Call for Topics for York meeting September 2013 – Summary of Consensus Items list

•          RF Bandwidth (RF Spectrum) *

•          FDD Downstream is OFDM/OFDMA

•          Bonding approach for downstream

•          Rate adaptation, which layer and how

•          PHY sub-Task Force

–        Physical Layer processing path

•          Data path

•          PHY Link path

–        FEC / Interleaving (error performance) (requires: channel model)

•          Interleaver specification

•          FEC LDPC Codes for Active Plant

•          FEC LDPC Codes for Passive Plant

–        Fidelity requirements

•          Spurious Emissions

–        Downstream CLT transmitter data detection specification to support TDD bursting

–        Downstream Continuous Pilots

–        Tables for Electrical Input / Output requirements at CLT and CNU

•          MPCP Changes

•          Adaptive Bit Rate Loading

•          PHY Link *

–        PHY Link FEC LDPC Codes

–        PLC Preamble

–        PLC Content / Messaging / “mini-MAC operation”

•          Channel identification

•          Sub-carrier identification, - index?

–        Multiple PLC issues

–        PHY Ranging / timestamp

–        PHY Time to Register

•          Complexity of hardware scaling with “bandwidth”

•          How we are going to do TDD

–        TDD Guard Time / Time Windows

•          Coding Efficiency gains vs cost

•          Synchronization in terms of time / frequency (mobile backhaul

•          OFDM Numerology / FFT Size / Symbol Size / CP size (requires: channel model) / Definitions / Channels

–        OFDM Numerology (first pass)

–        Symbol definition

–        Cyclic suffix (related to window) definition

–        Number of OFDM channels

•          Framing / Burst Marker Structure

•          MAC layer efficiency

•          PHY layer efficiency

•          Energy Efficiency

•          Subcarrier group / Resource Block

•          Exclusions

•          Pilots

•          Sublayer interfaces

•          MIB (see Howard)

Notes:

·         denotes reasonably completed items

·         Items in red are Call For Focus for the next meeting

·         * denotes an ad hoc committee is working on this

 

Updated: 25 July 2013