802.11e

The IEEE standard (2005) for wireless LAN (WLAN) quality of service (QoS) based on access priority classes. 802.11e introduces a coordination function that provides a station with high priority traffic such as voice with more frequent network access than a station with low priority traffic such as e-mail. The station with the high priority traffic also is granted a longer transmit opportunity, or window, in which to transmit as many frames as possible. In all, 802.11e defines four access priority classes, which the Wi-Fi Alliance terms Wi-Fi MultiMedia Extensions (WMMs, or WMEs).Those classes are as follows: