The Royal Dutch Defence Academy is working out how a "constellation" of small satellites can operate more safely than a big satellite, distributing operations to protect against the loss of some individual units, says Roy Lindelauf, one of the researchers.With the emphasis on defence rather than attack, it is not an arms race yet.
This framework is applied to two industrial cases harnessing advanced networking technologies in their distributed operations.
Its performance in terms of average location estimation error in combination with its simplicity and distributed operations hold great promise.
The second contribution is to design a distributed rate adjustment protocol based on those local conditions to achieve the global maxmin objective through fully distributed operations.
Current industrial control system architectures are predominantly based on networked digital computers that enable reliable monitoring and control of critical functions via localized and distributed operations.
These networks of resource constrained nodes require time synchronization for various distributed operations, but traditional protocols have significant overhead and rapidly deplete battery power.
The process change is challenging because it involves different actors across the company, especially for international companies that have globally distributed operations.
The framework improves visibility, understanding and control of the processes involved and on a practical level provides a platform on which geographically distributed operations can be conducted effectively.
Tested against complex optimisation problems and in comparison with commonly used Tabu Search, the asynchronous cascade algorithm demonstrates a significant potential in distributed operations with favourable comparisons drawn against synchronous and quasi-asynchronous versions of conventional algorithms.
Especially, as the complexity of interacted distributed operations increases under changeable conditions, it becomes a key issue to design the adaptive collaboration strategy considering the multiple network participants׳ economic goals and interdependent factors that affect/restrict their viability.
In this section, we describe the distributed operations in more detail.
