CONFIGURABLE QUALITY-OF-SERVICE SUPPORT PER VIRTUAL ACCESS POINT (VAP) IN A WIRELESS LAN (WLAN) ACCESS DEVICE

摘要

A wireless network access device includes a radio and support for virtualaccesspoints. According to the invention, each virtual access point has anindependentlyconfigurable quality-of-service profile. The per-VAP QoS support enablesmultipleservices to be delivered from a single physical access point. A plurality oftransmit/receive queues are associated with each virtual access point (VAP)configured onthe access device. Each queue in the plurality of queues is associated with agivenquality-of-service level, such as (in decreasing order of priority): voice,video, best effortdata, and background data. The access device further includes a data transfermechanismin the form of a data packet forwarding engine that, for each VAP, transfersdata from theplurality of queues to enforce the per-VAP QoS policy.