Patent ID: 6862270

Claim:
A quality of service (QoS) station containing a point coordinator (PC) for a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network, the PC comprising: a QoS management entity (QME) receiving at least one end-to-end QoS message characterizing a user application, the at least one end-to-end QoS message including at least one QoS parameter set that is expressed at layer 3 and higher of an ISO/TEC basic reference model of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI)(ISO/IEC 7498-1) and is to be passed down to layer 2 of the PC-station for enabling QoS traffic transport of the application; and an admission control entity (ACE) performing an admission control decision relating to the application based on the at least one end-to-end QoS message characterizing the application, wherein the at least one end-to-end QoS message characterizing the application is a request for admitting the application to the wireless network wherein the ACE, responsive to the at least one end-to-end QoS message, rejects or admits the requesting application to the wireless network based on an outcome of the admission control decision and wherein the OME responsive to an admitted application; establishes at least one virtual stream (VS) in layer 2 of the BSS for transporting the traffic of the application between logical link control (LLC) sublayer entities within the BSS.