Prk-based scheduling for predictable link reliability

A distributed sensing and control network comprising:

• a plurality of sensing/control nodes, each of said sensing/control nodes including a sensor, a local controller, a local memory and a wireless transmitter/receiver, and wherein said local memory stores instructions for implementing a physical-ratio-K-scheduling protocol (PRKS) for wireless transmissions;
• and
• a local signal map stored in said local memory, wherein said local signal map, together with the instantiated physical-ratio-K (PRK) interference models, defines an interference relationship between a sensing/control node storing said local signal map and each other sensing/control node of said plurality of sensing/control nodes within an exclusion region of said sensing/control node storing said local signal map.