Abstract: A quality of service mechanism for a wireless network includes providing an admission control policy for a quality of service access point (QAP) to manage bandwidth by accepting or denying service to admitted traffic streams of quality of service stations (QSTAs) Further included is renegotiating different access category parameters in the QAP for enhancing performance in the wireless network. An additional aspect also includes monitoring in the QSTAs for enhanced networking to determine whether bandwidth allocation to a specific access category meets QoS requirements under time-varying network conditions and renegotiating admitted access category bandwidth if necessary.

Abstract: A quality of service mechanism for a wireless network includes reserving time for contention-based transmissions of station devices under a polling-based channel access function in an access point. Also included is deriving a scheduled polling service under access rules of the polling-based channel access function, wherein admission capability and bandwidth management of the wireless network are enhanced.