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Industrial networks interconnect devices to support industrial processes and manufacturing systems. Industrial applications results in time-critical and/or mission-critical data traffic, which require high reliability, guarantees on the delay bounds and robust time synchronization with high precision. Time Sensitive Networking (TSN)is considered as a suitable multi-service network technology for industrial systems and applications. TSN provides greater timing accuracy, enhanced performance in reducing packet delay variation, and adds more networking determinism. However, the configurations of TSN switches presents a challenge (e.g. time-aware traffic shaping schedules). Each output port of a TSN switch has to follow timed schedule to achieve the desired performance. The schedules have to be distributed at the network initialization and have to be maintained upon new devices joining or obsolete device being …