Methods and systems for a mobile, broadband, routable internet

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, operates a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) by performing the steps of:

• providing a mobile, broadband, routable internet, in which a plurality of mobile devices interact as nodes in the MANET and in which packets are IP routable to the individual device independent of fixed infrastructure elements;
• and
• providing an adaptive transmit power control facility for a device within the network, the adaptive transmit power control facility adapted to adjust transmission power of the device based on at least one of the density of proximate devices in the network, the condition of a neighboring device on the network, a channel condition of the network, a service level condition, a network performance condition, an environmental condition of the device and an application requirement of the device.

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium that, when executing on one or more computers, operates a mobile ad hoc network (MANET) by performing the steps of:

• providing a mobile, broadband, routable internet, in which a plurality of mobile devices interact as nodes in the MANET and in which packets are IP routable to each of the devices independent of fixed infrastructure elements;
• and
• applying swarm intelligence to determine at least some parts of at least some routes through the mobile, broadband, routable internet.