Patent attributes
Techniques are disclosed for decentralized data management using a geographic location-based consensus protocol in a network of computing resources such as, by way of example, a highly distributed system. For example, at a given consensus node of a consensus network comprising a plurality of consensus nodes configured to participate in a consensus protocol wherein at least a portion of the consensus nodes are mobile, a list is obtained of at least a subset of the plurality of consensus nodes that are predicted to be currently available to participate in the consensus protocol based on geographic location information. A message comprising a transaction to be validated is sent from the given consensus node to the subset of the plurality of consensus nodes in the obtained list. Techniques are also disclosed for adjusting a data protection policy based on the number of computing nodes, some of which are mobile, available to participate.
