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:
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√ denotes reasonably completed items
·
Items in
red are Call For Focus for the next meeting
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*
denotes an ad hoc committee is working on this
Updated: 25 July 2013