  With the development of 5G, innovative applications requiring bounded
transmission delays and zero packet loss emerge, e.g., AR, industrial
automation, and smart grid. In this circumstance, time-sensitive networking
(TSN) is proposed, which addresses the deterministic transmission in the local
area networks. Nevertheless, TSN is essentially a Layer 2 technique, which
cannot provide deterministic transmission on a large geographic area. To solve
this problem, this paper proposes a hierarchical network for the end-to-end
deterministic transmission. In the proposed network, we leverage CQF (i.e., one
of the most efficient TSN mechanisms) in the access networks which aggregates
the traffic from end-devices. Meanwhile, in the core network, we exploit the
DIP (i.e., a well-known deterministic networking mechanism for backbone
networks) for long-distance deterministic transmission. We design the cycle
alignment mechanism to enable seamless and deterministic transmission among
hierarchical networks. A joint schedule is also formulated, which introduces
the traffic shaping at the network edge to maximize the network throughput.
Experimental simulations show that the proposed network can achieve end-to-end
deterministic transmission, even in the highly-load scenarios.
