Communications Effects Server (CES) Model for Systems Engineering Research

Abstract

All systems and system of systems (SoS) have an architecture - either explicit or implicit. The architecture of the system impacts many downstream design decisions and the longer lifecycle issues that impact the cost of system maintenance, security and integration with other systems. As systems become more interconnected into system of systems, they must operate in a network centric environment. These networks may be a collection of disparate networks, wireless networks, networks of people, and some unknown future form of connectivity. This is such a daunting concern that industry competitors have created the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) for the purpose of working together to improve the probability that individually architected systems from different companies will interoperate with one another. One of the many challenges in this environment is to predict system performance as the system(s) architecture is being designed, and then to validate that performance when the system is prototyped and later instantiated. The good viable approach to this is through model-based systems architecting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 2012
Accession Number
ADA582066

Entities

People

  • Robert Cloutier

Organizations

  • Systems Engineering Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Protocols
  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Emergency Response
  • Engineering
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Operating Systems
  • Personnel Management
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Security
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Modeling Language
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design