In recent years, the development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has led to many applications in the military domain. Compared to the vast amount of research on RFID security, there is little research on RFID survivability. In this paper, we present a theoretical survivability impact model for military RFID. Due to a lack of military data, our research is entirely based on available pu...

In this paper we address the survivability issue of amobile cyber physical system (MCPS) comprising sensor-carried human actors, vehicles, or robots assembled together for executing a specific mission in battlefield or emergency response situations. We develop a mathematical model to assess the survivability property of aMCPS subject to energy exhaustion and security failure. Our model-based an...

The paper addresses various design aspects of survivability for surface naval and merchant ships through a common rational probabilistic methodology. It is based on earlier work of Kurt Wendel on a probabilistic approach to the damage stability of surface ships. This method was adopted by SOLAS 1974 through Res. A.265 (VIII) as an alternative to the deterministic SOLAS criteria for passenger sh...

Rising traffic density, along with autonomy and diversity of vehicles in the air, will fundamentally change the safety environment of the future air transportation system. The change in risk is two-fold: increasing chances of mid-air collisions with non-cooperative objects and increasing chances of crashes over highly populated areas. The changing nature of the vehicles populating the airspace ...

A metapopulation structure in landscape ecology comprises a group of interacting spatially separated subpopulations or patches of the same species that may experience several local extinctions. This makes the investigation of survivability (in the form of global oscillation) of a metapopulation on top of diverse dispersal topologies extremely crucial. However, among various dispersal topologies...

In this article we investigate the problem of restoration scheme for IP over WDM networks. Network reliability gains importance with the huge volume of traffic carried by such networks. Providing survivability at the optical layer is inherently attractive, but raises many questions and challenges, given the characteristic of optical aggregated lightpath and relatively coarse traffic granularity...