Survivability Analysis of Command and Control Communications Networks--Part II

This paper is the second of a two-part study summarizing the results of a research program on the survivability analysis of command and control communication systems. In the first part, we consider the formulation of realistic survivability models and criteria and the fundamental physical problems affecting survivability analysis. In this paper, we first discuss algorithms for deterministic analysis of C³systems to identify bottlenecks and more vulnerable elements in network structure. The problems encountered in probabilistic analysis techniques are then discussed. Finally, an efficient, practical probabilistic survivability analysis procedure is given and an example of its use is presented.