Devices, systems, and methods for managing multimedia traffic across a common wireless communication network

A method for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

• (a) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a node video application wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application in a network node transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;
• (b) managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams using a master controller function and a node management function in the network node, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video across the wireless communication network;
• (c) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams using a dongle management function including a dongle video application wherein the dongle video application includes a conversion engine, the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video stream to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from the wireless communication network;
• (d) managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission of a dongle video traffic stream originating from a wireless dongle to the wireless communication network using the dongle management function;
• (e) managing a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams using the dongle management function;
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• (f) configuring one or more video traffic streams as first priority based on one or more management commands received from the node management function in the network node.

A device for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the device comprising:

• (a) one or more node communication interfaces;
• (b) one or more application functions transmitting one or more application data streams including a node video application;
• (c) wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;
• (d) a master controller function and a node management function each managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams and the one or more application data streams across the one or more node communication interfaces;
• (e) a common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more node communication interfaces, one or more application functions, the node video application, the master controller function and the node management function;
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• (f) a terminal device traffic manager coupled to the network node, the terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having:
• a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and transmits instructions to a wireless dongle to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;
• a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;
• a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth;
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• a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for a management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

The device for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the device comprising:

• (a) one or more dongle communication interfaces;
• (b) one or more dongle application functions transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a dongle video application;
• (c) wherein the dongle video application including a conversion engine the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video streams to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from the one or more dongle communication interfaces;
• (d) a dongle management function managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission of a dongle video traffic stream originating from the device to one or more dongle communication interfaces wherein the dongle management function manages a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams, and the dongle management function configures one or more upstream video traffic streams as first priority based on one or more management commands received from the node management function in a network node;
• (e) a dongle common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more dongle communication interfaces, the dongle video application and the dongle management function.

A method for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

• (a) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a node video application wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application in a network node transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;
• (b) managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams using a master controller function and a node management function in the network node, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video across the wireless communication network;
• (c) receiving an authentication request from a node communication interface and transmitting an admission control response to the node communication interface using the master controller function and the node management function in the network node;
• (d) a first terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having:
• a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and transmits instructions to a wireless dongle to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;
• a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;
• a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth;
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• a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

A method for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

• (a) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams using a dongle management function in a wireless dongle including a dongle video application wherein the dongle video application includes a conversion engine, the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video stream to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from one or more dongle communication interfaces;
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• (b) managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission to a dongle video traffic stream originating from the wireless dongle to one or more dongle communication interfaces using a dongle management function;
• (d) managing a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams using the dongle management function;
• (e) configuring one or more video traffic streams as first priority based on one or more management commands received and sent from a network node;
• wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.