Why does this matter operationally?
Resilience
The capacity of a connectivity system to maintain acceptable service levels when components fail, links degrade, or conditions change unexpectedly. Resilient architectures use redundancy, failover paths, and graceful degradation to keep operations running when ideal conditions cannot be guaranteed.
427 terms
Phase Noise
Phase noise is the undesirable short-term fluctuation of a signal’s phase around its nominal value. It appears as spectral spreading around a carrier and is a key metric of signal…
Concept/Framework
Physical Isolation
Physical isolation is the architectural practice of separating systems or zones so that communication or access requires crossing a deliberate physical boundary. It is used to contain risk, protect critical…
Concept/Framework
PID Controller
PID Controller is a feedback controller that uses proportional, integral, and derivative terms to regulate a process toward a desired setpoint. It is widely used in control systems.
Operations
Pipeline Leak Detection
The practice of monitoring a pipeline for signs of product loss or unauthorized interference along its length, using techniques including distributed acoustic sensing, pressure and flow analysis, and SCADA-integrated monitoring…
Concept/Framework
Plant-Wide Control Network
Plant-Wide Control Network is the communications infrastructure that connects control systems, devices, and operator systems across an entire plant to coordinate control, monitoring, and supervisory functions throughout the facility.
Concept/Framework
Policy Based Routing
Policy Based Routing is routing that uses rules or policies beyond the standard destination-based routing table to decide how traffic should be forwarded.
Protocol
Power Subsystem
Power Subsystem is the system responsible for generating, storing, regulating, and distributing electrical power within a vehicle or spacecraft. It supplies the electrical loads.
Hardware
Power Supply
A power supply is a device or subsystem that converts, regulates, and conditions electrical input to provide the voltage and current required by a load. It may include conversion, filtering,…
Hardware
Predictive Maintenance Model
Predictive Maintenance Model is an analytical model used to estimate when equipment is likely to require maintenance or fail, enabling proactive service planning through analysis of condition data and historical…
Software
Programmable Logic Controller
Programmable Logic Controller is an industrial controller used to automate machines and processes with deterministic logic execution. It is built for reliable control in industrial settings.
Hardware