Virtual time-sensitive networking bridge over a 5g wireless system

A wireless system for forming a virtual bridge between a first time-sensitive networking, TSN, system and a second TSN system, the wireless system comprising:

• an ingress port configured to receive data for transmission from the first TSN system;
• a wireless network configured to:
• classify different portions of the data for transmission into different quality of service, QoS, data flows based on relative priority of the portions of the data;
• divide the QoS data flows into a plurality of subsets of one or more QoS data flows, and allocating each subset of one or more QoS data flows to a corresponding virtual queue, each virtual queue including the data for the corresponding subset of one or more QoS data flows;
• obtain a schedule including a set windows wherein each window provides permission to a corresponding virtual queue to access and allocate transmission resources for transmitting data in the queue;
• apply the schedule in order to allocate, for each window, transmission resources for the corresponding virtual queue from a set of transmission resources;
• and
• transmit the data across the wireless network using the allocated resources;
• and
• an egress port configured to output the data transmitted over the wireless network to the second TSN system.

A device for scheduling transmissions over a wireless system forming a virtual bridge between a first time-sensitive networking, TSN, system and a second TSN system, the device comprising a processor configured to:

• receive data for transmission from the first TSN system;
• classify different portions of the data for transmission into different quality of service, QoS, data flows based on relative priority of the portions of the data;
• divide the QoS data flows into a plurality of subsets of one or more QoS data flows, and allocating each subset of one or more QoS data flows to a corresponding virtual queue, each virtual queue including the data for the corresponding subset of one or more QoS data flows;
• obtaining a schedule including a set windows wherein each window provides permission to a corresponding virtual queue to access and allocate transmission resources for transmitting data in the queue;
• and
• apply the schedule in order to allocate, for each window, transmission resources for the corresponding virtual queue from a set of transmission resources.