Quality of service packet processing without explicit control negotiations

A computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code configured to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving header data and payload data from a networking application, wherein the payload data is to be transmitted in a packet to a station via a wireless transmitter, wherein the header data specifies that the packet is associated with a first quality of service (QoS) category;
• analyzing the header data or the payload data to associate the packet with a second QoS category, wherein the priority of the second QoS category is higher than the priority of the first QoS category;
• setting at least one bit of the header data based on the analyzing, wherein the setting is to mark the packet and associate the packet with the second QoS category;
• and
• enabling a system of the computer program product to change power states based on at least one of an arrival rate of packets received by the system and an egress rate of packets transmitted from the system.

An apparatus, comprising:

• a receiver module to receive, by an element of a first station, header data and payload data from a networking application, wherein the payload data is to be wirelessly transmitted in a packet to a second station, and wherein the header data specifies that the packet is associated with a first quality of service (QoS) category;
• an analysis module to analyze by the first station at least one of the header data or the payload data and at least one of an arrival rate of packets of the networking application received by the first station and an egress rate of packets of the networking application transmitted from the first station to the second station;
• and
• a QoS module to mark the packet, based on the analysis, by setting at least one bit of the header data, wherein the marking of the packet changes the association of the packet from the first QoS category to a second QoS category, wherein further the second QoS category is a higher priority category than the first QoS category.

A system, comprising:

• a wireless communication device coupled to an antenna, the antenna configured to transmit a packet to a station of a wireless communication network, wherein the packet comprises header data and payload data;
• wherein further a networking application associates the packet to a first quality of service (QoS) category;
• dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to store coded instructions of a prioritization engine of a driver of the wireless communication device;
• and
• a processor coupled to the DRAM, the processor to execute the coded instructions to analyze at least one of the header data or the payload data and to mark the packet, wherein the marking is to change an association of the packet from the first QoS category to a second QoS category based on the analysis, wherein the second QoS category comprises a voice (VO) access category.