Accommodation of delays for networked control systems using classification of service

Networked controlled systems (NCSs) are used in different fields for process control. They are hardly connected to real-time constraints since important delays induced by the network can cause system instability and even collapse. Usually, the network used in NCSs is shared with many others applications requiring different quality of service. The objective of this paper is to optimize the tuning of the network scheduling mechanisms in taking into account the level of quality of control. The goal is to maximize the bandwidth allocation for unconstrained frames in guarantying that the control constraints are respected. In this paper, we focus on switched Ethernet network implementing the classification of service (IEEE 802.1p) based on a weighted round robin policy.