Designing resilient system-of-systems networks

The networked nature of many system-of-systems (SoS) requires consideration of resilience in their design and analysis. We present an approach for the design space exploration of such resilient SoS networks. We model candidate network designs using complex network methods, and generate and analyze a network design space with Design of Experiments. Results show an interaction between adaptation strategy and threat type, indicating that the best adaptation strongly depends on the threat faced. However, no interaction is seen with initial topology, suggesting that random initial topologies provide more resilience than scale-free ones regardless of the threat or adaptation strategy.