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Adrian Lauf. "DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH FAULT-TOLERANT RESOURCE REALLOCATION FOR DISASTER AREA ASSESSMENT". PhD thesis, Vanderbilt University, March, 2010.

Abstract
This project is aimed at developing a system allowing Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) to perform distributed tasks within a fault-tolerant context, called the Distributed Apt Resource Transference System (DARTS). By creating a method by which individual, wirelesslyconnected nodes can identify and respond to malicious intrusions and operational failures such as radio interference, DARTS provides a way to increase system uptime by allowing redundant resources owned by nodes to be reallocated to a task that would otherwise need to be suspended due to node failure. This work also attempts to understand the relationship between the efficiency of the system itself and differing network densities, defined by the geometric organization of nodes. Lastly, by integrating DARTS into the application of distributed disaster area assessment involving multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the speedup (up to 6-fold increase) and reduction in number of reallocation request messages (79% reduction) has shown that DARTS is a viable way to perform an accurate and timely survey of tornado storm damage using a distributed aerial platform.

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  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/667.html"
  ><i>DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH FAULT-TOLERANT
  RESOURCE REALLOCATION FOR DISASTER AREA
  ASSESSMENT</i></a>, PhD thesis,  Vanderbilt
  University, March, 2010.

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  Adrian Lauf. "DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH FAULT-TOLERANT
  RESOURCE REALLOCATION FOR DISASTER AREA ASSESSMENT".
  PhD thesis,  Vanderbilt University, March, 2010.

• BibTeX

  @phdthesis{Lauf10_DISTRIBUTEDSENSINGWITHFAULTTOLERANTRESOURCEREALLOCATION,
      author = {Adrian Lauf},
      title = {DISTRIBUTED SENSING WITH FAULT-TOLERANT RESOURCE
                REALLOCATION FOR DISASTER AREA ASSESSMENT},
      school = {Vanderbilt University},
      month = {March},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This project is aimed at developing a system
                allowing Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) to
                perform distributed tasks within a fault-tolerant
                context, called the Distributed Apt Resource
                Transference System (DARTS). By creating a method
                by which individual, wirelesslyconnected nodes can
                identify and respond to malicious intrusions and
                operational failures such as radio interference,
                DARTS provides a way to increase system uptime by
                allowing redundant resources owned by nodes to be
                reallocated to a task that would otherwise need to
                be suspended due to node failure. This work also
                attempts to understand the relationship between
                the efficiency of the system itself and differing
                network densities, defined by the geometric
                organization of nodes. Lastly, by integrating
                DARTS into the application of distributed disaster
                area assessment involving multiple unmanned aerial
                vehicles (UAVs), the speedup (up to 6-fold
                increase) and reduction in number of reallocation
                request messages (79% reduction) has shown that
                DARTS is a viable way to perform an accurate and
                timely survey of tornado storm damage using a
                distributed aerial platform.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/667.html}
  }
  

Posted by Adrian Lauf, Ph.D. on 29 Mar 2010.
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