Qos; Wireless Multimedia Extensions (Wme)/Quality Of Service (Qos); Enabling Qos And Adding Qos Policies - Proxim AP-4000 User Manual

Performing Advanced Configuration

QoS

QoS

Wireless Multimedia Extensions (WME)/Quality of Service (QoS)

The AP supports Wireless Multimedia Enhancements which defines an intermediate solution for QoS functionality until the IEEE 802.11e
specification is formally approved. WME is based on a subset of the 802.11e standard, and defines enhancements to the MAC for wireless
LAN applications with Quality of Service requirements, which include transport of voice traffic over IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs.
The enhancement are in the form of changes in protocol frame formats (addition of new fields and information elements), addition of new
messages, definition of new protocol actions, channel access mechanisms (differentiated control of access to medium) and network elements
(QoS/WME aware APs, STAs), and configuration management.
WME supports Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) for prioritized QoS services. The WME/QoS feature can be enabled or
disabled per wireless interface. For more information on QoS, see "Technical Bulletin 69504 Revision 2" at
<http://keygen.proxim.com/support/orinoco/tb/tb69504_3wmm.pdf>.

Enabling QoS and Adding QoS policies

Perform the following procedure to enable QoS and add QoS policies:
1. Click Configure > QoS > Policy.
Figure 4-26 QoS Policies
2. To enable QoS, check the Enable Quality of Service checkbox.
3. Configure the QoS Maximum Medium Threshold for all Admission Controls. Admission will be granted if the new requested traffic
stream and already admitted time is less than the medium maximum threshold.
4. To add a QoS Policy, click the Add button in the "QoS Policies Table" box. The Add Entries box appears.
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