Method and apparatus for enhancing the quality of service of a wireless communication
US6885638B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 13, 2002 |
| Grant date | Apr 26, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 13, 2022 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W72/569
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A communication system and method assigns, such as by marking headers of wireless communication packets, packet classification data to packets to define at least one of the following classes: a control signaling class, such as in-band signaling and control packets, a voice class, a data retransmission class, OAMP class and a data class and wherein each class represents a different transmission priority over a backhaul link. For wireless communication packets associated with the control signaling class and the voice class, the method and apparatus assigns each of the wireless communication packets with additional drop precedent data wherein the drop precedence data defines a further packet drop priority within the control signaling class and the voice class. The apparatus and method drops a queued classified wireless communication packet based on a priority level of assigned drop precedent data and based on the packet classification data.
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