Join Us for Our WiCI Webinar @ Wednesday, Feb 25, 2026, 11:00 AM CT

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WiCI Webinar

Towards Deterministic Networking for Real-Time Mission-Critical Systems

Professor Tianyu Zhang Assistant Professor University of Iowa

Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM CT

 

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Abstract

Real-time mission-critical systems (RT-MCSs) are subject to stringent Quality of Service requirements in terms of both timing and reliability, and their correct behavior depends not only on the functional accuracy but also on the temporal precision. RT-MCSs increasingly rely on networks as part of their control loop, which makes timing predictability and bounded interference as important as raw throughput. This talk explores how to move from “best-effort on average” toward deterministic networking through flow scheduling and resource partitioning across heterogeneous environments. Using 5G radio access as a representative wireless domain and time-sensitive networking (TSN) as a representative deterministic wired domain, I will show how deadline-driven scheduling and resource partitioning can work together to control contention, reduce jitter, and enlarge the feasible design space for meeting timing requirements of RT-MCSs.

 

Biography

Tianyu Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Iowa. Prior to IU, he was a postdoc fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut. He received his joint Ph.D. from Northeastern University, China, and the University of Notre Dame. His research is broadly in the area of real-time cyber-physical systems (CPSs), with recent focuses on the design, analysis, and implementation of resource management and scheduling frameworks for emerging Industrial Internet-of-Things systems, including industrial 5G, time-sensitive networking (TSN), and wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs).

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