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March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Response to Comments on LC SG PAR and CSD Date: 2018 -3 -2 Authors: Submission Slide 1 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Abstract This slide deck documents the comments on LC SG PAR and CSD, and the corresponding response from LC SG. Submission Slide 2 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Introduction • Comments against draft PAR in doc. 11 -17/1604 r 8 and draft CSD in doc. 11 -17/1603 r 7 are received from – Bob Grow (treated during Feb conference call) – James Gilb – Paul Nikolich – IEEE 802. 3 • The SG is expected to provide responses to the received comments before 6: 30 PM Wednesday (March 7 th) Submission Slide 3 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Response to comments from Bob Grow - treated during Feb conference call - resolutions can be found at https: //mentor. ieee. org/802. 11/dcn/18/11 -18 -0387 -01 -00 lc-lcpar-csd-comments. xls - Comment and resolutions are reproduced in the following pages Submission Slide 4 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from Bob Grow on PAR • Comment: – General. Because of observed inconsistencies, it appears that this PAR was not generated on the my. Project system. The my. Project system should be used. It provides easy access to instructions, assures use of current forms (simplifying review) and minimizes entry errors after 802 approval. • Response: – my. Project will used by Li Qiang (John) and Jon Rosdahl as editors for the final PAR document Submission Slide 5 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from Bob Grow on PAR • Comment: – 5. 5. This need statement mostly expresses a technology push based project, not a market demand justified project. The increase in availability of unlicensed spectrum provided by light covered in the Broad Market Potential is better at justifying from a market side than does this need statement. • Response: Changing the following sentence: – “The wider context for the economic considerations for LC is presented in doc. 11 -17/0803 r 1 (https: //mentor. ieee. org/802. 11/dcn/17/11 -17 -0803 -01 -00 lceconomic-considerations-for-lc. ppt)” – To – “The wider context for the economic considerations like decreasing costs for LEDs/LDs and the availability of higher frequency spectrum for LC is presented in doc. 11 -17/0803 r 1 (https: //mentor. ieee. org/802. 11/dcn/17/11 -17 -0803 -01 -00 lc -economic-considerations-for-lc. ppt). John Li (Huawei) Submission Slide 6

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from Bob Grow on PAR • Comment: – 5. 6. So a company that views itself as an established Io. T company isn’t a stakeholder? A small or medium sized industrial manufacturer isn’t a stake holder? • Response: – Revised. Delete "emerging" and "large". New text to read: – "Stakeholders include chip makers to deliver PHY & MAC subsystems, system integrators and lighting companies, telecom operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Io. T companies, industrial manufacturers, aviation and transportation industries. " Submission Slide 7 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from Bob Grow on PAR • Comment: – 5. 5 The stakeholder list does not agree with the CSD Broad Market Potential answer. The Broad Market answer basically says light communications is applicable everywhere existing radio PHY wireless LANs are used. • Response: – The set of stakeholders in the updated PAR and CSD are now consistent – The "Broad Market Potential" Section 1. 2. 1 (a) looks at the "Broad set of applicability" that aims to identify the possible use-cases for the technology. Submission Slide 8 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from Bob Grow on PAR • Comment: – 6. 1. b Had the PAR been prepared on my. Project, the person preparing the PAR would know that an explanation is required for a yes answer. Is a new registry being proposed? Is the amendment expected to produce new text with registry related content? (If so, what registry? ) If the amendment will only be using existing capabilities (e. g. , using and not modifying existing specifications for transmission of frames, and not changing or adding specifications for what addresses are used in those frames) then that is not a registry activity. • Response: – Revised. Include in Section 6. 1. b : "Project may define new Management frames (extending the existing 802. 11 frame structure) to support its new features. These frames will include fields that contain 48 -bit MAC addresses. It is not expected that any new namespaces for allocation under RAC control will be defined. " Submission Slide 9 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from Bob Grow on PAR • • Comment: – 7. 1. Had the PAR been prepared on my. Project, the person preparing the PAR would know that an explanation is required. Why an additional standard is needed for a yes answer, not just a list of the similar scope standards. The PAR form instruction reads: "Identify any standard(s) or project(s) of similar scope(s), both within or outside of the IEEE, and explain the need for an additional standard in this area. “ Response: – – Revise PAR (doc. 11 -17/1604 r 8) Section 7. 1 to include the explanation from the CSD (doc. 11 -17/1603 r 7) Section 1. 2. 3, which reads: "The difference between LC and the existing IEEE 802 light based communication standards is the use of the IEEE 802. 11 MAC as well as the reuse of associated services. This new approach will allow LC to address a wider range of use cases that are served by local wireless area networks compared to the existing (IEEE P 802. 15. 7 m and IEEE P 802. 15. 13) efforts that are focusing on deploying the technology for optical camera communications, low data rate photodiode communications, and industrial applications. The key difference between the ITU-T G. vlc effort compared to the proposed IEEE 802. 11 LC amendment is the use of the IEEE 802. 11 MAC as well as the targeted deployment of the technology in wider range of use cases including electromagnetic interference (EMI) sensitive environments, in contrast to the focused home networking use-case for the G. vlc technology. Critically, being part of the IEEE 802. 11 ecosystem enables LC to leverage the existing brand awareness and processes for product development, testing and market introduction. Tight integration with IEEE 802. 11, the coexistence and hand-over with other IEEE 802. 11 PHY types (through the use of Fast-Session Transfer) will help to increase the LC market by addressing large volume applications together with traditional lighting. " Submission Slide 10 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Response to comments from James Gilb Submission Slide 11 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 5. 2. b Scope of the project — The scope should state if this is free space or fiber communications • Response: – Accept. Revised text: – This amendment specifies a new physical (PHY) layer and modifications to the IEEE 802. 11 medium access control (MAC) that enable operation of wireless light communications (LC). Submission Slide 12 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 5. 2. b Scope of the project — The scope should state the target distance for the links. If there is a range of distances, list them. • Response: – Revise, the description of range of distances is inserted in CSD 1. 2. 4 as follows: – The distance of LC link varies from tens of meters for indoor operations to hundreds of meters for outdoor operations depending on the use cases. Submission Slide 13 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 5. 2. b Scope of the project — "coexistance", should be "coexistence" • Response: – Accept. Revised text: – Overlapping basic service set (OBSS) detection and coexistance coexistence Submission Slide 14 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 5. 4 Purpose — I believe the correct response here is "This amendment will not have a purpose clause. " instead of the text "This amendment does not change the “Purpose” clause of IEEE 802. 11" • Response: – Accept Submission Slide 15 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 5. 5 Need for the project — Delete "significant" • Response: – Accept, delete the first instance – 5. 5 Need for the Project: A significant variety of LC vendors currently build various, non-standardized, products for many usecases that could have significant market growth. Submission Slide 16 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 6. 1. b — If the answer here is yes, you need to provide an explanation. • Response: – Revised. Include in Section 6. 1. b : – "Project may define new Management frames (extending the existing 802. 11 frame structure) to support its new features. These frames will include fields that contain 48 -bit MAC addresses. It is not expected that any new namespaces for allocation under RAC control will be defined. " Submission Slide 17 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: • 7. 1 — Verify that the titles of the 802. 15 standards are correct. They seem to be incorrect. • Response: – Accept: revise to – Project Title: Part 15. 7 Revision: Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications IEEE P 802. 15. 7 Standard for Short-Range Wireless Optical Communication – Project Title: Part 15. 13: Standard for Multi-Gigabit per Second Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) with Ranges up to 200 meters IEEE P 802. 15. 13 Standard for Multi-Gigabit per Second Optical Wireless Communications (OWC) with Ranges up to 200 John Li (Huawei) Submission meters Slide 18

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on PAR • Comment: – 8. 1— "Requitements" should be "Requirements“ • Response: – Accept Submission Slide 19 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment: • 1. 2. 1— Spell out IR • Response: – Accept – The light spectrum, for the most part, has been underutilised for free space communication. Both the visible light spectrum and the IR infrared (IR) spectrum are unlicensed and could be used primarily in short-range wireless scenarios. In addition, the use of light for communications also supports the increasingly dense deployment of smaller and smaller cells. Submission Slide 20 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment – 1. 2. 1 "IEEE P 802. 11 aj and P 802. 11 ay" should be "IEEE Std 802. 11 aj and IEEE P 802. 11 ay“ • Response – Accept Submission Slide 21 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment – 1. 2. 1 “underutilised" should be "underutilized“ • Response – Accept Submission Slide 22 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment – 1. 2. 1 Missing blank line after first paragraph in b) and extra blank lines at the end of the subsection • Response – Accept Submission Slide 23 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment 1. 2. 3 – Add "IEEE" in front of 802. (line 21) – Add "IEEE" in front of 802. 11 (5 locations) – Add "IEEE" in front of 802. 15 (2 locations) • Response – Accept, in addition, add “P” in front of “ 802. 15. 7 m” and “ 802. 15. 13” Submission Slide 24 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment – 1. 2. 4: The purpose of the CSD is to enable the reviewer to evaluate the proposed project. Placing a significant amount of the content in external documents is not responsive to the question. Provide a short list of the work that demonstrates the hardware feasibility and then point to a document for more information. • Response – Revise, the revised text is – The LC-TIG report provides a list of publications and examples of hardware feasibility of LC. The LC-TIG report can be found at https: //mentor. ieee. org/802. 11/dcn/17/11 -17 -0023 -09 -00 lc-lc-tigdraft-report-outline. docx. Submission Slide 25 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment – 1. 2. 4 Delete "significant" in "significant variety « • Response – Accept Submission Slide 26 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment – 1. 2. 4: In b), the existence of the mature 802. 11 technology is not relevant to this project. You are supposed to answer regarding the proposed addition, which has not been tested. Focus here on listing similar technology in this section, e. g. , LC type devices, that already exist. Again, placing essentially all of the content in an external document is not helpful. – Delete "The amendment will use modeling and simulation as tools for evaluating performance metrics. " The question is asking if there is _currently_ simulation and modeling to support technical feasibility. Submission Slide 27 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Response – Delete “presentent “ in 1. 2. 1 (b) – Spell out LED in 1. 2. 1 (b) – Revise the first paragraph of 1. 2. 4(b) into • Wireless communication using infrared band is a proven commercialized technology. These principles can be directly extended to visible light band using LED which are also used for illumination. The technology has been thoroughly studied using modeling and simulations in literature. A variety of LC vendors currently build various, non-standardized, products. An example list of these products can be found in the LC-TIG report – Delete "The amendment will use modeling and simulation as tools for evaluating performance metrics. " Submission Slide 28 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from James Gilb on CSD • Comment 1. 2. 5 – Missing line after first paragraph in a) – Change "emoding" to be "implementing" – Missing line after first paragraph in b) – Missing line after first paragraph in d) – Extra blank lines at the end. – o Delete all of the text following e). Answering e) is optional (answering any of a-d is optional as well). Also, the text does not address economic feasibility. • Response – Accept, in addition, systematically check whether the standard/project index are correctly formulated. Submission Slide 29 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comment from Paul Nikolich Submission Slide 30 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comment from Paul Nikolich on PAR • • Comment – 1) in 2. 1 Title: change "light communications" to "light wave operation". Rationale: "Light Communications" is too broad for use in the title (LC is used in a wide variety of ways in the PAR and CSD, e. g. LC PHY, LC devices, LC vendor, LC systems, LC market, etc. ). – "Light wave operation" better reflects (what I perceive) to be the principle objective of the project -- specifying an 802. 11 standard amendment defining operation over light wave carrier frequencies. Please consider making the change in the Title, and only in the Title. I believe the remainder of "light communication" and "LC" instances do not need change or be modified. Response – The LC SG evaluated your option to make a change to the title along with the subsequent changes that would be required to make that change, and determined to maintain the existing title, see straw poll on slide 18 in doc. 11 -18/315 r 2. – This amendment is to the Wireless LAN standard and thus wireless operation is indicated Submission Slide 31 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comment from 802. 3 Submission Slide 32 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from 802. 3 on PAR • Comment – General — Because of observed inconsistencies, it appears that this PAR was not generated on the my. Project system. Thank you for the preview of a my. Project version, some comments may highlight things corrected in that my. Project version. • Response: – my. Project will be used by Li Qiang (John) and Jon Rosdahl as editors for the final PAR document Submission Slide 33 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from 802. 3 on PAR • • Comment: – 5. 5 — This need statement mostly expresses a technology push based project, not a market demand justified project. The increase in availability of unlicensed spectrum provided by light covered in the Broad Market Potential is better at justifying from a market side than does this need statement. Please improve to describe market demand. Response: – Changing the following sentence: – “The wider context for the economic considerations for LC is presented in doc. 1117/0803 r 1 (https: //mentor. ieee. org/802. 11/dcn/17/11 -17 -0803 -01 -00 lc-economicconsiderations-for-lc. ppt)” – To – “The wider context for the economic considerations like decreasing costs for LEDs/LDs and the availability of unregulated light spectrum for LC is presented in doc. 1117/0803 r 1 (https: //mentor. ieee. org/802. 11/dcn/17/11 -17 -0803 -01 -00 lc-economicconsiderations-for-lc. ppt). Submission Slide 34 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from 802. 3 on PAR • Comment – 5. 6 — So a company that views itself as an established Io. T company isn’t a stakeholder? A small or medium sized industrial manufacturer isn’t a stake holder? Delete “established”, “large”. • Response: – Revised. Delete "emerging" and "large". New text to read: – "Stakeholders include chip makers to deliver PHY & MAC subsystems, system integrators and lighting companies, telecom operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Io. T companies, industrial manufacturers, aviation and transportation industries. " Submission Slide 35 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from 802. 3 on PAR • Comment: – The stakeholder list does not agree with the CSD Broad Market Potential answer. The Broad Market answer basically says light communications is applicable everywhere existing radio PHY wireless LANs are used. Please make the documents consistent. • Response: – The set of stakeholders in the updated PAR and CSD are now consistent – The "Broad Market Potential" Section 1. 2. 1 (a) looks at the "Broad set of applicability" that aims to identify the possible use-cases for the technology. Submission Slide 36 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from 802. 3 on PAR • Comment: – Had the PAR been prepared on my. Project, the person preparing the PAR would know that an explanation is required. Why an additional standard is needed for a yes answer, not just a list of the similar scope standards. The PAR form instruction reads: “Identify any standard(s) or project(s) of similar scope(s), both within or outside of the IEEE, and explain the need for an additional standard in this area. ” • Response: see next page Submission Slide 37 John Li (Huawei)

March 2018 doc. : IEEE 802. 11 -18 -0559 -01 -00 lc Comments from 802. 3 on PAR • Response – 7. 1 Revise PAR (doc. 11 -17/1604 r 8) Section 7. 1 to include the explanation from the CSD (doc. 1117/1603 r 7) Section 1. 2. 3, which reads: – "The difference between LC and the existing IEEE 802 light based communication standards is the use of the IEEE 802. 11 MAC as well as the reuse of associated services. This new approach will allow LC to address a wider range of use cases that are served by local wireless area networks compared to the existing (IEEE P 802. 15. 7 m and IEEE P 802. 15. 13) efforts that are focusing on deploying the technology for optical camera communications, low data rate photodiode communications, and industrial applications. The key difference between the ITU-T G. vlc effort compared to the proposed IEEE 802. 11 LC amendment is the use of the IEEE 802. 11 MAC as well as the targeted deployment of the technology in wider range of use cases including electromagnetic interference (EMI) sensitive environments, in contrast to the focused home networking use-case for the G. vlc technology. Critically, being part of the IEEE 802. 11 ecosystem enables LC to leverage the existing brand awareness and processes for product development, testing and market introduction. Tight integration with IEEE 802. 11, the coexistence and hand-over with other IEEE 802. 11 PHY types (through the use of Fast-Session Transfer) will help to increase the LC market by addressing large volume applications together with traditional lighting. " Submission Slide 38 John Li (Huawei)