Spatial quality of service prioritization algorithm in wireless networks

An apparatus implementing spatial Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization in a wireless network, comprising:

• an interface communicatively coupled to a wireless access device;
• a processor;
• and
• memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:
• determine a relative or absolute location of target devices receiving or requesting a same media stream from the wireless access device;
• determine a group of the target devices within a given proximity of one another sharing the same wireless resource;
• while shared wireless resource remain for the wireless access device, for each target device in the group:
• determine a target device based on relative spatial distance to other target devices in the group with prioritized reception of the media stream;
• and
• cause the wireless access device to grant the determined target device prioritized reception of the media stream.

A wireless system, comprising:

• a plurality of devices;
• a wireless access device communicatively coupled to the plurality of devices;
• and
• a scheduler implementing Quality of Service (QoS) prioritization for the plurality of devices and the wireless access device;
• wherein, responsive to the plurality of devices having equal priority for a media stream, the scheduler is configured to implement spatial QoS prioritization amongst the plurality of devices having equal priority.