Patent ID: 7031287

Claim:
A method for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network, the method comprising steps of: sending a contention control (CC) frame from a point coordinator (PC) of the BSS, the CC frame containing information relating to at least one of a priority limit for a next centralized contention interval (CCI), a length of the next CCI, a permission probability associated with the next CCI and information relating to a reservation request (RR) frame successfully received by the PC in a previous CCI; and receiving a non-colliding RR frame at the PC in the CCI following the CC frame, a received RR frame being sent from a non-PC station in the BSS when at least one centralized contention opportunity (CCO) is available during the CCI after the CC frame, and an RR frame indicating that the non-PC station sending the RR frame has at least one buffered data frame for transmission.