Quality of service using wireless lan
AssigneeSharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Michael Rudnick, John Michael Kowalski, Srinivas Kandala
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Abstract
A method of providing Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless LAN system, wherein plural stations comprise the wireless LAN network, and wherein the wireless LAN network includes a protocol providing for contention periods and contention free periods, includes grouping the stations into a polling list set; selecting a number of the grouped stations for inclusion in a polling list subset, wherein preference is given to high-priority QoS stations in the polling list subset; and polling the high priority stations during a contention free period.
Claims12
A method of providing Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless LAN system, wherein plural stations comprise the wireless LAN network, wherein some of the stations are identified as high-priority stations requiring QoS, and wherein the wireless LAN network includes a protocol providing for contention periods and contention free periods, comprising:
- grouping the stations into a polling list set;
- selecting a number of the grouped stations for inclusion in a polling list subset, wherein preference for selecting stations from the polling list is given to stations which are identified as high-priority QoS stations;
- and
- polling the high priority stations during a contention free period.
A method of providing Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless LAN system, wherein plural stations comprise the wireless LAN network, wherein some of the stations are identified as high-priority stations requiring QoS, and wherein the wireless LAN network includes a protocol providing for contention periods and contention free periods;
- and wherein the wireless LAN is connected with a wired LAN, comprising:
- grouping the stations into a polling list set;
- selecting a number of the grouped stations for inclusion in a polling list subset, wherein preference for selecting stations from the polling list is given to stations which are identified as high-priority QoS stations;
- and
- polling the high priority stations during a contention free period.
A method of providing Quality of Service (QoS) in a wireless LAN system, wherein plural stations comprise the wireless LAN network, wherein some of the stations are identified as high-priority stations requiring QoS, and wherein the wireless LAN network includes a protocol providing for contention periods and contention free periods, comprising:
- grouping the stations into a polling list set;
- selecting a number of the grouped stations for inclusion in a polling list subset, wherein preference for selecting stations from the polling list is given to stations which are identified as high-priority QoS stations;
- setting the time period between successive contention free periods to be greater than the contention free period;
- and
- polling the high priority stations during a contention free period.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.