Communications survival strategies for tactile wireless control

Tactile wireless control systems are mainly designed on the premise of ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC). With the introduction of survival time to the quality-of-service requirements of such systems, the design paradigm has shifted from the typical link reliability, i.e., minimizing packet error rate, to service availability, i.e., minimizing chance of burst errors which can cause loss of communication for longer than survival time. In this article, we address the implications of this shift and present survival time strategies that are designed to guarantee an end-to-end dependable tactile wireless control.