NEGOTIATION OF QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) INFORMATION FOR NETWORK MANAGEMENT TRAFFIC IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK (WLAN)

摘要

An access point (10,100) advertises a management frame quality of service 'MFQ' policy (133) that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station (14,200) associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.