System and method for prioritization of network traffic across multiple wireless options

A method of prioritizing network traffic over a multi-channel communication network, comprising:

• with a processor, executing an access point survey module to survey a plurality of access points distributed across a multi-channel communication network including a plurality of wireless protocol networks to, based on a type of wireless protocol network the access points are communicatively coupled to, determine and assign a numerical value to the access point characteristics based on:
• a signal-to-noise ratio between the information handling system and each of the plurality of the access points;
• a signal strength between the information handling system and each of the plurality of the access points;
• a reference signals received power (RSRP) measurement;
• a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement;
• a connection speed;
• a retry rate at each access point;
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• network channel contention at the access point;
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• with the processor, aggregating the numerical values associated with each access point and rank each access point based on an aggregated score;
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• with the processor, assigning data communication for a wireless network interface device supporting a plurality of types of wireless protocol networks to a network slice to a selected access point based on the aggregated scores of the selected access point and a category of application used to transmit the data communication.

An information handling system, comprising:

• a processor;
• a memory;
• a wireless network interface device for communication a multi-channel network with a plurality of wireless protocol networks;
• an access point survey module to, upon execution of the processor, survey a plurality of access points distributed across the multi-channel communication network to, based on the type of wireless protocol network the access points are communicatively coupled to, determine and assign a numerical value to the access point characteristics based on:
• a signal-to-noise ratio between the information handling system and each of the plurality of the access points;
• a signal strength between the information handling system and each of the plurality of the access points;
• a reference signals received power (RSRP) measurement;
• a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measurement;
• a connection speed;
• a retry rate at each access point;
• and
• network channel contention at the access point;
• a scoring and ranking module to:
• aggregate the numerical values associated with each access point and rank each access point based on an aggregated score;
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• assign data communication for a network slice from the wireless network interface to a selected access point based on the aggregated scores of the selected access point and a category of application used to transmit the data communication;
• a Wi-Fi virtualization module to create a plurality of virtual adapters to isolate different types of data traffic from the information handling system to a Wi-Fi access point to be associated with a plurality of basic service set identifiers (BSSIDs) at the Wi-Fi access point to create network slices for Wi-Fi data communications;
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• a 5G new radio (NR) virtualization module to create a plurality of virtualized network slices to isolate different types of data traffic on network slices for 5G data communications from the information handling system to a 5G NR access point.