Dear Colleagues,

Time-sensitive networks (TSNs) are a kind of deterministic service network based on Ethernet technology, which strictly requires time synchronization, high stability and high-quality resource reservation, and convenient and effective network traffic control technology. Time-sensitive networks can be used widely in smart vehicles, aircraft electronics, and aerospace and are also the key basis for the future industrial Internet. Vehicle, airborne, aerospace, and industrial Internet realize the interconnection of people, machines, and things; the amount of data transmitted is huge, and the intelligence requirements are critical, requiring a good combination of the data plane, communication plane, and control plane. TSNs are also the key technology of the industrial Internet, which can provide a deterministic guarantee of limited data transmission time for industry controls.

The TSN core protocol has been standardized, but due to technical limitations, it is still not widely applied. In the past few years, TSN-based products and experimental platforms have begun to emerge, but there is still a lack of more specific and successful typical application cases. The main unsolved immature techniques that limit the application are wireless TSN network technology, wired and wireless hybrid TSN network technology, TSN dynamic management configuration, unified service scheduling, resource reservation, etc.

This Special Issue presents and highlights advances in the protocols, algorithm simulation, and typical applications for TSN. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Wireless TSN technology;
• Wired TSN and wireless TSN hybrid technology;
• Deterministic and reliability analysis of TSN;
• TSN time synchronization technology;
• TSN architecture technology;
• Dynamic analysis of TSN services and traffic;
• TSN traffic scheduling technology;
• TSN configuration management technology;
• Unified technology for TSN products from different manufacturers;
• Typical applications of TSN;
• TSN simulation technology and test bed.

Dr. Tigang Jiang
Dr. Qing Yang
Dr. Kun Hua
Guest Editors

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• time-sensitive networks
• deterministic service network
• time synchronization technology
• traffic scheduling