A Games-in-Games Approach to Mosaic Command and Control Design of Dynamic Network-of-Networks for Secure and Resilient Multi-Domain Operations

摘要

This paper presents a games-in-games approach to provide design guidelines for mosaic command and controlthat enables the secure and resilient multi-domain operations. Under the mosaic design, pieces or agents inthe network are equipped with exible interoperability and the capability of self-adaptability, self-healing, andresiliency so that they can recon gure their responses to achieve the global mission in spite of failures of nodesand links in the adversarial environment. The proposed games-in-games approach provides a system-of-systemsscience for mosaic distributed design of large-scale systems. Speci cally, the framework integrates three layersof design for each agent including strategic layer, tactical layer, and mission layer. Each layer in the establishedmodel corresponds to a game of a di erent scale that enables the integration of threat models and achieveself-mitigation and resilience capabilities. The solution concept of the developed multi-layer multi-scale mosaicdesign is characterized by Gestalt Nash equilibrium (GNE) which considers the interactions between agentsacross di erent layers. The developed approach is applicable to modern battle eld networks which are composedof heterogeneous assets that access highly diverse and dynamic information sources over multiple domains. Byleveraging mosaic design principles, we can achieve the desired operational goals of deployed networks in a casestudy and ensure connectivity among entities for the exchange of information to accomplish the mission.