Systems Architecting for Sustainable Delivery of Value

Requirements need be established for architecting a large scale, complex system for sustainable delivery of value to users. In this paper, we describe a general methodology to establish requirements on design of a complex system to provide sustainable delivery of value. The methodology involves a system architecture paradigm, a sustainability analysis, and the derivation of design requirements. The methodology is described in concrete terms as it is applied to an ad hoc sensor network, which is required to provide sustainable delivery of information for use within the context of a missile defense system. Bounds are then established on the network connectivity and interoperability measures. This work demonstrates a methodology to enable designing requirements for architecting a system for sustainable delivery of value.