A patent landscape analysis distinguishing AETHER from prior MANET, mesh, and decentralized communication systems.
AI-adaptive mesh routing with federated weight updates
Per-node PPO with privacy-preserving federated aggregation.
Energy-aware multi-objective forwarding
Battery, mobility, and trust in a single learned scoring function.
Self-evolving wire protocol via in-band schema negotiation
Signed capability vectors enable zero-downtime upgrades.
Hardware-anchored DID with PQ recovery
Enclave attestation + Shamir social recovery using post-quantum signatures.
Intelligent multi-radio supervisor
Joint scheduler that minimizes a unified energy-latency-reliability Lagrangian.
Reputation-weighted relay incentive market
Per-byte credits gated by neighbor attestations + PoUW.