In the Internet of Things (IoT), various devices operate collaboratively in collecting data,
relaying information to one another, and processing information intelligently. Due to …

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to transform the human society toward becoming intelligent,
convenient, and efficient with potentially enormous economic and environmental benefits …

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 …

In this paper, we develop a new reliability model for dependent competing failure processes
(DCFPs), which accounts for degradation-shock dependence. This is a type of dependence …

Many systems experience dependent competing failure processes resulting from
simultaneous exposure to degradation processes and random shocks. Moreover, the …

In many life-critical applications (eg, spacecraft, aircrafts and chemical reactors),
accomplishing a specified mission or aborting mission objectives in the case of certain …

A phased-mission system (PMS) involves multiple, consecutive, non-overlapping phases of
operation. The system structure function and component failure behavior in a PMS can …

ZigBee and Bluetooth devices (particularly sensors) abound in smart home sensor systems
(SHSSs), and they can only be connected to the network through gateways. Therefore, there …

This paper models an Internet of Things (IoT) system subject to probabilistic functional
dependence (PFD), which takes place when the failure of one component (trigger) causes …

Competing failures are time domain contention situations between the propagated failures
(PFs) that originate from dependent components and the failure isolation caused by the …