System and method to support priority in wireless LAN mesh networks

摘要

A device in a wireless LAN mesh network is disclosed. The device consists of a transceiver operable to send and receive a data packet in the mesh network and a component operable upon detection of a collision with a high priority data packet transmitted by the transceiver to add a small number of backoff times to a contention window associated with the high priority data packet and substantially randomly select a backoff time from the enlarged contention window, the component operable to promote retransmission of the high priority data packet during the selected backoff time after an interface spacing.