Configure WMM QoS Settings

Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) classifies traffic into Voice, Video, Best-effort, and Background access categories, and provides mechanisms to prioritize each category at differing levels. Contention Window Minimum, Contention Window Maximum, and AIFS work together to determine the back-off time for each category. The first two define the minimum and maximum contention window parameters. When there is contention for access to the wireless medium, the AP calculates a random value between these two parameters. The higher the values, the longer the AP will back off during periods of access contention, resulting in longer delays for that traffic category. The lower the values, the shorter the back-off period, with shorter delays for traffic delivery. The AP adds the fixed arbitration interframe space (AIFS) back-off value to the first two values. The higher the setting, the longer the AP backs off, and the longer traffic is delayed during times of contention. The smaller the setting, the less time the AP backs off, resulting in shorter delays.

Use this task to configure Wi-Fi Multimedia.

  1. Go to Configure > Common Objects > Policy > Radio Profiles.
  2. Select an existing radio profile, and then select Edit, or select Add.
  3. If necessary, modify the default settings in the Contention Window Minimum, Contention Window Maximum, and AIFS columns.
  4. If necessary, modify the default setting in the TXOP Limit column to determine how long bursts of traffic last before relinquishing the medium.
  5. Set the No ACK flag to inform the recipient not to send ACKs of the frames it receives, which is useful for the video category where lost packets in streaming video go unnoticed, and retransmissions are unnecessary.
  6. Select SAVE RADIO PROFILE.