Automated or semiautomated surveillance monitoring involves movement tracking and sensor handoff. In order to track moving objects over a large area, sensor coverage needs to overlap significantly. Overlapping coverage can be modeled using the concept of backup coverage, a location modeling...

Peering between network providers is modeled as a set of interconnections at hub nodes. The paper employs probabilistic methods to determine the likelihood of a path between nodes, under a variety of simulated disruptions or failures of parts of a network. Reliability is measured as the...