  Cyber-physical control applications impose strict requirements on the
reliability and latency of the underlying communication system. Hence, they
have been mostly implemented using wired channels where the communication
service is highly predictable. Nevertheless, fulfilling such stringent demands
is envisioned with the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G). The
requirements of such applications are often defined on the application layer.
However, cyber-physical control applications can usually tolerate sparse packet
loss, and therefore it is not at all obvious what configurations and settings
these application level requirements impose on the underlying wireless network.
In this paper, we apply the fundamental metrics from reliability literature to
wireless communications and derive a mapping function between application level
requirements and network level parameters for those metrics under deterministic
arrivals. Our mapping function enables network designers to realize the
end-to-end performance (as the target application observes it). It provides
insights to the network controller to either enable more reliability
enhancement features (e.g., repetition), if the metrics are below requirements,
or to enable features increasing network utilization, otherwise. We evaluate
our theoretical results by realistic and detailed simulations of a factory
automation scenario. Our simulation results confirm the viability of the
theoretical framework under various burst error tolerance and load conditions.

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