A cost model of communication in distributed computations in tactical environment

One needs a good communication cost model to understand how best to optimize the off-loaded computation in a tactical environment. In practical scenarios, complications also arise from the in-band and out-of-band channel congestion interference. This can happen due to the intentional and/or unintentional adversary equipment and will affect both the nature of algorithms and the sequence of steps in their execution. As a first step towards solution of the above problems, we present a model for a multi-node tactical network with resource constraints with and without presence of some adversary nodes.