Patent ID: 6850981

Claim:
A frame scheduling entity (FSE) for a station having a point coordinator (PC) in a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network, the FSE being located at a medium access control (MAC) sublayer of the station, comprising: a scheduling table logically located at said MAC sublayer of the station, the scheduling table containing at least one entry corresponding to a session admitted to transmit traffic over the wireless network, the entry containing a virtual stream (VS) identifier (VSID), an in-band quality of service (QoS) parameter set, and a data size that are each associated with the session; and a scheduling element for scheduling transmission of a data frame for a session between logical link control (LLC) sublayer entities of said station and LLC sublayer entities of peer stations of the BSS based on the information contained in the entry for the session, the data frame being labeled by the VSID contained in the entry.