In this paper, an output-feedback model reference adaptive controller for networked control systems is developed.The problems of networked control systems such as; transmission delays and data-packets dropout induced by the insertion of data networks in the feedback adaptive control loops are considered.The novelty of the paper consists in the combination of different aspects in networked control systems; output-feedback model reference control of systems with unknown parameters, unknown network-induced delays, and unknown data-packets dropout.Sufficient conditions for Lyapunov stability criterion are derived in the case of uncertainty due to delays, and data-packets dropout.Simulation results are given to illustrate the effectiveness of our design approach.Recently, much attention has been paid to the study of stability analysis and control design of networked control systems. The primary advantages of an NCS are reduced system wiring, simpler of installation, ease of system diagnosis and maintenance, and lower costs. On the other hand, factors such as bandwidth constraints, network-induced delays, and packet dropout among many other peculiarities of networks often affect the performance of an NCS or even cause instability. From the literature, it is found that the research in NCSs involves two important aspects. From the perspective of control design, the stability and the performance ofNCSs is the main issue to be considered. From the perspective of communication and information theory, the service of the network such as scheduling strategy is also important when dealing with NCSs [1 ]-[ [4]. The design of controllers for NCSs has also been overlooked, as many researchers start with a controller that has been designed, ignoring the challenges introduced by NCSs and then investigating to what extent such controllers can guarantee stability in spite of the network. On the other hand, the results obtained for NCSs are still limited: most of the existing results in the literature assume that the plant is given and model parameters are completely available, while few papers address the analysis and synthesis problems for NCSs whose plant parameters are partially unknown. In fact, while controlling a real plant, the designer rarely knows 978-1-4577-0128-3/11/$26.00 漏2011 IEEE 91 its parameters accurately [25], [30]. In [15]-[23], we developed direct adaptive state feedback control schemes for NCSs. Some key issues in adaptive control of systems connected via a communication networks, such as sampling period, network-induced delays, data-packets dropout, error models, adaptive laws, and stability analysis, have been addressed for state feedback for state tracking. These approaches deal with the stabilization problem in which no external input exists. In [24], the first algorithm for model reference direct state feedback adaptive control algorithm for NCSs was developed in the presence of network-induced delays.However, when, as in many cases, the internal state variables of a system are not accessible, adaptive outpu...