James Wang (MediaTek)
11-13-0878, “Efficiency enhancement for dense WLAN environment”, Jeongki Kim (LG Electronics)

HWE SG Initial Usage Models

11-13-0657-06

Liaison to the Wi-Fi Alliance

11-13-0902-01

The group passed motion to extend the SG.
Timeline

TGax Initial Timeline
May 2013	Start of the HEW SG
July 2013	Presentations, SG extension
September 2013	Presentations
November 2013	Presentations, initial PAR and 5C, and SG extension
January 2014	Presentations, final PAR and 5C, WG approval
March 2014	Presentations, EC approval of PAR and 5C
May - June, 2014	NesCom approval of PAR and 5C
July 2014	Start of a new TG

Goals for September 2013 session

During the September 2013 meeting, the HEW SG continues discussions on issues related to:

Usage Models/Use Cases
Functional Requirements
Feasibility
Scope and Process

Teleconferences

Two teleconferences are planned before the September 2013 session.

Wednesday	August 7^th, 2013	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Wednesday	August 27^th, 2013	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

May 2013 — Waikoloa, HI

HEW SG had six sessions during the week. The TGax had 10 sessions during the week.
Four out of ten sessions were assigned to the ad hoc groups.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
AM1				HEW
AM2		HEW		HEW
PM1
PM2	HEW		HEW	HEW
PM3

Main Documents

11-13-0400-04, HEW SG May 2013 Agenda
11-13-0560-02, HEW SG May 2013 Waikoloa Meeting Minutes
11-13-0624-00, HEW SG May 2013 Closing Report

Acheivements

The group decided leadership structure to have one chairperson and one secretary.

Chair: Osama Aboul-Magd (Huawei Technologies)
Secretary: Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)

The group received 22 submissions as listed below.

Usage Models/Use Cases

11-13-0514, “HEW Usage Scenarios and Applications”, Eldad Perahia (Intel)
11-13-0538, “Dense apartment building use case for HEW”, Klaus Doppler (Nokia)
11-13-0554, “Use Cases”, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-0567, “Proposed HEW Usage Models”, Yasuhiko Inoue (NTT)
11-13-0527, “Usage Models for Next Generation”, David Xun Yang (Huawei) and James Wang (MediaTek)
11-13-0534, “Direction and Use Cases for HEW”, HanGyu Cho (LG Electronics)
11-13-0563-00, “D2D Technology for HEW”, Zhanji Wu (BUPT) - not presented

Problem Statements

11-13-0505, “MAC Efficiency Analysis for HEW SG”, Minyoung Park (Intel)
11-13-0545, “WLAN QoE, End User Perspective Opportunities to Improve”, Veli-Pekka Ketonen (7 signals)
11-13-0523, “Understanding Current Situation of Public Wi-Fi Usage - Possible Requirements for HEW -“, Katsuo Yunoki (KDDI Labs)
11-13-0539, “Efficient Frequency Spectrum Utilization”, Yongho Seok (LG Electronics)
11-13-0544, “Discussions on 11ac PHY efficiency”, Jianhan Liu (MediaTek)
11-13-0536-00, “HEW SG PHY Considerations For Outdoor Environment”, Wookbong Lee (LG Electronics)
11-13-0576, “Performance Evaluation for 11ac”, Wu Tianyu (Huawei Technologies)
11-13-0556, “Wi-Fi interference measurements in Korea - Part 1”, Minho Cheong (ETRI)
11-13-0549, “A perspective on what any High Efficiency Wireless TG should and should not do”, Brian Hart (Cisco Systems)

Requirements

11-13-0524, “HEW Finctional Requirements”, Wu Tianyu (Huawei Technologies)
11-13-0555, “Considerations on Functional Requirements for HEW”, Minho Cheoung (ETRI)

Scenarios and Metrics

11-13-0503, “Discussion on Basic Technical Aspects for HEW”, Juho Pirskanen (Renesas Mobile)
11-13-0542, “HEW Scenarios and Goals”, Simone Merlin (Qualcomm)
11-13-0486, “HEW - Metrics, Targets and Simulation Scenarios”, Ron Porat (Broadcom)
11-13-0520, “HEW scenarios and evaluation metrics”, Thomas Derham (Orange)

Technical Feasibility

11-13-0558, “Coexistence and Optimization of Wireless LAN: Time, Frequency, Space, Power, and Load”, Jim Lansford (CSR)

Liaison to the Wi-Fi Alliance

The group agreed to ask the Wi-Fi Alliance for input about priority of the use cases.
Laurent Cariou (Orange) volunteers to develop the use case document.

Project planning

The group discussed about the project plan based on the submission 11-13-0616-02 by Phil Barber (Huawei)
Discussion to be continued in the July meeting.

Goals for July 2013 session

During July 2013 session, the HEW SG will continue discussions on:

Use Cases,
Functional Requirements,
Feasibility,
Scope and Process.

Teleconferences

Two teleconferences are planned before the July 2013 session.

Wednesday	June 5^th, 2013	10:00 - 12:00 (ET)
Wednesday	June 19^th, 2013	20:00 - 22:00 (ET)

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