[STDS-802-16-MOBILE] [Handoff] Handoff adhoc group
Title:
Dear 802.16e members and
observers,
Following discussions in Shenzhen last
week, we now have a handoff adhoc group within 802.16e. This group's overall
charter is to essentially come up with harmonized informative and normative text
and figures addressing handoffs in 802.16e - to be incorporated in the D3 draft
which will be available soon. The goal is to complete this effort prior to the
Portland plenary in July. As part of this effort, the group will extend the
vocabulary in the current .16e draft and related MAC primitives to support
handoff scenarios (including handoff optimizations) that we collectively agree
is in scope of .16e.
Given that we have an extremely aggressive
timeline of only about 5 weeks (including this week !) to come up with these
harmonized contributions (before the June 25th deadline), we need to adopt some
process going forward. To this end, I propose the following
outline.
* Email discussions - we will
use the 802-16-MOBILE
reflector. Please prefix all handoff related emails with
[Handoff].
* Regular telecons - telecons are proposed
on the following dates (90 min each):
Wednesday, June
2nd
Wednesday, June 9th
Wednesday, June
23rd
Proposed
time:
8 PM - 9:30 PM US Pacific time (this seems
to work OK for Europe/Israel and Asia)
Alternate time suggestions are
welcome.
If I do not hear any push back to these
dates/times, I will go ahead and setup telecon logistics and publish the
information by this Friday.
* Face-to-face - We might want to consider
a F2F for a couple of days during the week of June 14th - 18th. We can discuss
this possibility next week.
* Milestones - I propose the following
milestones to help moderate our discussions going
forward:
Between now and June 4th - Discussions to
bottom out on scope and terminology. We started some discussions in Shenzhen and
as a first step I request Yigal / Yong Chang to distribute the document that
outlines some scenarios to consider. We can build on this outline. Please come
forth with any suggestions you might have on terminology, informative text
on network reference models, scope etc.
June 2nd - June 11th - Submit text for
eventual incorporation in the .16e draft in contribution format. We will
continue to discuss these over email.
As soon as the updated USR file becomes
available, I will send out a summary of contributions that were rejected or
deferred in Shenzhen.
Week of June 14th - June 18th -
Consolidate contributions. Some F2F time might be needed to resolve technical
points of disagreement.
Week of June 21st - June 25th - Updates to
contributions before June 25th deadline
Week of June 28th - July 2nd - Respond to
reply comments as needed
Feedback on these proposed milestones are
welcome.
Hope to see a flurry of email activity on
this reflector.
-Prakash
Iyer
Handoff Adhoc
Chair