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Re: [STDS-802-11-TGAX] TGax Telecon 20170727 (proposed Agenda)



Hi Mark,

 

              Thanks for the comment. I have made some revision based on your comments. A new vision will be uploaded.

 

              For the detailed response, please see below.

 

Best,

Po-Kai

 

 

 

This seems to have a self-contradictory or at least confusing resolution to CID 5772:

 

Based on the agreement for CID 7975, MU-RTS Trigger frame shall not be carried in a VHT MU PPDU or an HE MU PPDU due to the following reasons.

[…]

Except these restrictions, MU-RTS Trigger frame can be carried in HT PPDU or VHT PPDU format.

 

Is this trying to say that the answer to the commenter's

"Is it possible to transmit MU-RTS in HT PPDU or VHT PPDU format?" is "yes, except if it's

a VHT MU PPDU"?

 

[Po-Kai]: Yes. I can mention this directly in the resolution.

 

Also, the resolution talks of "if the MU-RTS frame is aggregated with other variants of Trigger frame"

and "if multiple MU-RTS is aggregated" but the comment is not about these cases

(which seem like strange corner cases).

 

 

[Po-Kai]: These texts are used to explain why MU-RTS shall not be carried in MU PPDU. I rewrite the sentence so that it can be understood as the explanation.

 

Re CID 9476, you say

 

"Our study indicates that except Power Management and Protected Frame subfields, which are reserved in CTS frame. All the other fields are already defined in the current spec, and the corresponding texts are shown below."

 

but the Protected Frame subfield is covered by

 

12.2.7 Requirements for the Protected Frame field

 

The Protected Frame field shall be set to 1 in:

— Data frames that are protected using the mechanisms specified in Clause 12 (Security).

— Individually addressed robust Management frames.

— Authentication frames with Authentication Algorithm Number field equal to 1 (Shared Key) and Authentication Transaction Sequence Number field equal to 3.

It shall be set to 0 in all other frames.

 

Additionally, Figure 9-19 already shows that this is 0 in Control frames.

 

[Po-Kai]: Thanks for pointing this out. I will refer to Figure 9-19 directly for most of the explanation.

 

I agree the More Data subfield is required by the baseline to be 0

in a CTS sent by a non-DMG STA.

 

My concern is the Power Management subfield.  Where exactly do you

see this being reserved in a CTS frame?  I agree that if it is indeed

reserved then that guarantees it will be 0 on tx for now (though for

safety it might be better to require it to be 0), but is it actually

reserved?

 

[Po-Kai]: I can explain my thought process here. Based on the spec texts, power management is only valid based on the frame exchange in 11.2.3 and 11.2.7. Since CTS frame does not give you an acknowledgement, power management field in CTS frame is not even valid. My original assumption is then that it is reserved. I then check again with Robert to see if “invalid” means “reserved”, but Robert said he does not know. I guess there could be an ambiguity here, so it may be worthwhile to say that power management field is set to 0 for CTS in response to MU-RTS. Corresponding sentence is added.

 

 

The Power Management subfield is 1 bit in length and is used to indicate the power management mode of a
STA. The value of this subfield is either reserved (as defined below) or remains constant in each frame from
a particular STA within a frame exchange sequence (see Annex G). The value indicates the mode of the
STA after the successful completion of the frame exchange sequence.
In an infrastructure BSS or PBSS, the following applies:
— The Power Management subfield is valid only in frame exchanges as described in 11.2.3 and 11.2.7.
In such exchanges, a value of 1 indicates that the STA will be in PS mode. A value of 0 indicates
that the STA will be in active mode.
— The Power Management subfield is reserved in all Management frames transmitted by a STA to an
AP or PCP with which it is not associated.
— The Power Management subfield is reserved in all frames transmitted by the AP.

 

 

From: Mark Rison [mailto:m.rison@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 5:11 AM
To: STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Osama AboulMagd <Osama.AboulMagd@xxxxxxxxxx>; liwenchu@xxxxxxxxxxx; Huang, Po-kai <po-kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: TGax Telecon 20170727 (proposed Agenda)

 

Unfortunately I shall not be able to attend this teleconf, since

it will be at 01:00 my time.  Some comments:

 

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1173-01-00ax-proposed-resolutions-to-cid-5011-6900-6998-and-9056.docx - Osama Aboul-Magd

 

The document referred to in this, 17/0090 suggests (I haven't checked) that

the 5 documents referred to on slide 8 provide further evidence that 11ax

will achieve the 4x improvement required by the PAR.  If this is so, it would

be worth mentioning them in the resolution too, or the commenter could

just object that 4x needs to be achieved for more than the one case of UL MU-MIMO.

 

·         11-17-1067-02-00ax-lb225-11ax-d1-0-comment-resolution of OMI Operation Mode – Liwen Chu (to be uploaded)

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1068-00-00ax-comment-resolution-10-7.docx - Liwen Chu

 

I think the "TGax editor makes changes in 11-17/1068 under CID blah" resolutions are

needlessly indirect and unhelpful to the commenters.  I suggest saying just

"Delete the changes to Subclause 10.7.6 (Rate selection for Control frames)".

 

Also, the resolution to CID 9559 does not seem to actually respond to it.

CID 9559 is about rate selection for Management frames but the resolution talks

of "Rate selection rules for both AP and STA.".

 

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1174-00-00ax-clauses-3-2-3-3-and-3-4-comment-resolution.docx - Osama Aboul-Magd

 

"multi-user" should have a hyphen.

What are the "(?)"s about?  (They're not shown using change tracking, which is doubly confusing.)

The definition of DSRP_PPDU is missing and also it's not in the alphabetical position.

"No more action is needed." should just be a note to the Editor (the commenter was apparently correct to say DL was missing in D1.0).

802.11ah is -2016 not -2017 (and not _2016 either).

"Hiwever “HE” by ioteself" has two typos.

"block ack request" should be "block acknowledgment request" (see the baseline).

"resue" should be "reuse".

There should probably be a definition of "HTP" and/or "HTP Ack".

 

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1183-01-00ax-cr-for-cid-5772-9476-9480.docx - Po-Kai Huang

 

This seems to have a self-contradictory or at least confusing resolution to CID 5772:

 

Based on the agreement for CID 7975, MU-RTS Trigger frame shall not be carried in a VHT MU PPDU or an HE MU PPDU due to the following reasons.

[…]

Except these restrictions, MU-RTS Trigger frame can be carried in HT PPDU or VHT PPDU format.

 

Is this trying to say that the answer to the commenter's

"Is it possible to transmit MU-RTS in HT PPDU or VHT PPDU format?" is "yes, except if it's

a VHT MU PPDU"?

 

Also, the resolution talks of "if the MU-RTS frame is aggregated with other variants of Trigger frame"

and "if multiple MU-RTS is aggregated" but the comment is not about these cases

(which seem like strange corner cases).

 

Re CID 9476, you say

 

"Our study indicates that except Power Management and Protected Frame subfields, which are reserved in CTS frame. All the other fields are already defined in the current spec, and the corresponding texts are shown below."

 

but the Protected Frame subfield is covered by

 

12.2.7 Requirements for the Protected Frame field

 

The Protected Frame field shall be set to 1 in:

— Data frames that are protected using the mechanisms specified in Clause 12 (Security).

— Individually addressed robust Management frames.

— Authentication frames with Authentication Algorithm Number field equal to 1 (Shared Key) and Authentication Transaction Sequence Number field equal to 3.

It shall be set to 0 in all other frames.

 

Additionally, Figure 9-19 already shows that this is 0 in Control frames.

 

I agree the More Data subfield is required by the baseline to be 0

in a CTS sent by a non-DMG STA.

 

My concern is the Power Management subfield.  Where exactly do you

see this being reserved in a CTS frame?  I agree that if it is indeed

reserved then that guarantees it will be 0 on tx for now (though for

safety it might be better to require it to be 0), but is it actually

reserved?

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

 

--

Mark RISON, Standards Architect, WLAN   English/Esperanto/Français

Samsung Cambridge Solution Centre       Tel: +44 1223  434600

Innovation Park, Cambridge CB4 0DS      Fax: +44 1223  434601

ROYAUME UNI                             WWW: http://www.samsung.com/uk

 

From: *** 802.11 TGax - HEW - High Efficiency WLAN *** [mailto:STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Osama AboulMagd
Sent: 26 July 2017 12:51
To:
STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-11-TGAX] TGax Telecon 20170727 (proposed Agenda)

 

Updated agenda.

 

Regards;

Osama.

 

From: *** 802.11 TGax - HEW - High Efficiency WLAN *** [mailto:STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Osama AboulMagd
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2017 7:48 AM
To: STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [STDS-802-11-TGAX] TGax Telecon 20170727 (proposed Agenda)

 

Hello All,

 

A proposed agenda for the telecom this week:

 

·         Call the meeting to order

·         IEEE 802 and 802.11 IPR policy and procedure

·         Attendance reminder. Please send an e.mail to Yasuhiko Inoue (Inoue.yasuhiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) and/or Osama Aboul-Magd (Osama.aboulmagd@xxxxxxxxxx)

·         Announcements

·         September ad hoc meeting

·          ePoll: https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/poll-vote?p=26500008&t=26500008

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1173-01-00ax-proposed-resolutions-to-cid-5011-6900-6998-and-9056.docx - Osama Aboul-Magd

·         11-17-1067-02-00ax-lb225-11ax-d1-0-comment-resolution of OMI Operation Mode – Liwen Chu (to be uploaded)

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1068-00-00ax-comment-resolution-10-7.docx - Liwen Chu

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1174-00-00ax-clauses-3-2-3-3-and-3-4-comment-resolution.docx - Osama Aboul-Magd

·         https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/17/11-17-1183-01-00ax-cr-for-cid-5772-9476-9480.docx - Po-Kai Huang

·         AoB

·         Adjourn

 

Please let me know if you have ay submission.

 

Regards;

Osama.

 

From: *** 802.11 TGax - HEW - High Efficiency WLAN *** [mailto:STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Osama AboulMagd
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 10:37 AM
To: STDS-802-11-TGAX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [STDS-802-11-TGAX] TGax Telecon 20170727

 

Hello All,

 

There is a TGax telecon scheduled on Thursday July 27 at 20:00 ET. Please let me know if you plan a submission.

  

 

Teleconferences are bound by the conditions stipulated by the documentation below. Please review them and bring up any questions/concerns you may have before proceeding with the teleconference

 

IEEE Patent Policy - http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/pat-slideset.ppt
Patent FAQ - 
http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/faq.pdf
LoA Form - 
http://standards.ieee.org/board/pat/loa.pdf
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 Operations’ Manual – 
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/14/11-14-0629-16-0000-802-11-operations-manual.docx

 

To join the meeting:

https://join.me/IEEE802.11

Conference ID: 808-571-868

  

Regards;

Osama.

 

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