ADAPTIVE SCHEDULING WINDOW MANAGEMENT FOR A QUALITY OF SERVICE ENABLED LOCAL AREA NETWORK

摘要

A method ( 600 ) performed by a packet scheduler of an access point ( 215 ) of adaptively resizing a scheduling window in a Quality of Service enabled Local Area Network ( 200 ) is disclosed. The packet scheduler schedules data packets for a given duration, termed a scheduling window. The packet scheduler according to an embodiment of the invention adaptively changes the duration of the scheduling window based on the QoS requirements of data packets to be transmitted to and from the access point ( 215 ). In particular, the duration of the scheduling window is changed based on the delay requirement of the data packet having the most constraint QoS requirement.