The Endpoint Mesh: A Framework for Autonomous Detection and Response Without a Central Decision-Maker

Engineering notes

Any project, open-source or commercial, is free to implement all of it without permission or attribution. Known limitations are stated in the document rather than omitted: the M1 actor signal is defeatable by timing jitter, the M4 poisoning defence is a mitigation rather than immunity, key distribution and revocation are out of scope, and no fleet-scale benchmarks exist.

Chinese explanation / 中文解读

中文解读待补充：本站会优先为端到端自动驾驶、BEV感知、3D目标检测、轨迹预测、路径规划、LiDAR感知等高价值论文补充中文说明。

Original abstract

A defensive publication describing four composable mechanisms that together perform every function of a centralized SIEM with no central server in the decision path. M1 on-device actor-class discrimination, classifying whether the actor driving an attack is a human or a machine. M2 atomic reversible autonomous response, in which every action is staged, committed, verified, and automatically rolled back on verification failure. M3 signed verdict gossip with topological adjacency, in which peers exchange signed conclusions rather than raw events and adjacency is defined by recent communication rather than network proximity. M4 reputation-weighted leaderless cooperative learning, in which endpoints exchange verified lessons rather than data, with consensus checking before integration and no central aggregator. The document also specifies the routing consequence of M1: the actor classification selects the response architecture, because a machine-driven attack executes too quickly for a human to be in the loop while a human-driven attack does not. The mesh therefore does not replace centralized correlation. It routes around it only when the attacker is too fast for it. Section 14 applies the mechanisms to non-server endpoints including body-worn cameras, fixed camera meshes, vehicle-mounted systems, and uncrewed platforms, and states an explicit list of what is disclosed as prior art. This is published as prior art. No patent application has been filed on any mechanism described, and none will be. Any project, open-source or commercial, is free to implement all of it without permission or attribution. Known limitations are stated in the document rather than omitted: the M1 actor signal is defeatable by timing jitter, the M4 poisoning defence is a mitigation rather than immunity, key distribution and revocation are out of scope, and no fleet-scale benchmarks exist.

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