
Professional Access Point
Administrator Guide
transmission behaviour on the access point only, not to that of the client stations.
Notes
•For the Guest interface, QoS queue settings apply to the access point load as a whole (both BSSes together).
•Internal and Guest network traffic is always queued together.
Configuring Quality of Service includes:
•Configuring AP EDCA Parameters
•Enabling/Disabling
•Updating Settings
Configuring AP EDCA Parameters
AP Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) Parameters affect traffic flowing from the access point to the client station.
Field
Description
Queue | Queues are defined for different types of data transmitted from the access |
| |
| Data 0 (Voice) |
| Highest priority queue, minimum delay. |
| streaming media are automatically sent to this queue. |
| Data 1(Video) |
| Highest priority queue, minimum delay. |
| automatically sent to this queue. |
| Data 2 (best effort) |
| Medium priority queue, medium throughput and delay. Most traditional IP data |
| is sent to this queue. |
| Data 3 (Background) |
| Lowest priority queue, high throughput. Bulk data that requires maximum |
| throughput and is not |
| ple). |
| For more information, see “QoS Queues and Parameters to Coordinate Traffic |
| Flow” on page 144. |
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AIFS | The Arbitration |
| for data frames. |
| Valid values for AIFS are 1 through 255. |
| For more information, see “EDCF Control of Data Frames and Arbitration Inter- |
| frame Spaces” on page 145. |
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