Deployment of MANETs (mobile ad-hoc networks) in both urban and remote settings is of great importance to the success of tactical missions. Researches on MANETs in the past and now have mostly concentrated on performance and capacity, without emphasizing much on robustness and security. In a tactical MANET where disruptions can occur due to highly varying environment, mobility of the network, and adversarial attacks. Therefore, it is imperative to take into account security, robustness, and performance, as well as the trade-off relationships between them. In addtion, most previous works have focused on the attack at a specific layer in isolation, but the effect of an attack at a specific layer can spread to other layers. Our effort, then, becomes providing resilience to both attacks and environmental factors, taking in considerations the interactions and dependencies of different layers.

Our goal is to provide an architecture that can adapt to the services desired, with the right trade-off between performance, security, and fault tolerance.