ENHANCED CHANNEL ACCESS MECHANISMS FOR QOS-DRIVEN WIRELESS LANS

摘要

A method and system are disclosed for providing quality of service (QoS)-driven channel access within a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless network. A contention control (CC) frame is sent from a point coordinator (PC) station of the BSS. The CC frame contains information relating to a number of available centralized contention opportunities (CCOs) for receiving a reservation request (RR) in a centralized contention interval (CCI) following the CC frame. The CC frame also contains information relating to the identification of stations from which an RR was successfully received by the PC station in a preceding CCI. The superframe includes a contention-free period (CFP) and a contention (CP). The CC frame is received at a non-PC station in the BSS.