The scheduling and control of a class of wireless networked control system is investigated, whose control loop is closed via a shared IEEE 802.15.4 wireless network. By using a gain scheduler within the packet-based control framework and fitting the delay-dependent gains into a time-delay system model, a less conservative self-triggered approach is proposed to determine the sampling update, which consequently enables the design of two network scheduling algorithms to reduce the communication usage. Numerical and TrueTime based examples illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in the sense that it reduces greatly the communication usage while maintaining satisfactory control performance.