Patent ID: 8009649
Filing Date: 2011-08-30
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A point coordinator for a basic service set in a wireless network, the point coordinator comprising: a quality of service management entity for receiving a reservation request characterizing a quality of service session, the reservation request containing a quality of service parameter set and requesting a resource of a communication channel in the basic service set for the quality of service session; an admission control entity for performing macro bandwidth management for quality of service traffic transport of the quality of service session over a medium access control sublayer for the communication channel, the admission control entity determining whether to grant the reservation request based on the quality of service parameter set; and a frame schedule entity for providing the quality of service management entity with a channel status information on a superframe basis, the channel status information being related to a contention-free period and a channel bandwidth; wherein the admission control entity admits a session of a continuous and periodic flow type to the communication channel of the basic service set when a bandwidth requested for the session of the continuous and periodic flow type does not exceed a useable total channel bandwidth minus a bandwidth used for the session of the continuous and periodic flow type.