2008-05-15 IEEE 802.16m-08/021

802.16m Closing Report

May 15, 2008

Macau

Session #55

2008-05-15 IEEE 802.16m-08/021

802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)• Into Session #55

– Call for Comments on SDD (all)• 130 comments• Approx 40 contributions

– Call for SDD Contributions (approx 150)• UL Pilots & Resource Allocation (37)• Uplink Control (12)• DL MIMO (57)• Preambles (18)• HARQ (29)

– DL PHY Rapporteur Report Output (14)– DL Control Rapporteur Group Output (17)– Relay Ad Hoc Report C802.16m-08/500 (18)

2008-05-15 IEEE 802.16m-08/021

802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)

• Results for the week:– Resolve several comments on EMD – Done, revised

EMD, 802.16m-002r2 to be issued– Review Relay Ad Hoc report in Joint Session with TGj

(Tuesday AM) and make TGm Relay decision – Done – Multi-Hop (more than 2) Tree Architecture to be adopted, other methods to be investigated if benefits can be shown. Adopted some relay related text into SDD.

– Resolve Comments on SDD – Done - accepted database 802.16m-08/018r2, and authorized editor to issue a revised SDD, 802.16m- 08/003r2

2008-05-15 IEEE 802.16m-08/021

802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)

• Results for the week: – Review Downlink PHY and DL Control Rapporteur Group outputs,

decide on approach & SDD text (breakout sessions) – Done - Adopted the text contained in contributions C802.16m-08/298r1 (DL control) and C802.16m-08/517 (DL PHY) for inclusion into revised SDD

– Review contributions from SDD Call for Contributions and appoint Rapporteurs to initiate draft text activities for input to session #56 Partially done– Reviewed about 50% of the input contributions into each CFC area and established Rapporteur groups to harmonize all inputs

– New Rapporteur Groups Charter and scope contained in 802.16m-08/023:

• HARQ – Sassan Ahmadi, Shashikant Maheshwari, Thierry Lestable • Preamble – Dr. Chris Williams, Paul Cheng• UL Control – Roshni Srinivasan, Andrea Bacioccola • UL PHY- Ron Murias, Apostolos Papathanassiou, Changhoi Koo• DL MIMO – Minnie Ho, Zhouyue (Jerry) Pi, Yong Sun

2008-05-15 IEEE 802.16m-08/021

802.16m Closing Report (Session #55)

• Issue Call for Contributions on following new subjects:– UL MIMO Schemes, HARQ (PHY aspects)– Link adaptation schemes, Interference

Mitigation, Power Control– Upper MAC (limited to addressing, mobility

and power management)

• Issue Call for Comments on newly adopted SDD text (only)