A wireless local area network (WLAN) station and protocol configured to support communicating real-time application (RTA) packets that are sensitive to communication delays as well as non-real time packets over a network supporting within traffic stream (TS) operations in which real time application (RTA) traffic and non-RTA traffic coexist. Stations can request establishing a traffic stream from neighboring stations, which can accept or deny the TS for the RTA stream. Additional information can be passed in requesting the stream or by the responder for denying the stream.