Toward a Reliable and Resilient Mobile Wireless Architecture

Abstract

Hybrid mobile wireless architectures that combine the advantages of ad hoc (mobile nodes) and cellular models provide “communications-on-the-move” services with enhanced flexibility and stability. In this article, we investigate the resiliency of such architectures by considering strategies for optimal deployment (number and location) of backup routers that would ensure reliable performance in such interdependent mobile systems.

Keywords:

• Bivariate distributions
• Cellular models
• Dependent failures
• Hybrid mobile systems
• Markov processes
• Optimization
• Simultaneous failure rates

Mathematics Subject Classification:

• 60J05
• 90B18

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This work was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, under Grant DAAG19-02-1-0195.