| 摘要 |
A quality of service (QoS) based load-balancing scheme in network communication between a local area network (LAN) and a wireless local area network (WLAN) is provided. The load balancing decision is made by a load balancing module according to traffic conditions and bandwidth availability of each traffic priority class based on a corresponding class of service. The load balancing module also maps an identifier in the LAN to one or more identifiers (BSSIDs or SSIDs) in the WLAN for accommodating the communication between LAN and WLAN for maintaining the quality of service (QoS). The identifier in the LAN can be a VLAN tag at the LAN, or identity of the port, physical address of terminals including MAC address, Token Ring or etc. protocols, or Internet address (IP) according to LAN standards.
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