The Quality-Aware and Vertical-Tailored Management of Wireless Time-Sensitive Networks

This article presents a concept of a TSN Controller NetApp to support diverse vertical applications and provide Quality of Service guarantees during their life-cycle. The NetApp is composed of a Controller entity that receives and processes requests from vertical applications with specific network performance demands, and an Agent entity which applies configurations and monitors the state of network elements. This control architecture has been extended to support wireless TSN communication on top of openwifi, supporting the flexibility required by vertical applications with mobile devices such as drones and automated guided vehicles. We describe the building blocks of the TSNC NetApp supporting wired-wireless TSN deployments and show its experimental results demonstrating the feasibility of our solution.