Devices, systems, and methods for managing multimedia traffic across a common wireless communication network

• US 8,069,465 B1
• Filed: 01/05/2011
• Issued: 11/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DomaniCom Corp.
• Original Assignee: DomaniCom Corp.
• Inventors: Bartholomay, William G., Chang, Sin-Min, Das, Santanu, Sengupta, Arun
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Hai V
• Application Number:
  US12/984,738
• Time in Patent Office: 328 Days
• Field of Search: 725/74, 725/81, 725/93, 725/95, 725/97, 725/116, 725118-120, 725/143, 725/146, 370/322, 370/328, 370/329, 370/338, 370341-343, 370/348, 370/353, 370/395.4, 370/395.21, 370/395.42, 709204-207, 709/226, 709/229, 709/232
• US Class Current: 725/116
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/20 Traffic policing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/2416 Real-time traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/80 Responding to QoS
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43632 involving a wired protocol, e.g. IEEE 1394 high-speed IEEE 1394 serial bus H04L12/40052
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/02 Traffic management, e.g. flow control or congestion control
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/24 Negotiating SLA [Service Level Agreement]; Negotiating QoS [Quality of Service]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for managing multimedia traffic across a common wireless communication network. Embodiments may include content devices, end point devices, a network node, and a wireless dongle. The network node and the wireless dongle may have application functions transmitting and receiving application data streams including a video application. The video application may include a conversion engine to compress, expand, or convert video data. Further, both the network node and the wireless dongle may transmit downstream video streams and receive upstream video streams. In addition, the network node may have a master controller function and a node management function, and a dongle management function each managing video traffic streams and application data streams. In addition, the dongle management function controls admission of a video traffic stream originating from the wireless dongle to the wireless communication network.

Claims

1. A system for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the system comprising:

(a) one or more content devices;

(b) a first wireless terminal and a second wireless terminal each coupled to the wireless communication network;

(c) a first end point device of one or more end point devices having an end point communication interface;

(d) a network node having;

(i) one or more node communication interfaces wherein the network node is coupled to the one or more content devices, and the first wireless terminal through the one or more node communication interfaces;

(ii) one or more node application functions transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a node video application;

(iii) wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;

(iv) a master controller function and a node management function each managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams and the one or more application data streams across the wireless communication network;

(v) a common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more node communication interfaces, one or more application functions, the node video application, the master controller function and the node management function;

(e) a wireless dongle having;

(i) one or more dongle communication interfaces wherein the wireless dongle is coupled to the second wireless terminal and the first end point device through the one or more dongle communication interfaces;

(ii) one or more dongle application functions transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a dongle video application;

(iii) wherein the dongle video application including a conversion engine the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video streams to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from the wireless communication network;

(iv) a dongle management function managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission of a dongle video traffic stream originating from the wireless dongle to the wireless communication network wherein the dongle management function manages a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams, and the dongle management function configures one or more upstream video traffic streams as a first priority based on one or more management commands received from the node management function in the network node;

(v) a dongle common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more dongle communication interfaces, the dongle video application and the dongle management function.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the node management function and dongle management function are selected from the group consisting of priority, policing, traffic shaping, scheduling, admission control, authentication functions and dynamic administration of one or more service level agreements.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the dongle management function is dynamically configured to implement quality-of-service requirements received from the master controller function.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the master controller and node management function provision a dongle management function application in the wireless dongle through the wireless communication network.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the node management function registers the first end point device of the one or more end point devices into the wireless communication network and allocates a first peak data rate and a first mean data rate to the first end point device for transmission of data from the first end point device based on one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and one or more wireless communication network requirements.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the node management function reallocates a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate to the first end point device for transmission of data from the first end point device based on a change in characteristics of the one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and a change in one or more wireless communication network requirements.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the dongle management function implements a strict priority scheme to manage the one or more application data streams.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein:

(a) the network node controls allocation of application data streams to the available wireless communication network bandwidth based on traffic type and characteristics of the application data streams using the master controller function and the node management function,

(b) the node management function allocates a video traffic bandwidth that is a subset of the wireless communication network bandwidth for one or more video traffic streams,

(c) the node management function and the dongle management function implements a time division multiplexing scheme on the video traffic bandwidth such that each of the one or more video traffic streams are assigned a time slot in the time division multiplexing scheme for transmission across the wireless communication network.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein a time slot allocated to an inactive video traffic stream is reallocated to one or more active application data streams.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a first terminal device traffic manager coupled to the network node and a second terminal device traffic manager coupled to the wireless dongle, each terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having:

(a) a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and transmits instructions to the wireless dongle to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;

(b) a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;

(c) a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth;

(d) a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for a management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the node management function and the dongle management function perform a security function using a pseudo-random code to encrypt an secured traffic stream between the network node and the wireless dongle over the wireless communication network wherein a key associated with the pseudo-random code is dynamically configured.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more end point devices are selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, smartphone, electronic reader, television, video camera, and a wireless enabled appliance.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more application data streams is selected from the group consisting of voice traffic, video traffic, best effort data traffic, and background data traffic.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more content devices may include a cable modem, a DSL modem, a WiMax access device, a Passive Optical Networking access device, an Optical Networking Terminal, an Optical Networking Unit, a Long Term Evolution wireless access device, a satellite access device, a broadband access device, a set-top box, a DVR, a DVD player, a BluRay player, and an antenna tuner.

16. A method for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

(a) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a node video application wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application in a network node transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;

(b) managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams using a master controller function and a node management function in the network node, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video across the wireless communication network;

(c) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams using a dongle management function including a dongle video application wherein the dongle video application includes a conversion engine, the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video stream to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from the wireless communication network;

(d) managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission of a dongle video traffic stream originating from a wireless dongle to the wireless communication network using the dongle management function;

(e) managing a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams using the dongle management function; and

(f) configuring one or more video traffic streams as first priority based on one or more management commands received from the node management function in the network node.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the node management function and dongle management function are selected from the group consisting of priority, policing, traffic shaping, scheduling, admission control, authentication functions and dynamic administration of one or more service level agreements.

18. The method of claim 17, the method further comprising dynamically configuring the dongle management function to implement quality-of-service requirements received from the master controller function.

19. The method of claim 16, the method further comprising provisioning a dongle management function application in a wireless dongle through the wireless communication network using the master controller and node management function.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.

21. The method of claim 20, the method further comprising:

(a) registering a first end point device of one or more end point devices into the wireless communication network; and

(b) allocating a first peak data rate and a first mean data rate to the first end point device for transmission of data based on one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and one or more wireless communication network requirements.

22. The method of claim 21, the method further comprising reallocating a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate to the first end point device for transmission of data based on a change in characteristics of the one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and a change in one or more wireless communication network requirements.

23. The method of claim 20, the method further comprising implementing strict priority scheme to manage one or more application data streams by the dongle management function.

24. The method of claim 20, the method further comprising:

(a) controlling allocation of application data streams to the available wireless communication network bandwidth based on traffic type and characteristics of the application data streams using the master controller function and the node management function;

(b) allocating a video traffic bandwidth that is a subset of the wireless communication network bandwidth for one or more video traffic streams using the node management function;

(c) implementing a time division multiplexing scheme on the video traffic bandwidth using the node management function and the dongle management function such that each of the one or more video traffic streams are assigned a time slot in the time division multiplexing scheme.

25. The method of claim 24, the method further comprising allocating a time slot for an inactive video traffic stream to one or more active application data streams.

26. The method of claim 16, wherein a first terminal device traffic manager coupled to the network node and a second terminal device traffic manager coupled to the wireless dongle, each terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having:

(a) a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and transmits instructions to the wireless dongle to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;

(b) a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;

(c) a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth;

(d) a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

27. The method of claim 16, the method comprising performing a security function using a pseudo-random code to encrypt a secured traffic stream between the network node and the wireless dongle over the wireless communication network using the node management function and the dongle management function wherein a key associated with the pseudo-random code is dynamically configured.

28. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more end point devices are selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, smartphone, electronic reader, television, video camera and a wireless enabled appliance.

29. The method of claim 16, wherein the one or more application data streams is selected from the group consisting of voice traffic, video traffic, best effort data traffic, and background data traffic.

30. A device for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the device comprising:

(a) one or more node communication interfaces;

(b) one or more application functions transmitting one or more application data streams including a node video application;

(c) wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;

(d) a master controller function and a node management function each managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams and the one or more application data streams across the one or more node communication interfaces;

(e) a common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more node communication interfaces, one or more application functions, the node video application, the master controller function and the node management function; and

(f) a terminal device traffic manager coupled to the network node, the terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having;

a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and transmits instructions to a wireless dongle to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;

a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;

a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth; and

a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for a management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

31. The device of claim 30, wherein the node management function is selected from the group consisting of priority, policing, traffic shaping, scheduling, admission control, authentication functions and dynamic administration of one or more service level agreements.

32. The device of claim 30, wherein the master controller and the node management function transmit provisioning commands for a dongle management function application to the one or more node communication interfaces.

33. The device of claim 30, wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.

34. The device of claim 33, wherein the node management function transmits registration information for a first end point device of the one or more end point devices to the one or more node communication interfaces and transmits allocation information to the node communication interface, the allocation information including a first peak data rate and a first mean data rate for the first end point device for transmission of data based on one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and one or more wireless communication network requirements.

35. The device of claim 34, the node management function transmits reallocation information including a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate to the one or more node communication interfaces for the first end point device for transmission of data from the first end point device based on a change in characteristics of the one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and a change in one or more wireless communication network requirements.

36. The device of claim 33, wherein:

(a) the network node controls allocation of application data streams to available wireless communication network bandwidth on traffic type and characteristics of the application data streams using the master controller function and the node management function,

(b) the node management function allocates a video traffic bandwidth that is a subset of the wireless communication network bandwidth for one or more video traffic streams,

(c) the node management function implements a time division multiplexing scheme on the video traffic bandwidth such that each of the one or more video traffic streams are assigned a time slot in the time division multiplexing scheme for transmission across the wireless communication network.

37. The device of claim 36, wherein a time slot allocated to an inactive video traffic stream is reallocated to one or more active application data streams.

38. The device of claim 30, wherein the node management function performs a security function using a pseudo-random code to encrypt an secured traffic stream wherein a key associated with the pseudo-random code is dynamically configured.

39. The device of claim 30, wherein the one or more end point devices are selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, smartphone, electronic reader, television, video camera, and a wireless enabled appliance.

40. The device of claim 30, wherein the one or more application data streams is selected from the group consisting of voice traffic, video traffic, best effort data traffic, and background data traffic.

41. The device for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the device comprising:

(a) one or more dongle communication interfaces;

(b) one or more dongle application functions transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a dongle video application;

(c) wherein the dongle video application including a conversion engine the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video streams to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from the one or more dongle communication interfaces;

(d) a dongle management function managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission of a dongle video traffic stream originating from the device to one or more dongle communication interfaces wherein the dongle management function manages a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams, and the dongle management function configures one or more upstream video traffic streams as first priority based on one or more management commands received from the node management function in a network node;

(e) a dongle common operating system performing resource management and coupled to the one or more dongle communication interfaces, the dongle video application and the dongle management function.

42. The device of claim 41, wherein the dongle management function are selected from the group consisting of priority, policing, traffic shaping, scheduling, admission control, authentication functions and dynamic administration one or more service level agreements.

43. The system of claim 41, wherein the dongle management function is dynamically configured to implement quality-of-service requirements.

44. The device of claim 41, wherein the device receives a dongle management function application from one of the one or more dongle communication interfaces and activates the dongle management function.

45. The device of claim 41, wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.

46. The device of claim 45, wherein the device receives registration data and first configuration data including a first peak data rate and a first mean data rate for a first end point device of one or more end point devices from the one or more dongle communication interfaces and allocates the first peak data rate and the first mean data rate to one or more dongle communication interfaces based on one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and one or more wireless communication network requirements.

47. The device of claim 46, wherein the device receives second configuration data from one or more communication interfaces including a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate and reallocating a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate to the one or more dongle communication interfaces based on a change in characteristics of the one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and a change in one or more wireless communication network requirements.

48. The device of claim 45, wherein the dongle management function implements strict priority scheme to manage one or more dongle application traffic streams.

49. The device of claim 45, wherein the device implements a time division multiplexing scheme on video traffic bandwidth such that one or more video traffic streams are assigned a time slot in the time division multiplexing scheme for transmission through the one or more dongle communication interfaces.

50. The device of claim 49, wherein a time slot allocated to an inactive video traffic stream is reallocated to one or more active application data streams.

51. The device of claim 41, further comprising a terminal device traffic manager coupled to the device, the terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having:

(a) a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets from one or more dongle communication interfaces, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and executes instructions received to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;

(b) a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;

(c) a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth;

(d) a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

52. The device of claim 41, wherein the dongle management function performs a security function using a pseudo-random code to encrypt an secured traffic stream wherein a key associated with the pseudo-random code is dynamically configured.

53. The device of claim 41, wherein the one or more application data streams is selected from the group consisting of voice traffic, video traffic, best effort data traffic, and background data traffic.

54. A method for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

(a) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams including a node video application wherein the node video application includes a conversion engine, the node video application in a network node transmitting one or more downstream video streams and receiving one or more upstream video streams;

(b) managing one or more node video traffic streams and the one or more application data streams using a master controller function and a node management function in the network node, transmitting the one or more downstream video streams and the one or more application data streams and receiving one or more upstream video across the wireless communication network;

(c) receiving an authentication request from a node communication interface and transmitting an admission control response to the node communication interface using the master controller function and the node management function in the network node;

(d) a first terminal device traffic manager performing traffic scheduling and having;

a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and transmits instructions to a wireless dongle to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;

a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;

a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth; and

a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

55. The method of claim 54, wherein the node management function is selected from the group consisting of priority, policing, traffic shaping, scheduling, admission control, authentication functions and dynamic administration of one or more service level agreements.

56. The method of claim 54, the method further comprising transmitting configuration information to the node communication interface by the node management function, the configuration information including quality-of-service requirements.

57. The method of claim 54, the method further comprising transmitting provisioning information for a dongle management function application to node communication interface using the master controller and node management function.

58. The method of claim 54, wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.

59. The method of claim 58, the method further comprising:

(a) transmitting registration information for a first end point device of the one or more end point devices to the node communication interface; and

(b) transmitting allocation information to the node communication interface, the allocation information including a first peak data rate and a first mean data rate for the first end point device for transmission of data based on one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and one or more wireless communication network requirements.

60. The method of claim 59, the method further comprising transmitting reallocation information, including a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate to the one or more node communication interface for the first end point device for transmission of data based on a change in characteristics of the one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and a change in one or more wireless communication network requirements.

61. The method of claim 58, the method further comprising:

(a) controlling allocation of application data streams to available wireless communication network bandwidth based on traffic type and characteristics of the application data streams using the master controller function and the node management function;

(b) allocating a video traffic bandwidth that is a subset of the wireless communication network bandwidth for one or more video traffic streams using the node management function;

(c) implementing a time division multiplexing scheme on the video traffic bandwidth using the node management function such that each of the one or more video traffic streams are assigned a time slot in the time division multiplexing scheme.

62. The method of claim 61, the method further comprising allocating a time slot for an inactive video traffic stream to one or more active application data streams.

63. The method of claim 54, the method comprising performing a security function using a pseudo-random code to encrypt an secured traffic stream using the node management function wherein a key associated with the pseudo-random code is dynamically configured.

64. The method of claim 54, wherein the one or more end point devices are selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, smartphone, electronic reader, television, video camera, and a wireless enabled appliance.

65. The method of claim 54, wherein the one or more application data streams is selected from the group consisting of voice traffic, video traffic, best effort data traffic, and background data traffic.

66. A method for managing one or more types of traffic over a wireless communication network, the method comprising:

(a) transmitting and receiving one or more application data streams using a dongle management function in a wireless dongle including a dongle video application wherein the dongle video application includes a conversion engine, the dongle video application transmitting one or more upstream video stream to and receiving one or more downstream video streams from one or more dongle communication interfaces; and

(b) managing one or more application data streams and controlling admission to a dongle video traffic stream originating from the wireless dongle to one or more dongle communication interfaces using a dongle management function;

(d) managing a set of video traffic streams that includes one or more upstream video traffic streams and one or more downstream video traffic streams using the dongle management function;

(e) configuring one or more video traffic streams as first priority based on one or more management commands received and sent from a network node;

wherein the one or more types of traffic includes voice traffic corresponding to a first priority, video traffic corresponding to a second priority, best effort data traffic corresponding to a third priority, and background data traffic corresponding to a fourth priority, wherein a priority of the one or more types of traffic is dynamically configured to conform to quality-of-service requirements.

67. The method of claim 66, wherein the dongle management function is selected from the group consisting of priority, policing, traffic shaping, scheduling, admission control, authentication functions and dynamic administration of one or more service level agreements.

68. The method of claim 66, the method further comprising dynamically configuring the dongle management function to implement quality-of-service requirements received from the one or more dongle communication interfaces.

69. The method of claim 66, the method further comprising receiving a dongle management function application from the one or more dongle communication interfaces and activating the dongle management function.

70. The method of claim 66, the method further comprising:

(a) transmitting an authentication request to one or more dongle communication interfaces;

(b) receiving registration data and first configuration data for a first end point device of one or more end point devices from one or more dongle communication interfaces wherein the first configuration data includes the a first peak data rate and a first mean data rate; and

(c) allocating the first peak data rate and the first mean data rate for the first end point device for transmission of data based on one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and one or more wireless communication network requirements.

71. The method of claim 70, the method further comprising receiving second configuration data including a second peak data rate and a second mean data rate from the one or more dongle communication interfaces and reallocating the second peak data rate and the second mean data rate for the first end point device for transmission of data based on a change in characteristics of the one or more types of traffic flowing across the wireless communication network and a change in one or more wireless communication network requirements.

72. The method of claim 66, the method further comprising implementing strict priority scheme to manage one or more dongle application traffic streams.

73. The method of claim 66, the method further comprising implementing a time division multiplexing scheme on video traffic bandwidth such that each of one or more video traffic streams are assigned a time slot in the time division multiplexing scheme for transmission through one or more dongle communication interfaces.

74. The method of claim 66, further comprising performing traffic scheduling with a terminal device traffic manager coupled to the wireless dongle, the terminal device traffic manager having:

(a) a management protocol processor that receives one or more data packets from one or more dongle communication interfaces, traps one or more management protocol packets, processes the one or more management protocol packets, and executes instructions received to reallocate wireless communication network bandwidth based on processing the one or more management protocol packets, and verifies a quality-of-service for one or more transmission packets;

(b) a traffic policer verifying one or more traffic streams conforming to a respective service level agreement and performing traffic shaping on the one or more traffic streams using a queue;

(c) a scheduler engine that provides weighted round robin scheduling on scheduled traffic stream wherein weighted random early discard is performed based on excessive queue depth;

(d) a management protocol responder generating one or more control packets for management function and responding to one or more trapped management protocol packets.

75. The method of claim 66, the method comprising performing a security function using a pseudo-random code to encrypt a secured traffic stream using the dongle management function wherein a key associated with the pseudo-random code is dynamically configured.

76. The method of claim 66, wherein the one or more end point devices are selected from the group consisting of a personal computer, smartphone, electronic reader, television, video camera and a wireless enabled appliance.

77. The method of claim 66, wherein the one or more application data streams is selected from the group consisting of voice traffic, video traffic, best effort data traffic, and background data traffic.