One failure can isolate a region.
Central towers and fixed fibre routes create critical points that can disappear through power loss, damage, or distance.
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N01 · Resilient networks
Tessera™
The autonomous brain for self-healing networks.
A proposed software layer that helps decentralized devices find a new route when the network around them changes.
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The problem
Most networks depend on something staying still.
Static routes react too slowly.
Moving vehicles, metal structures, weather, and changing terrain can make yesterday’s best path unusable.
Closed hardware limits deployment.
Tightly coupled network systems make it difficult to combine the radios and edge devices already available.
The Tessera idea
Intelligence between the radio and the application.
Tessera is conceived as a hardware-agnostic routing layer. It observes the network, decides where a packet should go next, and adapts that decision as conditions change.
Wi-Fi
Bluetooth
RF
Satellite
Physical radios →
Dynamic routing
Continuously searches for a better path as nodes move, weaken, or disappear.
Edge intelligence
Designed to make routing decisions close to the network on low-power hardware.
Protocol hopping
Explores hand-offs between Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RF, and satellite links.
Priority traffic
Aims to protect critical messages when bandwidth becomes constrained.
How it is structured
Observe. Decide. Understand.
Three layers turn raw network conditions into routing decisions that an operator can see and, when necessary, override.
Sensory layer
Collects signal quality, battery health, movement, compute availability, and packet loss from every node.
Tessera brain
Uses reinforcement learning to evaluate topology and choose the next hop for each packet.
Control plane
Gives operators a live topology, network health, priority controls, and manual overrides.
A network that can recover
A path disappears. Another path forms.
The first research milestone is a simulation where an operator can remove a virtual node and watch traffic find a viable route around it.
Development target · Phase 01
Where it could matter
Built for places where connectivity cannot be taken for granted.
Rural connectivity
Solar-powered nodes pass connectivity from home to home until traffic reaches a fibre or satellite gateway.
Disaster response
Teams, vehicles, drones, and temporary radios form a network that can reorganise when infrastructure is lost.
Industrial operations
Robots and sensors maintain routes through warehouses, mines, and other environments where interference constantly changes.
Development path
Simulate. Emulate. Deploy.
Research plan · not a deployment claim
Phase 01
Simulate
Train and test routing behaviour inside a virtual 100-node network, including moving and failed nodes.
Phase 02
Emulate
Run the model across a small cluster of low-power physical devices and deliberately introduce interference.
Phase 03
Deploy
Measure latency, packet delivery, energy use, and resilience with a real operating partner in the field.
The ambition
Keep people connected when the infrastructure around them changes.
Tessera is MathBrooks research into network resilience: transforming complex routing intelligence into infrastructure that operators can understand and communities can depend on.
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