Quality of Service Traffic Recognition and Packet Classification for Home Mesh Network

An article of manufacture comprising:

• a machine-accessible storage medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
• extracting a port identifier in a transport layer header of a packet having a packet type associated with a priority level, the packet being transmitted from or to an application according to a network protocol in a multi-hop mesh network having a local node and a remote node, the port identifier including a port number;
• and
• classifying the packet into the packet type using the port identifier and one of a pre-defined port list, a dynamic port table, and an application header of the application.