Host-based quality of service for wireless communications

摘要

Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing quality of service (QOS) functionality on a host device or tethered processor to conserve resources on a network device. In particular, the host device/tethered processor can classify QOS data and manage QOS flows, transmitting data by flow to the network device. The data from the QOS flows can be tagged to identify the flow and/or characteristics thereof allowing the wireless device to simply route the data to its respective flow. Thus, the network device is saved from such classification and flow management freeing resources to provide increased performance and decreased power consumption.

主权项

1. A method for providing quality of service (QOS) to one or more applications being executed by a host device without a wireless communication connection, comprising:
classifying, by a host device without a wireless communication connection, data received from an application executed by the host device, in one or more local QOS flows related to the application; tagging, by the host device, the data with an identifier identifying at least one of the one or more local QOS flows; transmitting, by the host device, the tagged data from the one or more local QOS flows to a separate wireless device for transmission over a wireless network; receiving a flow control disabled status from the wireless device related to the one or more local QOS flows; queuing subsequently received data from the application in response to the flow control disabled status; transmitting the queued data over the one or more local QOS flows upon receiving a flow control enabled status; and requesting, by the host device, QOS from the wireless device based at least in part on a request received from the application, so that the wireless device will negotiate QOS with the wireless network.