Intelligent scheduling of Wi-Fi services for applications

A wireless access point comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a wireless transmitter and receiver, wherein the wireless access point supports a plurality of transmission modes including MU-MIMO (Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) and OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access);
• and
• a memory including information regarding characteristics of a plurality of applications;
• wherein the wireless access point is to:
• receive a plurality of data packets from a plurality of connected devices and identifying an application traffic flow for each data packet of the plurality of data packets,
• assign each data packet of the plurality of data packets to a respective queue of a first plurality of queues based at least in part on an identified application traffic flow for each data packet,
• select data packets from the first plurality of queues based at least in part on priorities for each of a plurality of applications,
• generate prioritized candidate lists for selected data packets in a second plurality of queues, each queue of the second plurality of queues being dedicated for an access category (AC) for one or more application, and
• schedule data packets from the prioritized candidate lists, including selecting one of a plurality of transmission modes for each access category based at least in part on characteristics of the one or more applications.

A method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of data packets from a plurality of connected devices at a wireless access point and identifying an application traffic flow for each data packet of the plurality of data packets;
• assigning each data packet of the plurality of data packets to a respective queue of a first plurality of queues based at least in part on an identified application traffic flow for each data packet;
• selecting data packets from the first plurality of queues based at least in part on priorities for each of a plurality of applications;
• generating prioritized candidate lists for selected data packets in a second plurality of queues, each queue of the second plurality of queues being dedicated for an access category (AC) for one or more application;
• and
• scheduling data packets from the prioritized candidate lists, including selecting one of a plurality of transmission modes for each access category based at least in part on characteristics of the one or more applications, wherein the plurality of transmission modes includes MU-MIMO (Multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output) and OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access).