Latency-Aware Resource Allocation over Heterogeneous Networks: A Lorentz-Invariant Market Mechanism

arXiv:2604.03897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a telecom-native auction mechanism for allocating bandwidth and time slots across heterogeneous-delay networks, ranging from low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations to delay-tolerant deep-space relays. The Lorentz-Invariant Auction (LIA) treats bids as spacetime events and reweights reported values based on the \emph{horizon slack}, a causal quantity derived from the earliest-arrival times relative to a public clearing horizon.