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Plan and agenda for the October 17, 2013 IEEE 802.11 Regulatory Standing Committee teleconference, addressing various administrative items, coexistence issues, spectrum management, and updates from ETSI.
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IEEE 802.11 Regulatory SCDRAFT Teleconference Plan and Agenda Date: 2013-10-17 Authors: Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Abstract This presentation is the plan for the October 17, 2013 IEEE 802.11 Regulatory Standing Committee teleconference. Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Agenda • Assign a recording secretary • Administrative items • ITS / DSRC coexistence Tiger Team • Ofcom consultations • The future role of spectrum sharing for wireless data services • TV White Spaces: approach to coexistence • Spectrum management strategy: Ofcom’s approach to and priorities for spectrum management over the next ten years • ETSI ERM TG11 and ETSI BRAN updates • AOB Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Administrative Items • Required notices • Affiliation FAQ - http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/affiliationFAQ.html • Anti-Trust FAQ - http://standards.ieee.org/resources/antitrust-guidelines.pdf • Ethics - http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/about/CoE_poster.pdf • IEEE 802.11 Working Group Policies and Procedures - https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/public-file/07/11-07-0360-04-0000-802-11-policies-and-procedures.doc • Chair and Secretary • Chair is Rich Kennedy (BlackBerry) • Chair will act as Recording Secretary • Please send an email to the addresses below to have your attendance recorded • rikennedy@blackberry.com • pecclesi@cisco.com Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
SC Operating Rules • Anybody can vote, present, and make motions • Participation in SC during 802.11 WG Plenary or Interim counts towards 802.11 voting rights • All motions must pass by a 75% majority Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Other Guidelines for IEEE WG Meetings • All IEEE-SA standards meetings shall be conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, including antitrust and competition laws. • Don’t discuss the interpretation, validity, or essentiality of patents/patent claims. • Don’t discuss specific license rates, terms, or conditions. • Relative costs, including licensing costs of essential patent claims, of different technical approaches may be discussed in standards development meetings. • Technical considerations remain primary focus • Don’t discuss or engage in the fixing of product prices, allocation of customers, or division of sales markets. • Don’t discuss the status or substance of ongoing or threatened litigation. • Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed … do formally object. --------------------------------------------------------------- See IEEE-SA Standards Board Operations Manual, clause 5.3.10 and “Promoting Competition and Innovation: What You Need to Know about the IEEE Standards Association's Antitrust and Competition Policy” for more details. Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Introduction • Purpose • Improve the working relationship between the technical experts and the regulatory specialists, especially when it comes to critical technical issues • Scope • The group will review new regulatory changes or impending changes affecting 802.11 standards • Each meeting will focus on the most critical issue at the time • Critical Issue Focus • Direct impact on IEEE 802.11 current and future standards • Response/Input deadlines • Coordination with IEEE 802.18 (RR-TAG) • Coordination with the Wi-Fi Alliance • Outputs from this group must go through 802.18 Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
DSRC Coexistence Tiger Team • What should be the outcome from the group? • Set of coexistence requirements for 802.11 in the 5 GHz band with ITS safety of life and property communications in the 5.9 GHz band • Form a group to provide a formal interface to other organizations in the automotive industry, NHTSA, DOT and other ITS players • What is the required milestone timeline • Dependent upon the FCC et al, progress on the rollout of the standards, technologies and laws • Outcome of experiments prior to rulemaking; proof of concepts • August 21, 2013 completion of project; data to follow • CAMP/DOT testing and validating • Last TT meeting October 9th at 1:00pm ET • Minutes: 11-13/1071r0 • Next meeting October 18th at 1:00pm ET Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Ofcom Consultation #1 The future role of spectrum sharing for wireless data services • Publication date: 9 August 2013 • Closing Date for Responses: 9 November 2013 • Website: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/spectrum-sharing/?utm_source=updates&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=spectrum-sharing • Consultation document: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-sharing/summary/Spectrum_Sharing.pdf Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #1 Questions The future role of Wi-Fi in helping to meet the demand for wireless data services • Question 1: How is demand for indoor wireless data connection speeds and capacity likely to develop over the next 5–10 years? • Question 2: Will an extension of the 5 GHz band be required if Wi-Fi is to play a sustainable role in meeting the growing demand for indoor wireless connectivity? • Question 3: Are there other types of indoor wireless applications will require access to alternative spectrum other than that provided by the licence exempt 2.4 and 5 GHz bands used by Wi-Fi? • Question 4: What role do you think Wi-Fi will play in providing wireless broadband connectivity outdoors over the coming 5-10 years? • Question 5: Will the increased deployment of Wi-Fi access points outdoors create a risk of reduced quality of service performance over the longer term and, if so, will approaches to coordinate access point performance be able to mitigate this risk? • Question 6: Will improved approaches to accessing spectrum in licence exempt bands be needed in the longer term to maintain the quality of service achievable for outdoor public mobile broadband and/or M2M services? If so, which approaches are most likely to be adopted and how likely do you think they are to be successful in improving access to spectrum? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #1 Questions [2] Increasing spectrum supply and better managing its use • Question 7: Which frequency bands are most likely to be best suited to providing geographical shared access, including via a geolocation database approach, for use by mobile broadband, for example small cells and M2M applications? • Question 8: Would access to these bands best be realised through licensing or licenceexemption? • Question 9: Do you believe that tiered shared access to a range of spectrum bands has a role in meeting demand for mobile and wireless data and, if so, which applications and devices do you think will be particularly suited to this access model? • Question 10: Do you believe DSA could play an important future role in the future in enabling a better quality of service and low barriers to spectrum access alongside conventional licensed and LE spectrum approaches? • Question 11: What barriers still remain to the realisation of cost-effective sensing appropriate for low-cost consumer devices and what activities are ongoing to try to address them? • Question 12: Over what timescales could DSA become a mass market proposition? • Question 13: What role should Ofcom play, if any, to support the development of DSA and relevant technologies? • Question 14: Do you have any other views on any of the issues discussed in this consultation? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #1 Questions [3] Supporting innovation through short-term access to shared spectrum • Question 15: What are the frequency bands that would be of most value for R&D purposes? • Question 16: What are the potential benefits of using a geolocation database approach for short-term access to spectrum for R&D and how would you see this working from a practical perspective? Are there alternative approaches that could deliver similar benefits? • Question 17: What characteristics do you view as important to researchers in arrangements to facilitate temporary access to spectrum for research and development purposes? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Ofcom Consultation #2 TV White spaces: approach to coexistence • Publication date: 4 September 2013 • Closing Date for Responses: 15 November 2013 • Website: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/white-space-coexistence/?utm_source=updates&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=white-spaces-condoc • Consultation document: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/white-space-coexistence/summary/white-spaces.pdf Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #2 Questions • Q1: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach to ensuring a low probability of harmful interference to DTT services? Please state your reasons for your comments. • Q2: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach to ensuring a low probability of harmful interference to PMSE services? Please state your reasons for your comments. • Q3: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach to ensuring a low probability of harmful interference to 4G services above the UHF TV band? Please state your reasons for your comments. • Q4: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach to ensuring a low probability of harmful interference to services below the UHF TV band? Please state your reasons for your Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #2 Questions [2] • Question T1: Do you have any comments on our proposal to cap the maximum in-block EIRP of all WSDs at 36 dBm/(8 MHz)? • Question T2: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for calculating WSD emission limits, as expressed in Equation (4.3), in relation to DTT coexistence calculations? • Question T3: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for dealing with the uncertainty in the locations of DTT receivers in relation to DTT calculations? • Question T4: Do you have any comments on our proposed target of a 10% likelihood of a 1 dB rise in the noise-plus-interference floor at the edge of DTT coverage? • Question T5: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for calculating coupling gains in relation to DTT calculations? • Question T6: Do you have any comments on our proposed protection ratios in relation to DTT calculations? • Question T7: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for dealing with the uncertainty in the locations of WSDs in relation to DTT calculations? • Question T8: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for calculating WSD emission limits, as expressed in Equation (5.2), in relation to PMSE coexistence calculations? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #2 Questions [3] • Question T9: Do you have any comments on the PMSE wanted signal power levels that we propose in relation to coexistence calculations? • Question T10: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for calculating coupling gains in relation to PMSE calculations • Question T11: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for dealing with the uncertainty in the locations of WSDs in relation to PMSE calculations? • Question T12: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for dealing with the uncertainty in the locations of PMSE receivers in relation to PMSE calculations? • Question T13: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach for the derivation of WSD-PMSE coupling gains for non-geolocated slaves in relation to PMSE calculations? • Question T14: Do you have any comments on our proposed protection ratios in relation to PMSE calculations? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #2 Questions [4] • Question T15: Do you have any comments on our assessment that a margin for uncertainties in radio propagation is not necessary given the proposed parameters for derivation of coupling gains in relation to PMSE coexistence calculations? • Question T16: Do you have any comments on our proposed WSD emission limits in relation to PMSE use in channel 38? • Question T17: Do you have any comments on our proposal not to permit WSDs to operate in channel 60? • Question T18: Do you have any comments on our proposal that, if the unwanted emissions limit (over 230-470 MHz) in the draft ETSI standard (EN 301 598) is tightened by 8 dB, there should be no further restrictions on the operation of WSDs in relation to services below the UHF TV band? • Question T19: Do you have any comments on our proposal that, if unwanted emissions limit (over 230-470 MHz) in the draft ETSI standard (EN 301 598) is not changed, there should be restrictions on the in-block powers of WSDs in channels 21 to 23? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Ofcom Consultation #3 Spectrum management strategy: Ofcom’s approach to and priorities for spectrum management over the next ten years • Publication date: 2 October 2013 • Closing Date for Responses: 11 December 2013 • Website: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/spectrum-management-strategy/ • Consultation document: http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-management-strategy/summary/spectrum_management_strategy.pdf Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #3 Questions • Question 1: Have we captured all the major trends that are likely to impact spectrum use over the next ten years in this section and the separate Appendix on sectoral developments? Are there other market, technology or international developments that could lead to significant changes in spectrum demand and supply over the next 10 years? • Question 2: Do you have any comments on this summary of our approach to spectrum management and on the principles discussed in Annex 5? • Question 3: Do you think we have adopted the right approach to analysing future trends and developments that could raise the need for future regulatory action? • Question 4: What are your views on the results of our analysis of future developments summarised in this section and discussed in greater detail in the Appendix to this consultation? Please provide evidence in support of your views wherever possible • Question 5: Do you agree that a consideration of mobile and wireless data demands should feature as a priority area in our work programme for the next ten years? Have we captured all the major issues that we should consider within this area? • Question 6: Do you agree that the future of PMSE spectrum access should feature as a priority area in our work programme for the next ten years? Have we captured all the major issues that we should consider within this area? Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #3 Questions [2] • Question 7: Do you agree that the implementation of our 700 MHz strategy and the longer term future of DTT should feature as a priority area in our work programme for the next ten years? Have we captured all the major issues that we should consider within this area? • Question 8: Do you agree that a consideration of competing demands for spectrum at 450 -470 MHz should feature as a priority area in our work programme for the next ten years? Have we captured all the major issues that we should consider within this area? • Question 9: Do you agree that spectrum sharing should feature as a priority area in our work programme for the next ten years? Have we captured all the major issues that we should consider within this area? • Question 10: Do you agree that, in future, we should consider whether and how to play a greater role in supporting improvements to the performance of RF transmitters and receivers? What are your views on the potential future role for regulation in this area? • Question 11: Are there other issues or potential future challenges that you consider should feature as a priority in our work programme for the next ten years? Please provide evidence in support of your views wherever possible Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Consultation #3 Questions [3] • Question 12: Do you consider that tracking these metrics could be a useful way to help monitor the effects that our spectrum management strategy has on the nature of spectrum access and how this changes over time? Are there any other indicators that we should be seeking to track for these purposes? • Question 13: Do you consider that targeted spectrum utilisation measurements could be useful in informing future spectrum management initiatives? What type of specific uses or bands could be the subject of future measurement studies, and why? Please provide evidence in support of your views wherever possible Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
EN 300 328 & EN 301 893 Reminder • Most recent versions contain issues that must be considered • 2.4 GHz “Adaptivity” requires all devices to utilize CCA mode 1 only • 5 GHz Adaptivity also requires ED • Power/PSD testing requires complex and or expensive tests • These versions become mandatory on January 1, 2015 • Wi-Fi and BT industries should get behind new versions that would begin voluntary status the same day • EN 300 328v1.9.1 • EN 301 893v1.8.1 Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
ETSI ERM TG11 and ETSI BRAN • Met last week in Sophia Antipolis • BRAN • Adding additional measures to ensure DFS cannot be bypassed • TG11 • New test methodology to simplify that in EN 300 328v1.8.1 • Heard a proposal from the Industrial Automation industry to add a “Central Control Point” to the 2.4 GHz band • Analysis not complete (802.11b-only) • Will bring completed version in February • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth industries responded with questions and concerns with the IA proposal Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
Any Other Actual Business Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
References • R&O/FNPRM/NOI FCC 13-39 • http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-13-39A1.pdf • Ofcom future spectrum sharing consultation • http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-sharing/summary/Spectrum_Sharing.pdf • Ofcom TV White spaces: approach to coexistence • http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/white-space-coexistence/summary/white-spaces.pdf • Ofcom spectrum management consultation • http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/consultations/spectrum-management-strategy/summary/spectrum_management_strategy.pdf Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation
References [2] • EN 300 328 v1.8.1 • http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300300_300399/300328/01.08.01_60/en_300328v010801p.pdf • EN 301 893v1.7.1: • http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/301800_301899/301893/01.07.00_40/en_301893v010700o.pdf Rich Kennedy, BlackBerry Corporation