Patent ID: 8045561

Claim:
A method of scheduling backhaul traffic directed to a plurality of wireless devices, comprising: receiving an incoming traffic flow comprising a first device flow and a second device flow; separating the incoming traffic flow into the first device flow and the second device flow; separating at a first scheduler the first device flow into a first service first device flow comprising at least one first service first device flow packet and a second service first device flow comprising at least one second service first device flow packet; separating at a second scheduler the second device flow into a first service second device flow comprising at least one first service second device flow packet and a second service second device flow comprising at least one second service second device flow packet; sending a first service first device flow packet to a first per-hop behavior queue and a second service first device flow packet to a second per-hop behavior queue in an order based on a first service classification associated with the first service first device flow and a second service classification associated with the second service first device flow; sending a first service second device flow packet to the first per-hop behavior queue and a second service second device flow packet to the second per-hop behavior queue in an order based on the first service classification associated with the first service second device flow and the second service classification associated with the second service second device flow; and, sending the first service first device flow packet and the first service second device flow packet from the first per-hop behavior queue, and the second service first device flow packet and the second service second device flow packet from the second per-hop behavior queue to a backhaul link in an order based on a first per-hop behavior associated with the first per-hop behavior queue and a second per-hop behavior associated with the second per-hop behavior queue.