RUCKUS Unilateral Mirroring

Unilateral Mirroring is an exclusive RUCKUS feature that provides QoS mirroring without requiring signaling between the AP and the client, extending the advantages of mirroring to legacy clients that lack support for MSCS.

When QoS Mirroring is enabled for all clients, the AP automatically assigns an equivalent priority to each downlink flow for a legacy client, mirroring each of its flow with the priority of its corresponding uplink flow. Clients with MSCS support explicitly initiate mirroring by sending an MSCS request to the AP.

The Unilateral mirroring feature mirrors the downlink user priority (UP) or traffic identifier (TID) corresponding to its uplink UP/TID, and the AP does not expect any request from the station (STA). The AP mirrors uplink UP/TID to downlink UP/TID when the downlink packets from the server are DSCP 0x00. The client devices do not use a dedicated frame exchange to trigger the Unilateral QoS process. This mode supports both MSCS clients and non-MSCS clients.

Parent topic: Quality of Service (QoS)