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Citation
Adrian Lauf. "Fault-Tolerant Distributed Reconnaissance". Talk or presentation, 10, November, 2010.

Abstract
This paper describes a method to efficiently canvass an area of interest using distributed sensing methods, assisted by fault-tolerant resource management. By implementing multiple aircraft in an assessment configuration, aerial monitoring and diverse sensing can be accomplished through the use of ad-hoc networking principles; aircraft act as nodes, each being a distributed agent in the network. Combined with a method called the Distributed Apt Resource Transference System (DARTS) for reallocating redundant or alternately-allocatable resources, such implementations can enjoy longer operational duration, increased coverage, and a higher probability of executing the desired reconnaissance. DARTS employs a hybridization of gossip and flooding-based resource discovery methods to find suitable replacement resources in the case of a node failure. Failures may arise due to natural (environmental) interference or malicious attacks designed to disrupt the mission. Testing of the fault-tolerant resource management techniques demonstrated resiliency of the system, resulting in minimal bandwidth requirements to reallocate (up to 6-fold reduction in traffic) and a faster speed of resource reallocation (up to 79% improvement), even in the face of an inconsistent state of operation. By implementing intrusion detection system (IDS) technologies to spawn the reallocation process (a procedure called triggering), DARTS provides a flexible, lightweight, and scalable method to efficiently allow reconnaissance and other distributed sensing applications to occur on a mobile, airborne platform.

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  Adrian Lauf. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/757.html"
  ><i>Fault-Tolerant Distributed
  Reconnaissance</i></a>, Talk or presentation, 
  10, November, 2010.

• Plain text

  Adrian Lauf. "Fault-Tolerant Distributed
  Reconnaissance". Talk or presentation,  10, November,
  2010.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Lauf10_FaultTolerantDistributedReconnaissance,
      author = {Adrian Lauf},
      title = {Fault-Tolerant Distributed Reconnaissance},
      day = {10},
      month = {November},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This paper describes a method to efficiently
                canvass an area of interest using distributed
                sensing methods, assisted by fault-tolerant
                resource management. By implementing multiple
                aircraft in an assessment configuration, aerial
                monitoring and diverse sensing can be accomplished
                through the use of ad-hoc networking principles;
                aircraft act as nodes, each being a distributed
                agent in the network. Combined with a method
                called the Distributed Apt Resource Transference
                System (DARTS) for reallocating redundant or
                alternately-allocatable resources, such
                implementations can enjoy longer operational
                duration, increased coverage, and a higher
                probability of executing the desired
                reconnaissance. DARTS employs a hybridization of
                gossip and flooding-based resource discovery
                methods to find suitable replacement resources in
                the case of a node failure. Failures may arise due
                to natural (environmental) interference or
                malicious attacks designed to disrupt the mission.
                Testing of the fault-tolerant resource management
                techniques demonstrated resiliency of the system,
                resulting in minimal bandwidth requirements to
                reallocate (up to 6-fold reduction in traffic) and
                a faster speed of resource reallocation (up to 79%
                improvement), even in the face of an inconsistent
                state of operation. By implementing intrusion
                detection system (IDS) technologies to spawn the
                reallocation process (a procedure called
                triggering), DARTS provides a flexible,
                lightweight, and scalable method to efficiently
                allow reconnaissance and other distributed sensing
                applications to occur on a mobile, airborne
                platform.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/757.html}
  }
  

Posted by Larry Rohrbough on 7 Dec 2010.
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