System Engineering Approach in Tactical Wireless RF Network Analysis with Vulnerability Assessment using Bayesian Networks

Apply systems engineering approaches to measure and analysis vulnerabilities of military tactical RF wireless networks. Develop smart and innovative performance matrixes through EW modeling and simulation scenarios. Systematic utilize of systems engineering approaches with RF electronic warfare modeling and simulation scenarios to support research in vulnerability analysis. RF electronic warfare models are used to provide a practical yet simple process for assessing and investigate the vulnerability of tactical RF systems. The focus is on military or tactical wireless network within a system of systems (SoS) context research area. Wireless RF communication network vulnerabilities critically studied within Department of Defense (DoD) organizations to provide a comprehensive network vulnerability assessment approach. Researchers have proposed a variety of methods to build network trees with chains of exploits, and then perform normal post-graph vulnerability analysis. This paper presents an approach to use Bayesian network to model, calculate and analyze all potential vulnerability paths in wireless RF networks.