“…In a series of recent papers [Walsh et al, 1999[Walsh et al, , 2002[Walsh et al, , 2002b, [Walsh & Ye, 2001], the try-once-discard (TOD) protocol is proposed and studied intensively, where an upper bound of sensor-to-controller time delays induced by the network is derived, for which exponential stability of the closed-loop system is guaranteed.…”