The field of time-triggered communication and network optimization is moving towards more flexible and efficient scheduling schemes, allowing for increased throughput and improved performance in safety-critical systems. Researchers are exploring new approaches to resource reservation, dynamic bandwidth allocation, and controller synthesis to address the challenges associated with emerging networks and services. Notably, innovative solutions such as hypercycle-level flexible scheduling and hybrid-switch dynamic bandwidth allocation are being proposed to enhance the efficiency of bandwidth allocation and address misalignments in dynamic bandwidth allocation mechanisms. Some papers are particularly noteworthy for their innovative contributions, including: A novel dynamic bandwidth allocation design for 100G coherent passive optical networks, which introduces a hybrid-switch DBA algorithm for optimizing network performance and accommodating latency-sensitive applications. Controller synthesis for parametric timed games, which presents a semi-algorithm to compute winning strategies for parametric timed games and demonstrates its feasibility through an implementation and experiments.