The full AETHER specification.
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Every nearby device discovers its neighbors over multiple radios, gossips link-state, and forms a dynamic topology that reshapes itself as people move, sleep, or vanish.
Every device is born with a DID anchored to its hardware secure enclave. Humans see a username; machines see a public key and a verifiable certificate chain.
Full communication stack delivered over peer-to-peer mesh, independent of carriers.
Per-node reinforcement learning replaces hand-tuned MANET heuristics and central SDN controllers.
Twelve-layer security matrix protects identity, routing, content, and the mesh itself.
Reference hardware spec for the open AETHER mesh node.
A unified multi-layer radio stack covering personal, urban, rural, mobile, and global ranges.
Energy management designed for always-on participation in a peer-to-peer mesh.
Planetary-scale simulation results.
An OS designed from the ground up for a network with no carrier and no cloud.
Every cloud primitive, reimagined as a peer-to-peer protocol.
An incentive market that rewards honest participation without requiring a blockchain consensus layer.
AETHER is the carrier of last resort — by design, not as an afterthought.
AI is not a feature; it is the substrate that makes the mesh adaptive.
Six novel claims, scoped to be defensible against prior art.
Mathematical performance analysis vs. cellular networks.
The full deliverable bundle accompanying the AETHER proposal.