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The rapid proliferation of autonomous systems—from drones to robotic swarms—has exposed critical limitations in centralized control architectures, including latency, single points of failure, and bandwidth constraints. This paper introduces , a decentralized networking protocol and coordination framework designed for heterogeneous autonomous agents. Idroide Net leverages a hybrid consensus mechanism combining directed acyclic graph (DAG) structures for data integrity and reputation-based trust scoring for agent reliability. We demonstrate through simulation that Idroide Net achieves sub-second reconfiguration under node failures, 40% lower overhead than traditional mesh networks, and resilience to Byzantine attacks in up to 30% of swarm nodes. The framework is validated on a testbed of 100 physical ground and aerial robots.
| Approach | Pros | Cons | |----------|------|------| | Centralized (e.g., ground station) | Simple coordination | Single point of failure | | Ad-hoc mesh (802.11s) | Decentralized | Overhead from routing floods | | Blockchain-based (e.g., IOTA) | Tamper-proof | High latency for real-time control | | Swarm algorithms (e.g., Ant colony) | Adaptive | No explicit security model | idroide net
Idroide Net achieved complete task allocation and victim mapping in 4.7 minutes vs. 8.2 minutes for centralized ROS 2 (which failed twice due to base station disconnection). We demonstrate through simulation that Idroide Net achieves
(from idro- , suggesting fluidity/water, and -net , network) is proposed as a bio-inspired, fluid topology network where each agent acts as both a data relay and a decision node. The name reflects the network’s ability to flow around obstacles and reconfigure seamlessly, much like water. Safety and Digital Responsibility
A node with trust below threshold is ignored by routing and excluded from consensus quorums.
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