Mixed-fleet capacity bounds
What is the analytical upper bound on hex-cell throughput as the speed-band distribution shifts? Closed-form solutions welcome — current internal work is empirical.
For Researchers
Cite. Evaluate. Extend.
VerSky is intended to be a citable, evaluable protocol — the primary sources are public, the simulation will be open, and collaboration is welcome.
§1 · Cite
Citation block, ready to drop in.
Three primary sources: the whitepaper, and the two pending U.S. patent applications. BibTeX below — paraphrase as your venue requires.
@techreport{prukpatarakul2026versky,
author = {Prukpatarakul, Jittapol},
title = {{VerSky Protocol Whitepaper}: An air traffic protocol
for the low-altitude century},
institution = {VerSky},
type = {Whitepaper},
number = {v1.0},
year = {2026},
month = {May},
url = {https://versky.org/whitepaper/versky-whitepaper-v1.0.pdf}
}
@misc{prukpatarakul2026altitude,
author = {Prukpatarakul, Jittapol},
title = {Altitude-Direction Encoding Protocol for Air Traffic
Management with Hexagonal Grid and Intersection
Separation},
howpublished = {U.S. Patent Application No. 19/551,620},
year = {2026},
month = {February}
}
@misc{prukpatarakul2026aacp,
author = {Prukpatarakul, Jittapol},
title = {{AI} Aerial Communication Protocol with Peer-to-Peer
Negotiation and Deterministic Fallback Resolution},
howpublished = {U.S. Patent Application No. 19/551,624},
year = {2026},
month = {February}
}§2 · Open Questions
Where the work is unfinished.
Honest list. These are questions the protocol design surfaces but does not close. Each is a credible PhD chapter or post-doc thread.
Adversarial AACP
Game-theoretic analysis of Sybil attacks against trust-scored negotiation. Where does the trust mechanism fail gracefully and where does it fail badly?
Reservation-conflict topology
Characterise the topology of conflicts in 4D space-time reservations under stochastic arrival models. Useful for capacity planning, autoscaling, and pricing.
Mode-transition safety
Formal verification of the four operating modes (Full / Degraded / Peer-Only / Standalone) — what invariants hold across the graceful-degradation chain and which can be broken?
Inter-protocol interop
How does a VerSky-compliant fleet interoperate with traditional ADS-B / Mode-S / Remote ID equipped vehicles in shared low-altitude airspace?
Scale-out simulation
10⁴ vehicle scenarios in real time on commodity hardware — what are the architectural sweet spots? Public benchmarks needed.
§3 · Reproducibility
Scenario dataset v1.0.
Three illustrative scenarios in machine-readable JSON. Each defines vehicles and environment parameters that exercise specific filed paragraphs of the protocol. These are starting-point inputs for third-party experimentation, not validated conformance baselines — a public schema and conformance harness ship in a later phase.
P2 ¶[0020], §5.8
Two-Vehicle Head-On (DFR)
Canonical AACP test: opposing-heading vehicles fail negotiation within 500 ms bound; both compute identical DFR yield. Reference scenario for determinism reproducibility.
two-vehicle-headon-v1.json · 1.6 KBDownload ↓
P1 ¶[0030], §3-§5
Asymmetric Traffic Surge
24 NE-bound vs 4 SW-bound vehicles through a 4-cell corridor. Characterises directional throughput under hex-cell capacity bounds. Connects to open question #1.
asymmetric-surge-v1.json · 1.5 KBDownload ↓
P2 ¶[0037]-[0038]
Communication Blackout — Mode Chain
Progressive link loss triggers Full → Degraded → Peer-Only → Standalone mode chain. Illustrates the 5-second standalone-activation threshold and the safety invariants the protocol is designed to preserve.
comm-blackout-v1.json · 2.1 KBDownload ↓
Released under CC-BY-4.0. Cite the scenario_id + version in publications. Have a scenario worth adding? Open a thread — we're building v1.1 from community contributions.
§4 · Collaborate
Joint papers welcome.
If you're working on any of the open questions above — or an adjacent angle we haven't listed — we'd like to hear from you. Reproducibility artefacts, simulation data, and pre-prints are happy to be shared under standard academic terms.