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March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 March 2005 Mesh Agenda Date: 2005 -03 -17 Authors: Name Address Company Phone Email Donald Eastlake 3 rd 111 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752 USA Motorola +1 -508 -786 -7554 Donald. Eastlake@motorola. com Notice: This document has been prepared to assist IEEE 802. 11. It is offered as a basis for discussion and is not binding on the contributing individual(s) or organization(s). The material in this document is subject to change in form and content after further study. The contributor(s) reserve(s) the right to add, amend or withdraw material contained herein. Release: The contributor grants a free, irrevocable license to the IEEE to incorporate material contained in this contribution, and any modifications thereof, in the creation of an IEEE Standards publication; to copyright in the IEEE’s name any IEEE Standards publication even though it may include portions of this contribution; and at the IEEE’s sole discretion to permit others to reproduce in whole or in part the resulting IEEE Standards publication. The contributor also acknowledges and accepts that this contribution may be made public by IEEE 802. 11. Patent Policy and Procedures: The contributor is familiar with the IEEE 802 Patent Policy and Procedures <http: // ieee 802. org/guides/bylaws/sb-bylaws. pdf>, including the statement "IEEE standards may include the known use of patent(s), including patent applications, provided the IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder or applicant with respect to patents essential for compliance with both mandatory and optional portions of the standard. " Early disclosure to the Working Group of patent information that might be relevant to the standard is essential to reduce the possibility for delays in the development process and increase the likelihood that the draft publication will be approved for publication. Please notify the Chair <stuart. kerry@philips. com> as early as possible, in written or electronic form, if patented technology (or technology under patent application) might be incorporated into a draft standard being developed within the IEEE 802. 11 Working Group. If you have questions, contact the IEEE Patent Committee Administrator at <patcom@ieee. org>. Submission 1 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 IEEE 802. 11 s: ESS Mesh Networking Task Group Atlanta, Georgia 16 -17 March 2005 Chair: Donald E. Eastlake 3 rd Donald. Eastlake@motorola. com +1 -508 -786 -7554 Editor: Steve Conner – Secretary: Stephen Rayment Submission 2 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Estimated General Flow of the TGs Meeting • Wednesday Morning – Administrivia – Brief Presentations Related to Proposals • Wednesday Afternoon – Brief Presentations Related to Proposals – Other Presentations – Discussion of Proposal Presentations Procedures for July and later and of Task Group Process • Thursday Afternoon – Other Presentations – Panels of Proposal Presenters – Motions on Proposal Presentations Procedures for July and later and of Task Group Process – Vote on teleconferences/ad-hoc meetings Submission 3 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Wednesday Morning, 16 March 2005 08: 00 -10: 00, Centennial I Room • Call to Order – On-line Attendance reminder • Review of IEEE 802 and 802. 11 Policies and Procedures on Intellectual Property and Inappropriate Topics • Minutes – Minutes of January 2005 Meeting Approved, 11 -05/45 r 0 – Minutes of the Teleconference held 23 February 2005 Approved, 11 -05/135 r 1 • Agenda Approved Submission 4 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 IEEE-SA Standards Board Bylaws on Patents in Standards 6. Patents IEEE standards may include the known use of patent(s), including patent applications, provided the IEEE receives assurance from the patent holder or applicant with respect to patents essential for compliance with both mandatory and optional portions of the standard. This assurance shall be provided without coercion and prior to approval of the standard (or reaffirmation when a patent becomes known after initial approval of the standard). This assurance shall be a letter that is in the form of either a) A general disclaimer to the effect that the patentee will not enforce any of its present or future patent(s) whose use would be required to implement the proposed IEEE standard against any person or entity using the patent(s) to comply with the standard or b) A statement that a license will be made available without compensation or under reasonable rates, with reasonable terms and conditions that are demonstrably free of any unfair discrimination This assurance shall apply, at a minimum, from the date of the standard's approval to the date of the standard's withdrawal and is irrevocable during that period. Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – December 2002 Submission 5 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Inappropriate Topics for IEEE TG Meetings • Don’t discuss licensing terms or conditions • Don’t discuss product pricing, territorial restrictions or market share • Don’t discuss ongoing litigation or threatened litigation • Don’t be silent if inappropriate topics are discussed… do formally object. If you have questions, contact the IEEE Patent Committee Administrator at patcom@ieee. org Approved by IEEE-SA Standards Board – December 2002 Submission 6 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Wednesday Morning, 16 March 2005 (Continued) 08: 00 -10: 00, Centennial I Room • Status of Task Group – – 35 Notices received of intent to submit a proposal 34 Accepted, 11 -05/112 r 7 9 requests for proposal linked presentation slots at this meeting 2 requests so far for proposal linked presentation slots at May meeting (deadline is May 13 th EST) • Moved, to accept the following 35 th notice of intent to submit a proposal: – – – Submission Contact Person: Bing Zhang Phone Number: +81 -774 -95 -1533 Email: zhang@atr. jp Tentative title: Proactive Mesh Networks (Pro. M) Yes: 32 No: 0 Abstain: 1 7 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Wednesday Morning, 16 March 2005 (Continued) 08: 00 -10: 00, Centennial I Room • O 8: 24, Slot A, Intent #10, “Proposed Extensible Approach for WLAN Mesh Standardization”, Steve Conner, 11 -05/165 r 1 – Straw poll, Yes: 51 No: 0 • 08: 48, Slot B, Intent #14, “ 802. 11 TGs Mesh Networking Proposal”, Jarkko Kneckt, Stefano Faccin, 11 -05/196 r 2 – Straw poll, Yes: 40 No: 0 • 09: 12, Slot C, Intent #24, “Mesh Interoperability Considerations”, Ike Nassi, 11 -05/166 r 1 – Straw poll, Yes: 45 No: 1 • 09: 36, Slot D, Intent #4, “Cooperative Communication in Mesh Networking”, Klaus Fosmark, 11 -05/143 – Straw poll, Yes: 14 No: 6 • 10: 00, recess until 13: 30 Submission 8 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Wednesday Afternoon, 16 March 2005 13: 30 – 15: 30, Dunwoody Room • • On-line attendance reminder 13: 30 Slot E, Intent #5, “A routing protocol for WLAN mesh networking”, Hang Liu, 11 -05/174 r 0 – • 13: 54 Slot F, Intent #23, ” Deployment Considerations in Wireless Mesh Networking”, Veera Anantha, 11 -05/268 r 0 – • Straw poll, Yes: 43 No: 1 15: 06 Slot I, Intent #32, Song Yean Cho, “Proposal for ESS Mesh”, 1105/263 r 0 – • Straw poll, Yes: 50 No: 0 14: 42 Slot H, Intent #26, “Proposal for Higher Spatial Reuse”, Jack Winters, 11 -05/267 r 0 – • Straw poll, Yes: 28 No: 0 14: 18 Slot G, Intent #3, “Proposal for a Dynamic Backbone Mesh”, Dennis Baker, 11 -05/142 r 0 – • Straw poll, Yes: 47 No: 1 Straw poll, Yes: 47 No: 0 15: 30, recess until 16: 00 Submission 9 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Wednesday Afternoon, 16 March 2005 16: 00 – 18: 00, Dunwoody Room • On-line attendance reminder • Technical Presentations and Discussion: – “Rbridges: Transparent Routing”, Radia Perlman, 11 -05/241 r 0 – “End-to-End Performance and Fairness in Multihop Wireless Backhaul Networks”, Violeta Gambiroza, 11 -05/168 r 0 • Presentations and Discussion on Process – “Proposal Presentation Procedures” for July and later, 1104/1539 r 3 – “Selection Procedure”, Juan Carlos Zuniga, 11 -05/274 r 0 – “TGs Process”, 11 -05/207 r 1 • Adjourn until 13: 30 Thursday Submission 10 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Thursday Afternoon, 17 March 2005 13: 30 – 15: 30, Centennial II Room • On-line attendance reminder • Technical Presentations and Discussion: – “Exposed terminal problem solution by using multiple channels”, Atsushi Fujiwara, 05/247 r 0 – “MAC Components in IEEE 802. 11 s”, Bahareh Sadeghi, 1105/167 r 1 • First Panel of Proposal Intenders – #10, Proposal for an extensible WLAN mesh networking standard (11 -05/165 r 1) – #14, 802. 11 TGs Mesh Networking Proposal (11 -05/196 r 2) – #24, 802. 11 s Mesh Portals (11 -05/166 r 1) – #32, the proposal for ESS Mesh (11 -05/263 r 0) Submission 11 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Thursday Afternoon, 17 March 2005 (continued) 13: 30 – 15: 30, Centennial II Room • Second Panel of Proposal Intenders – #3, Proposal for a Dynamic Backbone Mesh (11 -05/142 r 0) – [#4, Cooperative Communication in Mesh Netoworking, (probably not available Thursday)] (11 -05/143) – #5, A routing protocol for WLAN mesh networking (1105/174 r 0) – #23, Optimal design of Mesh networks (11 -05/268 r 0) – #26, Motia Proposal for 802. 11 s (11 -05/267 r 0) • Recess to 16: 00 Submission 12 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Thursday Afternoon, 17 March 2005 16: 00 – 18: 00, Centennial II Room • On-line attendance reminder • Technical Presentation and Discussion: “A security model for wireless meshs”, Robert Moskowitz (ICSA Labs), 11 -05/172 • Presentations, Discussion, and Motions on Process – “TGs Process”, 11 -05/207 r 2 • Voted to adopt the motto in the above submission. – “Proposal Presentation Procedures” for July and later, 1104/1539 r 3 – “Selection Procedure”, Juan Carlos Zuniga, 11 -05/274 r 1 – “Selection Procedure Recommendation”, Timothy Wakeley, 11 -05/300 r 3 – “TGs Downselect Alternative Timelines”, 11 -05/295 r 0 Submission 13 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 Thursday Afternoon, 17 March 2005 (continued) 16: 00 – 18: 00, Centennial II Room • Discussion and Motions on Teleconferences / ad hoc Meetings – Moved, that TGs hold a teleconference at 14: 00 Eastern Standard Time Wednesday 20 April 2005. Notice will be given on the mailing list, including UTC time, at least 10 days in advance. • Passed. – Moved, that the chair of TGs is directed to request that the 802. 11 Working Group approve a TGs ad hoc meeting as follows: • Date: [Aug 30 - Sep 1] • Place: [Portland, Oregon] • Purpose: Discussion of proposals. – Passed • Adjourn sine die Submission 14 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 [Reference Information] • • PAR for IEEE 802. 11 ESS Mesh: 11 -04/54 r 2 Five Criteria for IEEE 802. 11 ESS Mesh: 11 -04/56 r 1 Call for Proposals: 11 -04/1430 r 12 Proposal Presentation Procedures: 11 -04/1539 r 3 – (Only March and May procedures had been adopted, different procedures have been adopted for July and beyond) • Proposal Intents: 11 -05/112 r 7 • Adopted Task Group Working Documents as of 1/19/2005 • – 11 -04/1477 r 4: Terms and Definitions for 802. 11 s – 11 -04/1174 r 13: Functional Specification and Scope – 11 -04/1175 r 10: Comparison Categories and Informative Checklists – 11 -04/662 r 16: Usage Models – 11 -04/1543 r 4: Informative Reference Bibliography for 802. 11 s Miscellaneous – Earlier Mesh Submissions to WNG Study Group, see 11 -04/0047 r 0 – Graphs and Mesh, see 11 -04 -420 r 0 – “Free the APs” Button Graphics: 11 -04/518 r 0 Submission 15 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola

March 2005 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -05/113 r 7 [Earlier Minutes] • Task Group “s” Meeting Minutes – – January 2005 Meeting, Monterey, California, 11 -05/45 r 0 November 2004 Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 11 -04/1464 r 0 September 2004 Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 11 -04/1125 r 1 July 2004 Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 11 -04/853 r 0 • Teleconference Minutes since 1 January 2005 – 23 February 2005, 11 -05/125 r 1 – 5 January 2005, 11 -05/1588 r 1, 12 January 2005, 1105/1613 r 0 • MESH Study Group Meeting Minutes – May 2004 Meeting, Garden Grove, California, 11 -04/652 r 1 – March 2004 Meeting, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 11 -04/395 r 2 – January 2004 Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, 11 -04/110 r 2 Submission 16 Donald Eastlake 3 rd, Motorola