A method for providing quality of service (QoS) aware, wireless point to
multi-point telecommunications in a telecommunications system. The
telecommunications system includes: a wireless base station coupled to a
first data network; one or more host workstations coupled to the first
data network; one or more subscriber customer premise equipment (CPE)
stations in wireless communications with the wireless base station over a
shared bandwidth using a packet-centric protocol; one or more subscriber
workstations coupled to each of the subscriber CPE stations over a second
network. The method includes allocating shared bandwidth among the
subscriber CPE stations in a manner to optimize end-user QoS. The method
includes analyzing and scheduling IP flows over the shared wireless
bandwidth. This includes identifying the IP flows; characterizing the IP
flows; classifying the IP flows; and prioritizing the IP flows.