IEEE P802.11 - ULTRA HIGH RELIABILITY (UHR) STUDY GROUP (SG) - MEETING UPDATE

Status of IEEE 802.11 Ultra High Reliability (UHR) SG

Laurent Cariou, Chair

Page Contents

Background

Goals

September 2022

November 2022

January 2023

March 2023

May 2023

July 2023

September 2023 plan

Background

Ultra High Reliability is a new Study Group within the IEEE 802.11 working group that will investigate PHY and MAC technologies to improve reliability of WLAN connectivity, reduce latencies, increase manageability, increase throughput including at different SNR levels and reduce device level power consumption. The intention is to lead to the creation of a task group with a target start in May 2023.

The study group has been created in July 2022 and first meeting will happen in September 2022.

Goals

The goal of the IEEE 802.11 UHR Study Group is to produce a PAR and a CSD document for the creation of a task group.

In addition to creating the PAR and CSD, the purpose of the Study Group will be to continue discussions and the development of alignment on:

-          Objectives and targets/KPI’s

-          Frequency bands to be addressed

-          Potential technologies to be considered

-          Naming of the taskgroup

Useful contributions

-          22/0708r2 – Beyond be – Next step

-          22/1083r0 – Next generation SG formation

-          22/0965r1 – View on beyong be

-          22/0961r0 - Network Operator's Perspective on Next Generation WLAN

-          22/0932r0 - Thoughts on Beyond 802.11be

-          22/0779r0 - 802.11bx: Enabling Metaverse, AR/VR, and Wearables

-          22/0723r1 - Further discussion on next generation WLAN

-          22/0729r1 - Next generation after 802.11be - follow-up

-          22/0734r0 - Next Gen After 11be v2

-          22/0697r0 - Next Gen WLAN and XR

-          22/0694r0 - Thoughts on Next Gen WLAN

-          22/0685r0 - Discussion on next generation Wi-Fi

-          22/0418r0 - Considerations of Next Generation Beyond 11be

-          22/0046r1 - Next generation after 802.11be

-          22/0030r1 - Look ahead to next generation

-          22/0059r1 - Beyond 'be'

-          22/0032r0 - Next-Gen-After-11be

September 2022

We had 3 meeting sessions at the September meeting and went over 13 technical presentations covering different topics:

-          technical: Multi-AP

-          General views and band support

-          Use cases and requirements

-          Misc technical

Meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-1295-05-0uhr-uhr-sg-september-2022-meeting-agenda.pptx

Meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-1612-02-0uhr-uhr-sg-september-2022-meeting-minutes.docx

 

We also held 2 conference calls and went over 9 additional contributions.

Meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-1655-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-september-october-2022-teleconference-agendas.docx

Meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-1656-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-september-october-2022-teleconference-minutes.docx

 

November 2022

We had 3 meeting sessions at the November meeting and went over 15 technical presentations covering different topics:

·         Use cases and requirements

·         General views and band support

·         Misc technical

Meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-1720-07-0uhr-uhr-sg-november-2022-meeting-agenda.pptx

Meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-1817-00-0uhr-uhr-sg-november-2022-meeting-minutes.docx

 

We also held 2 conference calls since November 2022 and went over 10 additional contributions.

Meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-2089-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-november-december-2022-teleconference-agendas.docx

Meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-2091-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-november-december-2022-teleconference-minutes.docx

 

January 2023

We had 3 meeting sessions at the January meeting and went over 8 presentations and started discussing in more details the PAR document. We made progress toward finding consensus on the PAR section 5.2 (scope of the project), focusing on KPI/objectives description.

January meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/22/11-22-2135-07-0uhr-uhr-sg-january-2023-meeting-agenda.pptx

January meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0094-00-0uhr-uhr-sg-jan-2023-meeting-minutes.docx

We also held 2 conference calls since January 2023 and went over 9 additional contributions.

Teleconferences January-February agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0169-02-0uhr-uhr-sg-jan-feb-2023-teleconference-agendas.docx

Teleconferences January-February minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0192-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-jan-feb-2023-telecon-minutes.docx

 

 

March 2023

We had 3 meeting sessions at the March meeting.

A motion on inclusion of mmWave operating bands in the scope of UHR failed (50/50). A strawpoll on defining integrated operation on mmWave in a separate Study Group received strong support and was then later motioned by the working group and will be created under the name of IMMW (Integrated mmWave).

Following these agreements, we finalized the UHR PAR and CSD documents (https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0480-00-0uhr-uhr-proposed-par.pdf, https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0079-05-0uhr-uhr-draft-proposed-csd.docx) and reached agreement on these documents (PAR motion: 243y, 13n, 16a; CSD motion: 250y, 4n, 13a).

March meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0186-08-0uhr-uhr-sg-march-2023-meeting-agenda.pptx

March meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0409-00-0uhr-uhr-sg-march-2023-meeting-minutes.docx

We also held 4 conference calls since March 2023 and went over 20 additional contributions.

Teleconferences March-April agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0531-02-0uhr-uhr-sg-march-april-2023-teleconference-agendas.docx

Teleconferences March-April minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0532-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-mar-apr-2023-telecon-minutes.docx

May 2023

We had 4 meeting sessions at the May meeting and the meetings were focused on technical proposals to meet the PAR KPIs.

May meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0587-05-0uhr-uhr-sg-may-2023-meeting-agenda.pptx

May meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0785-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-may-2023-meeting-minutes.docx

We also held 4 conference calls since May 2023 and went over 16 additional contributions.

Teleconferences May-June agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0934-04-0uhr-uhr-sg-june-2023-teleconference-agendas.docx

Teleconferences May-June minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0937-03-0uhr-uhr-sg-june-2023-telecon-minutes.docx

July 2023

We had 5 meeting sessions at the July meeting. Priority was put into providing responses to comments from other WG on 802.11bn PAR and CSD documents. We updated 802.11bn PAR and CSD based on comments (PAR motion: 130Y, 4N, 11A, CSD motion: 129Y, 0N, 11A).

The 802.11bn PAR was eventually approved by the 802 EC.

We also went over 21 contributions focused on technical proposals addressing the PAR KPIs.

 

July meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-0975-09-0uhr-uhr-sg-july-2023-meeting-agenda.pptx

July meeting minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-1181-01-0uhr-uhr-sg-july-2023-meeting-minutes.docx

We also held 5 conference calls since July 2023 and went over many additional contributions.

Teleconferences July-August agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-1311-04-0uhr-uhr-sg-july-august-2023-teleconference-agendas.docx

Teleconferences July-August minutes: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-1313-04-0uhr-uhr-sg-july-august-2023-telecon-minutes.docx

September 2023 plan

Technical presentations and discussion addressing UHR PAR KPIs

Meeting agenda: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/23/11-23-1362-00-0uhr-uhr-sg-september-2023-meeting-agenda.pptx

 

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