QUALITY OF SERVICE DIFFERENTIATION FOR MULTIMEDIA DATA TRANSFER IN A MULTI-WLAN ENVIRONMENT

摘要

A wireless local area network (108) configured in accordance with the invention includes at least one wireless access point (106) that can support a plurality of different virtual extended service sets ("ESSs") to provide a plurality of different service levels for mobile clients (104) in the network. A wireless access point (106) can deliver QoS parameters to the mobile client devices (102,104), where the QoS parameters dictate a transmission prioritization scheme for data transfer between the mobile client devices (102,104) and the wireless access ports. For example, one ESS (1, 2, 3, ---N) may have preferred QoS parameters to generate consistent voice or video experience while another ESS (1,2, 3, ---N) may have non-preferred parameters that do not guarantee that same level of experience.