Quality of service (QoS) enhancement to multilink point-to-point protocol (PPP)

摘要

Multilink PPP is enhanced to provide for a more flexible quality of service (QoS) support in a wireless environment. In particular, multilink PPP is enhanced to enable a packet interface, or packet endpoint (105,120), to transmit a message to an opposite PPP peer (120,105), where the message identifies the number, and type, of classes on a particular PPP link. Two new messages are defined for use in the IP control protocol (IPCP) phase of a multilink PPP connection: a "non-Sharing QoS Negotiation" option message, and a "QoS-Enhanced Multilink Header Format" option message.