Media access control apparatus and method for guaranteeing...

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2004-08-12

2009-02-10

Pham, Chi H (Department: 2616)

Multiplex communications

Communication over free space

Having a plurality of contiguous regions served by...

C370S332000, C370S465000

Reexamination Certificate

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07489666

ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a media access control (MAC) apparatus and method for guaranteeing quality-of-service in a wireless local area network (LAN). The MAC method comprises: extracting a user priority from a frame received from an upper layer and separately storing a voice frame and a general frame according to an access category (AC); independently performing backoff operations for the voice frame and the general frame; determining whether the backoff operations for the voice frame and the general frame have simultaneously ended; if the backoff operations have simultaneously ended, transmitting the voice frame having a higher priority first and performing the backoff operation for the general frame; and if the backoff operations have not simultaneously ended, transmitting a frame whose backoff operation ends.

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Sunghyun Choi: Seoul National University, “Emerging IEEE 802.11e WLAN for Quality-of-Service (QoS) Provisioning,” SK Telecom Telecommunications Review, vol. 12, No. 6, 2002, pp. 894-906.

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