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Decision Fusion & BFT Mesh

Gossip decision vectors with Byzantine-tolerant quorum for contested and lossy links.

Decision Fusion & BFT Mesh

≤512 bytes/drone/s decision vectors; N=20 tolerates f≤6 Byzantine faults with 2f+1=13 peer quorum; resilience ≥40% packet loss / ≥30% node failure.

Fuses at decision level rather than raw sensor streams. Primary 5.8 GHz OFDM carries full vectors; LoRa 868 MHz carries reduced ≤50 B payloads under ETSI EN 300 220 duty-cycle limits.

Lightweight PBFT adaptation for asynchronous gossip. Validated first in ROS 2/Gazebo with configurable packet-loss and fault injection.

Source: SWARMind Drones Proposal Draft § Inter-Drone Fusion.

Mission profile

Required for disaster-response and remote environmental monitoring where central uplinks are unavailable.