WIRELESS SERVICE ACCESS METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20130176958A1
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Published: 07/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: XIE, Yan
• Granted Patent: US 9,001,763 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/329
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/121 for groups of terminals or users
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/56 based on priority criteria
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/566 of the information or information source or recipient

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a wireless service access method and apparatus. In the method, a group policy of a wireless access point AP and a group priority of a virtual access point VAP are configured, an access priority of a service access request of a user is determined according to the group policy of the AP and the group priority of the VAP, and a service access operation is executed according to the access priority. In the embodiments of the present invention, a differential QoS guarantee based on a user priority is provided, and QOS of a high priority user and a high priority service in a situation that wireless resources are constrained or environment is severe can be ensured.

Claims

1. A wireless service access method, comprising:

receiving a service access request of a user; and

determining an access priority of the service access request according to a group policy of an access point (AP) for receiving the service access request and a group priority of a virtual access point (VAP) that the user belongs to, and executing a service access operation according to the access priority.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the group policy of the VAP is one of the group consisting of:

a group only scheduling policy group-only, a group balance scheduling policy group-wrr, a service-first scheduling policy Service-first, and a group-first scheduling policy group-first.

3. An access method of a wireless access point (AP) comprising:

receiving a packet sent by a user;

obtaining a priority corresponding to the packet;

sending the packet into a corresponding priority queue; and

sending packets in different priority queues according to a group policy of the AP.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the group policy is one of the group consisting of:

a group only scheduling policy group-only, a group balance scheduling policy group-wrr, a service-first scheduling policy Service-first, and a group-first scheduling policy group-first.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the obtaining the priority corresponding to the packet further comprises:

obtaining a service type corresponding to the packet, to satisfy a requirement of the group policy of the AP that service scheduling according to the service type is involved.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein one of the priority queues further comprises a priority sub-queue.

7. The method according to claim 3, wherein the obtaining the priority corresponding to the packet further comprises:

obtaining a service type corresponding to the packet, to satisfy a requirement of the group policy of the AP that service scheduling according to the service type is involved.

8. The method according to claim 7, one of the priority queues further comprises a priority sub-queue.

9. A wireless service access apparatus, comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a service access request of a user; and

a service access module, configured to determine an access priority of the service access request according to a group policy of an access point (AP) for receiving the service access request and a group priority of a virtual access point (VAP) that the user belongs to, and execute a service access operation according to the access priority.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the wireless service access apparatus further comprises:

a first group policy configuration module, configured to configure a group policy of a wireless AP to any one of the following group policies;

a group only scheduling policy group-only, a group balance scheduling policy group-wrr, a service-first scheduling policy Service-first, and a group-first scheduling policy group-first; and

a second group priority configuration module, configured to configure the group priority of the VAP.

11. A wireless access point (AP), comprising:

a receiving unit, configured to receive a packet sent by a user;

a priority obtaining unit, configured to obtain a priority corresponding to the packet;

a packet allocation unit, configured to send the packet into a corresponding priority queue; and

a packet sending unit, configured to send packets in different priority queues according to a group policy of the AP.

12. The AP according to claim 11, wherein the packet sending unit comprises:

a group policy obtaining subunit, configured to obtain the group policy of the AP; and

a scheduling subunit, configured to perform a scheduling operation on the packets in the different priority queues according to the group policy of the AP obtained by the group policy obtaining subunit, so as to control the packets in the different priority queues to be sent according to the group policy of the AP.