AETHER's decentralized peer-to-peer architecture turns every device into a router, relay, and endpoint. Hybrid geographic + reputation routing, CRDT state, S2-cell sharding to 10 billion nodes.
BLE beacons + UWB ranging + Wi-Fi probe + LoRa CHIRP advertise capabilities, RSSI, and trust within 200 ms of proximity.
Hybrid geographic + reputation-weighted DSR. AI agent on every node tunes hop weights from live telemetry.
Packets fan out across top-K paths; congestion gradients propagate via ECN-like markings.
Sub-second reroute on link loss via pre-computed backup arcs and bloom-filter hop summaries.
Hierarchical S2-cell sharding + Kademlia DHT. Simulated to 10⁹ nodes with O(log N) lookup.
Consensus is local. Global state is eventually consistent via CRDTs. No company can switch it off.