Editing IEEE 802.11e-2005 (section)

{{Short description|Quality of service enhancements for wireless LANs}}
{{Technical|date=September 2010}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

'''IEEE 802.11e-2005''' or '''802.11e''' is an approved amendment to the [[IEEE 802.11]] standard that defines a set of [[quality of service]] (QoS) enhancements for wireless [[Local area network|LAN]] applications through modifications to the [[media access control]] (MAC) layer.<ref name="benven1">M. Benveniste, "WLAN QoS", Chapter 3 in ''Emerging Technologies in Wireless LANs: Theory, Design, and Deployment'', (B. Bing, ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-521-89584-2}}.</ref>  The standard is considered of critical importance for delay-sensitive applications, such as [[VoWLAN|voice over wireless LAN]] and [[streaming multimedia]].  The amendment has been incorporated into the published [[IEEE 802.11-2007#802.11-2007|IEEE 802.11-2007]] standard.