HIGH-RESOLUTION CONTRACT-BASED WIRELESS NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION

Techniques to apply consensus-based network routing using distributed ledgers are disclosed. Communications networks are virtualized thereby enabling software defined networking (SDN). A SDN scheduler or allocator makes use of routing techniques where the state of the network is persisted in a form of storage that all nodes are in consensus is accurate. Since the SDN scheduler or allocator may rely on knowledge of the network state, it need not rely on optimistic routing techniques and thereby realize routing efficiencies. In some cases, the state of the network is comprised of MPLS histories where each MPLS history as a trace of network activity that is implemented as a well-marked and well-decorated tree. Persistence may be via a distributed ledger, software transactional memory or a relational database management system. Finally, operad techniques from abstract algebra may be applied to enable routing at an arbitrary level of fidelity ranging from the level of individual intermediate hops, to groups of hops within a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Autonomous System (AS) domain, to BGP AS domains themselves.