802.11e

802.11e definition - telecom
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:

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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