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IEEE P802.11Wireless LANs Summary of 16m Requirements Date: 2007-10-26 Author(s): Name Affiliation Address Phone email Bruce Kraemer Marvell 5488 Marvell Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054 +1-321-751-3988 bkraemer@ 16m Requirements Summary Extracted from 802.116m-07_002r4 (26 pages) Note: Only selected pieces are included but all extracts are verbatim. 5.0 General requirements 5.1 Legacy support IEEE 802.16m shall provide continuing support and interoperability for legacy WirelessMAN-OFDMA equipment, including MSs and BSs. Specifically, the features, functions and protocols enabled in IEEE 802.16m shall support the features, functions and protocols employed by WirelessMAN-OFDMA legacy equipment. 5.2 Complexity IEEE 802.16m shall provide the ability to disable legacy support. complexity of MSs and BSs shall be minimized by adhering to the following: a) The functional and performance requirements shall be met with mandatory features only. b) Optional features shall be considered only if they provide significant functional and performance improvements over mandatory features. c) Support of multiple mandatory features which are functionally similar and/or have similar impact on performance shall be avoided. d) The number of states of protocols and procedures should be minimized. 5.5 Operating bandwidths IEEE 802.16m shall support scalable bandwidths from 5 to 20 MHz. Other bandwidths shall be considered as necessary to meet operator and ITU-R requirements. 5.6 Duplex schemes IEEE 802.16m shall support both Time Division Duplex (TDD) and Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) operational modes. The FDD mode shall support both full-duplex and half-duplex MS operation. Specifically, a half-duplex FDD (H-FDD) MS is defined as an FDD MS that is not required to transmit and receive simultaneously. In TDD mode, the DL/UL ratio should be adjustable. In the extreme, the IEEE 802.16m system should be capable of supporting downlink-only configurations on a given carrier. In FD