Continuing Development of IEEE802.16j Standard..

• Session #48 held in March 2007, Orlando, USA

The aim of this session is to advance the development of the P802.16j Baseline Document by going through the Comments and Contributions presentation, discussion and resolution, and considering the five Guideline Documents of usage models, definitions and terminology, evaluation methodology, technical requirements and table of contents.

This time 118 comments and 146 contributions were submitted and 85 of them were accepted. Members formed into 8 groups for ad-hoc discussion, which are Frame Structure, Security, Mobility Management Sleep/Idle Mode, HARQ, Routing and Path Management, MAC PDU Construction, Measurement & Reporting and other MAC/Other PHY. Because of so many topics, the meeting schedule was quite tight.

Then members texted Proposals for the Baseline Document and scheduled towards the initial draft and WG letter ballot. And after the meeting, Technical Editors revised the baseline document, which was a further step into standardization of IEEE802.16j.

• Session #49 in May 2007, Portland, USA

The main purpose of this meeting is to advance the development of the P802.16j Baseline Document. Firstly the ad-hoc group chairs reported the results of their group discussion based on the topics mentioned above. Then members discussed about resolution of comments returned to TG from adhoc groups, and Resolution of comments deferred straight to #49. After that they reviewed the comment classification and presented technical comments. Later they dealt with editorial comments.