Prioritize wireless packets over short distances for time-critical applications

摘要

In embodiments, a client station serves to detect and prioritize time-critical wireless packets over short distances, such as time-critical Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE) packets, in a clogged environment. The client station may determine time critical packets, for example, with the aid of the type of device providing the packets, a state of the device providing the packets, and / or the type of data contained in the packets. The client station may prioritize the time critical packets in a variety of ways, including by providing temporal priority scheduling for the time critical packets; by pausing the communication of other types of Bluetooth packets, such as A2DP packets; by reducing the data rate for other types of Bluetooth packets, such as A2DP packets; and / or by extending the data packet size for time-critical BTLE packets. The time critical packets may accordingly be prioritized over packets associated with the same wireless protocol and / or with another wireless protocol.