Resilient and Fractionated Cyber Physical System

Abstract

Reliance on aging monolithic overhead physical systems with assurance of resilience is an ongoing critical discussion. The White House has issued a strategy to evolve this system of systems technology to meet growing information and knowledge needs. Fractionated Space Cyber Physical Systems is part of a novel concept emerging from a field of hyperconnected networks designed to withstand risk and address aforementioned needs. The transition from a monolithic design into alternative resilient designs will better reflect the utility of a system to the commander. Resilience is a characteristic meant to assure performance even within a higher probability of risk. Resilience encourages availability regardless of the perceived threat in the increasingly dynamic environment. Traditional systems incorporate the sub-systems required to deliver the common operational picture. Reduction of those integrated sub-systems is unacceptable; therefore, introducing a decentralized architecture is going to carry with it the requirement of a seamless interaction despite being separated. Decentralization is a design process that allows a constellation capability to seek more nodes than what would be normally available when residing in the same payload. This is a measure of design success that enhances the evaluation of a system's capability and its ability to survive risk, its resilience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA619512

Entities

People

  • Brian Connett

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Astronautics
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Communications
  • Control Systems
  • Data Links
  • Disruption Tolerant Networks
  • Environment
  • Information Systems
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • National Security
  • Reliability
  • Resilience
  • Space Systems
  • System Of Systems
  • United States

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Economics
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space
  • Space - Satellites