Topological Analysis of Wireless Networks (TAWN)

Abstract

The goal of this project was to develop topological methods to detect and localize vulnerabilities of wireless communication networks to jamming and traffic overload. Our analysis used high-dimensional cell complexes to describe broadcast resources. Local protocol, activity, and channel conditions can be associated to such a cell complex using a mathematical object called a sheaf. We leveraged the existing mathematical literature on sheaves that describes how to draw global(network-wide) inferences from them.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 31, 2016
Accession Number
AD1011439

Entities

People

  • Michael Robinson

Organizations

  • American University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Coding
  • Communication Networks
  • Computations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Geometry
  • Information Operations
  • Mathematics
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Network Simulation
  • Network Topology
  • Statistics
  • Topology
  • Vector Spaces
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML