Later Development of IEEE802.16j Standard..

• #45 Session held in September 2006, Tremblant, Canada

Since the topics of Usage Model and Terminology were done in Session #44, the objectives of #45 meeting was focused on Evaluation Methodology, Technical Requirements and Table of Contents, and also preparing for the technical proposals towards the next meeting.

For the documents of Technical Requirements and Table of Contents, before the meeting, many companies discussed a lot about them. So these documents were submitted by a group of companies. While Samsung had their own documents. During the ad-hoc discussion time, all the companies got agreement and resulted in one document.

Most of the comments were about Evaluation Methodology. Institutions from Taiwan, companies such as Notel and Nokia made a lot of effort on it.

• Session #46 held in November 2006, Dallas, USA

Except the technical contributions, the main purpose was to consider the five Guideline Documents of Usage Models, Definitions and Terminology, Evaluation Methodology, Technical Requirements and Table of Contents in order to prepare for the draft standard towards the next meeting.

This time 156 contributions were submitted before the meeting, which proved the participation was expanded a lot. And the presentations were organized based on technical topic to topic approach. The discussion at the end of topic was also organized. In this way, the technical details were forming step by step.

• Session #47 held in January 2007, London, England

This session went through the Technical Contributions presentation and discussion, considered the five Guideline Documents of Usage Models Definitions and Terminology, Evaluation Methodology, Technical Requirements and Table of Contents, and proceeded to the “call for comments” on the baseline document towards the next meeting for the draft standard.

170 contributions were submitted on topics of Relay concepts, Security, Frame structure, Network entry, BW request, Construction & transmission of MAC PDUs, Measurement & reporting, Mobility management, Routing & path management, RRM, Scheduling & Interference control, PHY, and Evaluation methodology. Among these Frame structure and Network entry got most attention, and each of them obtained 33 contributions.