Abstract: A system includes one or more servers, and a plurality of wireless telecommunications devices registered with the system. The servers obtain corresponding client configuration states for at least some of the registered client devices, wherein a client configuration state for a given registered client device includes and/or is based on information about other devices with which the given registered client device can communicate in at least one direction. The servers determine and maintain a virtual representation of at least one hybrid network of gateways and the registered client devices. The servers determine a particular sub-network configuration of a particular sub-network for a particular client device, based on the virtual representation of the at least one hybrid network and on a client configuration state for the particular client device. The particular sub-network comprises at least one path between the one or more servers and the particular client device.

Abstract: A method in a computer network in which a user equipment (UE) connects to multiple packet cores, wherein each of said multiple packet cores assigns the UE a corresponding network address, the method comprising: (A) a virtual gateway associating a first network address with said UE and providing the UE with a second network address for communicating with and/or through said virtual gateway, said first network address and said second network address being distinct from the network addresses assigned to the UE by the packet cores; and (B) said virtual gateway communicating with said UE via one or more of said multiple packet cores, wherein the virtual gateway and the UE communicate using the first network address and the second network address, and wherein the virtual gateway acts as a gateway for the UE.