Internet of Things (IoTs), as the foundation of cyber-physical systems (CPSs), connect real-world industrial systems or products through Internet-based cyber networks, potentially achieving coordinated monitoring, communication, computing, control and decision-making among large-scale interconnected physical entities.

In this context, the 5G+ wireless communication network represents a critical part of the modern/future CPSs, providing solid infrastructure functions, such as the ultra-reliable low latency communication (uRLLC) for critical information transmission, and, the massive machine-type communication (mMTC) for the internet of massive industrial devices.

The reliability analysis of IoTs and 5G+ networks is a key issue for their success, and a challenging one. The capability of the cyber services to satisfy the demands from the physical counterparts can be a bottleneck by its own, for Quality of Service (QoS) performance, including the end-to-end latency, data rate and package loss in communication systems. Then, the quantification of the relation between the cyber QoS performance and the reliability of the corresponding physical production/service quality is essential for the reliability-and-maintenance based design of future 5G+ networks/IoTs/CPSs.

In this session, we aim to discuss the following topics (and others) related to reliability and maintenance analysis of IoTs and 5G+ networks:

1. Definition and assessment of the end-to-end service reliability of IoTs and 5G+ networks.
2. Reliability allocation and maintenance scheduling for 5G+ networks in service of industrial/consumer objectives.
3. Maintenance scheduling policy design for industrial systems under IoTs.
4. Risk analysis for future industrial systems, IoTs, 5G+ communication networks, and CPSs.

Keywords: reliability, maintenance, 5G, IoT, QoS, end-to-end production/service performances