Link scheduling for distributed control over synchronous TDMA network

This paper analyzes a control bandwidth, a gain margin, and a phase margin of a distributed control system over a STDMA (Synchronous Time Division Multiple Access) network. Although STDMA achieves a hard real-time communication among end-nodes, a packet-sending interval and an one-way delay depend on a STDMA table. This paper therefore analyzes the relation between a control performance and a STDMA table to find an effective design principle of STDMA tables. The validity of designed STDMA tables is verified by experiments.