IEEE Group Hopes for Consensus on License Assisted Access
The IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee (LMSC) plans to weigh in at the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as the standards group develops specifications for devices that use licensed assisted access (LAA), a variation of LTE-unlicensed, the committee said in…
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a filing at the FCC. The IEEE committee deals with standards for local area networks and metropolitan area networks. The committee recommends that 3GPP “adopt a number of specific 802.11-like coexistence features, and that those features be a mandatory part of the LAA standard, given how successful these features have been in promoting the growth of wireless broadband over unlicensed spectrum,” said the letter, from LMSC Chairman Paul Nikolich. The committee understands 3GPP will make its draft LAA specification available in Q4, Nikolich wrote. “At that point, IEEE 802 expects to review 3GPP’s draft LAA specification and provide any appropriate feedback, and we hope that input will be incorporated into the LAA specification” due for release in March, he said. The filing was posted in docket 15-105.