802.11e priority

To provide QoS services on WLAN, the 802.11e standard was developed. IEEE 802.11e is a MAC-layer enhancement to IEEE 802.11. IEEE 802.11e adds a 2-byte QoS Control field to the 802.11e MAC frame header. The 3 bits of the QoS control field represents the 802.11e priority, which is in the range of 0 to 7.

Figure 40: 802.11e frame structure