Cascading failures in internet of things: review and perspectives on reliability and resilience

L Xing - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the Internet of Things (IoT), various devices operate collaboratively in collecting data,
relaying information to one another, and processing information intelligently. Due to …

Reliability theory and practice for unmanned aerial vehicles

L Xing, BW Johnson - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to rapid advancements on the Internet of Things (IoT), unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs), also known as drones, are transforming numerous military and civil application …

Optimal condition-based mission abort decisions

Q Qiu, LM Maillart, OA Prokopyev… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Failures of safety-critical mission-based systems, such as aircraft and submarines, could
result in significant losses and damage. To enhance the survivability of such systems, their …

Joint optimization of mission abort and protective device selection policies for multistate systems

X Zhao, X Chai, J Sun, Q Qiu - Risk Analysis, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
For safety‐critical systems such as aircrafts and submarines, mission abort is commonly
deployed to enhance system survivability at the cost of reducing mission success probability …

Joint optimization of mission abort and system structure considering dynamic tasks

X Zhao, H Liu, Y Wu, Q Qiu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Mission abort has recently attracted considerable attention to enhance the safety of critical
systems during the primary mission (PM). Most of the existing research focuses on mission …

Optimal mission abort policy for systems subject to random shocks based on virtual age process

Q Qiu, L Cui - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Safety critical systems such as aircrafts, submarines and space stations are required to
perform various missions. To enhance the survivability of such systems, a mission can be …

Gamma process based optimal mission abort policy

Q Qiu, L Cui - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2019 - Elsevier
Various safety-critical systems such as aircrafts, submarines and space stations are required
to perform missions continually in harsh environment. To enhance the survivability of such …

Joint optimization of mission aborts and allocation of standby components considering mission loss

X Zhao, Y Dai, Q Qiu, Y Wu - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2022 - Elsevier
Mission abort is an effective way to enhance system safety during mission execution.
Existing multi-attempt mission abort models can be divided into two main categories …

Optimal mission abort policy for k-out-of-n: F balanced systems

C Wu, X Zhao, Q Qiu, J Sun - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper studies the optimal mission abort policy for the k-out-of-n: F balanced system
performing a specific mission continually for a period of time. The system consists of m …

Optimal task aborting policy and component activation delay in consecutive multi-attempt missions

G Levitin, L Xing, Y Dai - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent reliability literature has extended the investigation of mission abort policies for single-
attempt missions to multi-attempt missions, where the mission task may be attempted …