Packet scheduling in a wireless local area network

A Ali - US Patent App. 10/991,266, 2005 - Google Patents
A method for scheduling packets in a wireless local area network begins by mapping a
packet to an access category (AC) based on a user priority of the packet. The packet is …

Quality of service management for a wireless local area network

M Zaki, TJ Hunkeler - US Patent 7,525,915, 2009 - Google Patents
A method for managing quality of service (QoS) in a wireless local area network begins by
receiving a traffic flow. The traffic flow is mapped to a traffic class (TC), based on QoS …

Quality of service management for a wireless local area network

M Zaki, TJ Hunkeler - US Patent App. 12/397,752, 2009 - Google Patents
A method for managing quality of service (QoS) in a wireless local area network begins by
receiving a traffic flow. The traffic flow is mapped to a traffic class (TC), based on QoS …

Dynamic resource control for high-speed downlink packet access wireless channels

HR Shao, C Shen, J Zhang, D Gu, P Orlik - US Patent 7,330,433, 2008 - Google Patents
A method allocates resources of a wireless communications network to traffic transmitted to
user equipment over a channel of the network. A packet of the traffic to be stored in a …

Fair channel use in a wireless area network

L Chu, GA Vlantis - US Patent 8,045,993, 2011 - Google Patents
Fair usage of working channels in a wireless network is disclosed. A base station associated
with a cell within a wireless community monitors the congestion of the working channel of …

Admission control for contention-based access to a wireless communication medium

M Elaoud, B Hamdaoui - US Patent 8,238,235, 2012 - Google Patents
An access point station responds to a request from a user station for contention-based
access of a new traffic flow to a wireless transmission medium by applying a model of the …

Method for balancing the load of a wireless local area network

YC Lin, CC Kuo - US Patent 7,558,208, 2009 - Google Patents
The method of the present invention selects an access point with the lowest load, which will
reply to the probe-request packet sent by a station, and then constructs an association …

Quality of service (QOS) signaling for a wireless network

H Zheng - US Patent App. 11/290,305, 2006 - Google Patents
An approach is provided for supporting Quality of Service (QoS) signaling between radio
networks. A request message is generated for configuring an air link of a first radio network …

Packet aging in a wireless network

R Kumar, DS Stephenson - US Patent 7,768,923, 2010 - Google Patents
A method and software to cause a processor to implement a method to set a packet age limit
in an access point of a wireless network for communicating time-sensitive data with an …

Strict priority distributed coordination function in wireless networks

T Janczak - US Patent 7,180,861, 2007 - Google Patents
A system and method for prioritizing the transmission of packets in a wireless local area
network. A station selects a packet from local priority queuing and identifies the priority bits …