IEEE P802.11 - ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE OFFLOAD (AIO) STUDY GROUP (SG) - MEETING UPDATE

Status of IEEE 802.11 AIO SG

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Background

Goals

May 2026

Background

AI Offload is a new Study Group within the IEEE 802.11 working group that will investigate MAC technologies to support the offloading of compute intense AI inference tasks to edge AI Wi-Fi Access Points and other Wi-Fi enabled edge compute devices. The study group has been created in March 2026 and the first meeting was held in May 2026.

Goals

The goal of this IEEE 802.11 Study Group is to produce a PAR and CSD to develop an IEEE802.11 standard to facilitate the offloading of compute intense AI inference tasks to edge AI Wi-Fi Access Points and other Wi-Fi enabled edge compute devices.

May 2026

Main documents

• AIO SG May 2026 Agenda
• AIO SG May 2026 Minutes
• AIO SG May 2026 Closing Report

Achievements

The main achievements of this meeting were:

• Current status
  • Selected and confirmed the AIO SG Officers:
    • AIO SG Secretary: Zhanjing Bao
    • AIO SG 1st Vice Chair: Xiaofei Wang
    • AIO SG 2nd Vice Chair: Jerome Henry
  • Five technical presentations on use cases and scope:
    • 11-26/822r0: AI offload use cases, Duncan Ho, Qualcomm
    • 11-26/930r2: AI Offload Use Cases - Agent Perspective, Zisheng Wang, ZTE
    • 11-26/994r0: AI offloading use cases and requirements, Sam Shi, Oppo
    • 11-26/995r0: Considerations on AI offload procedures, Sam Shi, Oppo
    • 11-26/857r0: Considerations on the scope of AI Offload, Robin Thomas, Lenovo
  • Discussions on PAR and CSD:
    • 11-26/978r1: Initial PAR discussion, Gaurang Naik, Qualcomm
    • 11-26/979r2: Initial CSD discussion, Gaurang Naik, Qualcomm
• Teleconferences
  • Wednesday 17th June 2026, 10:00 ET, 2 hours

July 2026 plans

• Approve May 2026 Interim meeting minutes
• Continue discussions on PAR and CSD
• Discuss technical presentations

USEFUL LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

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• Home
• IEEE 802.11 WiKi
• E-mail Reflectors Archives (Members Only)

OTHER SITES

• IEEE P802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC)

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