Nov 2007 L802.16-07/071r1
802.21 Liaison - Session #52 Closing Plenary
IEEE 802.16 Presentation Submission Template (Rev. 9)
Document Number:
IEEE L802.16-07/071
Date Submitted:
2007-11-15
Source:
Peretz Feder
Alcatel-Lucent
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E-mail:
+1973.386-6976 pfeder@alcatel-lucent.com
Venue:
802.16 Session #52 Closing Plenary
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None.
Purpose:
IEEE 802.21 Liaison Group presentation to closing plenary of the WG containing plan for the week
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Submission Slide 1

Nov 2007 L802.16-07/071r1
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Charter
– Develop standards to enable handover and interoperability between heterogeneous networks, including both 802 and non-802 networks
• Transition glue between 802.11 and other network technologies
– Including: 802.3, 802.16, cellular
• Overview
– Tutorial in July 2006 IEEE 802 plenary session
• http://www.ieee802.org/802_tutorials/index.htm
– Planning new tutorial for March 2008 IEEE 802 plenary session
Submission Slide 2

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Interfacing between 802 and other technologies
– Great variety of designs, parameters, interfaces, addresses, names
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Wider constituency than rest of 802
– Every 802 MAC/PHY technology
– Cellular SDOs: 3GPP, 3GPP2
– Cellular and other network developers
– Network operators
– Regulatory bodies, government agencies and initiatives
• European Commission Ambient Networks
• IMT Advanced
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Parameters on multiple layers of networks
– PHY, MAC, Data Link, IP, Applications, Services all are relevant
Submission Slide 3

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Initial Sponsor Ballot Issued Aug 2007
• 165 Sponsor Members
– Much larger than the 802.21 Work Group (currently 73 WG voters)
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Ballot Progress
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Initial Sponsor Ballot completed Sept 17, 2007
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Approval Ratio 62%; 650 comments
• Comments
– Large number of comments from 802.11 members: Good
– Some impossible to satisfy comments: Bad
• Example: “Document needs to be a recommended practice.”
• Example: “Define conformance criteria.”
Submission Slide 4

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• All 650 SB comments resolved between Sept, Oct and Nov meetings
• Going for SB re-circulation at end of Nov-07. Currently at 62%
Approval, Aiming for RevCom submission by March-2008
• 802.11u (in LB) has incorporated all of MIH changes and has included a MAC State Convergence Function in it’s reference diagram for supporting 802.21 messages
• Multi-Radio Power Conservation Management
– Behcet Sarikaya (Huawei) Study Group Chair
• Problem statement is questioned
• TR is available
• Security Signaling
– Yoshiro Ohba (Toshiba) Study Group Chair
– Long list of presentations, including
• 401 Security Signaling Performance
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402 MIH Key Hierarchy
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387 Security Signaling
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403 Security Use Cases
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390 Security Use Case Scenarios
Submission Slide 5

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802.1
– Comments indicated a number of issues with 802.1 LinkSec group
– 802.21 will invite 802.1 to present suggestions for interface with 802.21
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802.11u
– 802.21 and TGu coordinated ad-hoc meetings
– 802.11u now provides excellent support of MIH
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802.16
– In 2008, planning to work more closely with 802.16m
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3GPP
– Of course 3GPP documents can’t reference the incomplete 802.21 document
– But 3GPP SA2 and RAN both working with members of 802.21
– The 802.21 Information Server (IS) model is now part of the 3GPP architecture
– 3GPP completed document TR36.938 that includes 802.21 interface
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MIH measurements from the LTE side; WiMAX – LTE handover
– 802.21 work item phase next year
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DVB
– Presentation on DVBH handovers this afternoon: 21-07-0360-00-DVB-Presentation.ppt
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IMT Advanced
– 802.21 submitted requirements to ITU through 802.18
– More work planned in January
Submission Slide 6

Nov 2007 L802.16-07/071r1
• Sponsor Ballot: 165 voters
– WG only had only 69 voters
• Initial Sponsor Ballot completed Sept 2007
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Second Sponsor Ballot after this session
– In September completed half of 650 comments from initial sponsor ballot
– Almost 200 treated in October ad-hoc meeting
– Completing the remainder this session
– 8 voters so far have indicated that they will change their votes
• Pending agreed-on changes
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Still Plan to Submit to RevCom March 2008
Submission Slide 7

Nov 2007
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This document
• Thanks to Vivek Gupta, Chair of 802.21
• All Documents
– http://www.ieee802.org/21
• All submissions are open to the public
– http://www.ieee802.org/21/doctree/
• Current draft is in the members-only area
L802.16-07/071r1
Submission Slide 8