Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is utilized in industrial environments to support reliable low-latency communications. Bringing TSN features to wireless networks is getting traction recently by achieving time synchronization and traffic scheduling over wireless links. Besides these basic features, impact-less and network transparent association of prospective clients is paramount for wireless TSN. This demo presents an impactless TSN association procedure, where beacons are used to provide time synchronization and scheduling to prospective clients, where association procedure is done in reserved time slots. The presented demo is designed, implemented, and tested on top of a wireless Software Defined Radio platform using the IEEE802.11 standard. By utilizing a dashboard, this demo will demonstrate real-time control over association as well as high accuracy synchronization on client frame transmissions even with challenging scheduling configuration of 128 µS timeslots.

Time-sensitive networking (TSN) is widely used in industrial environments to support low-latency deterministic communications. Innovation to bring time-sensitive networking to wireless networks is getting traction. Besides enabling realtime and deterministic communications, Wireless Time-Sensitive Networks (W-TSN) should provide flexibility and easy deployment, key characteristic requirements for industrial networks. Nevertheless, current research in this field focuses on adapting wired TSN features to the wireless world, namely accurate time synchronization and traffic scheduling, essential processes for wireless end devices such as automated and impact-less association procedure are not considered until now. This work proposes a W-TSN impactless association procedure that provides time synchronization and traffic scheduling for prospect W-TSN clients during the association phase by utilization of beacons. As such, prospect clients can perform association procedure in a controlled fashion avoiding collisions with other, alreadyassociated, W-TSN clients. The presented procedure is designed, implemented, and tested in a real-world scenario on top of a wireless Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform with the IEEE802.11 standard. The results show high accuracy synchronization on client frame transmissions even with challenging scheduling timeslots of 128 µs.

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Due to the fast growth of diverse wireless network deployments, the radio spectrum is becoming scarce. Hence, it is beneficial that different radio access technologies share the spectrum in a harmonious way. In this paper, we propose a coexistence scheme between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Wi-Fi networks that utilizes a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) feature of an LTE network. MBSFN is an LTE feature that provides support for multicast/broadcast traffic. We propose an adaptive scheme that configures muted subframes, initially intended for MBSFN operation, to allow Wi-Fi transmissions. For the adaptive configuration of muted MBSFN subframes, the LTE eNB uses its traffic queue and the Wi-Fi spectrum occupancy information, which is determined by a convolutional neural network-based technology recognition and traffic characterization system. The standard LTE System Information Blocks are used to convey the updated configuration to the LTE UE. Hence, the proposed coexistence scheme doesn't require any modifications to a standard MBSFN-compliant LTE UE. Performance analysis is done for various traffic situations, and the results show that muted MBSFN subframe-based coexistence gives a 15% improvement in average aggregated throughput as compared to using Almost Blank Subframe-based coexistence.