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802.21 EC Motions

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802.21c Single Radio Handover PAR Approval

• Motion the 802 EC for approval to forward the 802.21c PAR <http://mentor.ieee.org/802.21/file/09/ 21-09-0146-05-SingleRadioHandovers-Par-5c.doc > on Single Radio Handovers to NesCom.

• Moved: Vivek Gupta

• Second:

• LMSC Vote:

• WG Vote: 10/0/0

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802.21 Wireless Networks Management Study Group

• Motion: Move that the 802EC create a 802.21 Study Group to study issues related to Management of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

• Moved: Vivek Gupta

• Second:

• LMSC Vote:

• WG Vote: 8/0/0

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Heterogeneous Wireless Network

WLAN

WiMAX

DVB-S2

DVB-T2

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Management of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

• Extend the 802.21 Abstract Link layer primitives for Management of 802 Wireless technologies

• Neighbor discovery• Configuration• Monitoring events• Resource Reservation

• Use these primitives to enable/optimize a variety of upper layer applications

• Load balancing• Fault tolerance, Reliability, Robustness• Efficient Routing

• Key users of this abstract interface• Back end equipment (Network nodes)

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Management of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

802.11

MAC

PHY

Abstract Link layer primitives

802.16

MAC

PHY

DVB

MAC

PHY

3GPP

L2

L1