A method and a system for a quality of service (QoS) point coordinator
(PC) for a basic service set (BSS) in a wireless local area network
(WLAN) is disclosed. The PC includes a QoS management entity (QME) and an
admission control entity (ACE). The QME receives at least one reservation
request message that characterizes one of a QoS session and a QoS
application (session/application) that can be of a continuous/periodic
flow type that is time sensitive, or can be of a discontinuous/bursty
flow type that is time tolerant. The reservation request message contains
at least one QoS parameter set and requests a resource of a communication
channel in the BSS for the QoS session/application. The communication
channel is organized into superframes, such that each superframe includes
a contention-free period (CFP) and a contention-period (CP). The
reservation request message requests a predetermined bandwidth of each
CFP of the communication channel in the BSS. The ACE performs macro
bandwidth management for QoS traffic transport of the session/application
over a medium access control (MAC) sublayer for the communication channel
by determining whether to grant the reservation request based on at least
one QoS parameter set associated with the session/application.