Patent ID: 7142563
Filing Date: 2006-11-28
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An in-band signaling model media control (MC) terminal for a Home Phoneline Network Association (HPNA) network, the MC terminal comprising: a frame classification entity (FCE) located at a logical link control (LLC) sublayer of the MC terminal, the FCE receiving a data frame from a higher layer of the MC terminal than the LLC sublayer, the received data frame being part of a down-stream Quality of Service (QoS) stream, the FCE classifying the data frame received from the higher layer of the MC terminal for a media access control (MAC) sublayer based on QoS information contained in the data frame received from the higher layer of the MC terminal, and associating the classified data frame with a QoS stream queue corresponding to a classification of the data frame and being physically located at the MC terminal; and a frame scheduling entity (FSE) located at the MAC sublayer of the MC terminal, the FSE scheduling transmission of the data frame to a destination for the data frame based on a QoS requirement associated with the down-stream QoS stream.