Systems of Systems approach for monitoring and response across net-centric enterprise systems

As the communications systems of the Department of Defense (DoD), academia, and the commercial world transform from autonomous entities into network centric enterprise systems, service providers and operators struggle to monitor and mange these systems in order to meet customer service commitments. These once independent networks now comprise interdependent systems that integrate into a higher order system resulting in growing complexity. Management of this emerging System of Systems (SoS) requires the capability to monitor and respond to all relevant data, called information, with respect to the service of interest within the required time frame to satisfy customer needs. This paper presents a SoS approach for monitoring and response across net-centric enterprise systems and proposes an implementation for this approach.