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Wi-Fi Alliance Reports Progress on Coexistence With LTE-U

The Wi-Fi Alliance and “dozens of industry players made significant progress” toward a test regimen on fair coexistence between Wi-Fi and LTE-unlicensed devices at a coexistence workshop Tuesday, the alliance said. “Since Wi-Fi Alliance released the Alpha version of its…

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draft test plan earlier this month, an industry-wide effort has been underway to validate the draft procedures for feasibility, correctness, and repeatability, and to further refine testing criteria,” the alliance said Wednesday in a statement. “Firm conclusions about device coexistence cannot be drawn until this validation phase is complete and the test plan is finalized.” Attendees of the workshop agreed to a deadline for submission of data to support a decision on neighbor awareness test criteria before the next workshop in June, the alliance said. “Attendees explored other ways to ensure the timely completion of test plan validation and accelerate work wherever possible. The importance of community contributions was a common theme, and Wi-Fi Alliance identified specific work items where contributions are necessary to maintain expected progress.”