A method for improving data flow and data security in an existing wireless communications network comprising a central node and a plurality of remote nodes, during band-width-limiting conditions, the method including generating, by a processor at the central node, a hybrid network overlay to the existing wireless communications network, the hybrid network overlay including a remote overlay node for each remote node and a central overly node for the central node. The method further includes maintaining a distributed ledger having a blockchain architecture, the distributed ledger storing data transmitted among the central node and the remote nodes, including designating remote nodes as super nodes comprising using a link sensing mechanism and remote node processing characteristics to identify remote nodes having links with sufficient bandwidth and sufficient processing capacity to aggregate transactions and validate blocks, each super node participating in a block validation process using the hybrid network overlay.

A computer-implemented method for managing enterprise transactions includes creating an overlay to a physical communications network, adding one or more nodes to the overlay, designating one or more nodes of the overlay as super nodes, generating a distributed ledger to store the transactions, and replicating the distributed ledger to all nodes of the overlay. Generating the distributed ledger includes receiving, at the super nodes, transactions from the one or more nodes, assigning, by the super nodes, the transactions to a variable size block, validating, by the super nodes, the variable size block, and linking the validated variable size block to the distributed ledger.

A computer-implemented method for managing enterprise transactions includes creating an overlay to a physical communications network, adding one or more nodes to the overlay, designating one or more nodes of the overlay as super nodes, generating a distributed ledger to store the transactions, and replicating the distributed ledger to all nodes of the overlay. Generating the distributed ledger includes receiving, at the super nodes, transactions from the one or more nodes, assigning, by the super nodes, the transactions to a variable size block, validating, by the super nodes, the variable size block, and linking the validated variable size block to the distributed ledger.

A computer-implemented method for managing enterprise transactions includes creating an overlay to a physical communications network, adding one or more nodes to the overlay, designating one or more nodes of the overlay as super nodes, generating a distributed ledger to store the transactions, and replicating the distributed ledger to all nodes of the overlay. Generating the distributed ledger includes receiving, at the super nodes, transactions from the one or more nodes, assigning, by the super nodes, the transactions to a variable size block, validating, by the super nodes, the variable size block, and linking the validated variable size block to the distributed ledger.

A participant in a network is configured to query a data storage system to determine whether there have been any changes to a network. The participant receives a response to the query and determines, based at least in part on the response, whether reconfiguration is necessary. If the network has changed (e.g., if the network topology has changed), as indicated in the response, the system performs one or more actions in accordance with the response. Multiple participants in the network may query the data storage system so that, collectively, network updates are initiated by changes to data in the data storage system. The network may be an overlay network that allows communication according to a communication protocol, such as multicast, that may not be completely supported by a physical network substrate.

A participant in a network is configured to query a data storage system to determine whether there have been any changes to a network. The participant receives a response to the query and determines, based at least in part on the response, whether reconfiguration is necessary. If the network has changed (e.g., if the network topology has changed), as indicated in the response, the system performs one or more actions in accordance with the response. Multiple participants in the network may query the data storage system so that, collectively, network updates are initiated by changes to data in the data storage system. The network may be an overlay network that allows communication according to a communication protocol, such as multicast, that may not be completely supported by a physical network substrate.