Abstract:

In today’s digitally interconnected world, achieving sovereign control over decentralized communication infrastructures has become a strategic imperative for national autonomy, security, and trust. Mesh Virtual Private Networks(VPNs), enabling peer-to-peer (P2P) communication through techniques such as UDP Hole Punching, offer resilience and independence from centralized service providers. However, traditional Mesh VPNs lack continuous observability once the initial handshake is complete, limiting sovereign operators’ ability to monitor ongoing communications or detect anomalies. This paper presents a sovereignty-driven monitoring framework that deploys lightweight agents on each node to securely collect system and application logs, transmitted to a Central Monitoring Server under sovereign control. Redundancy is ensured via Backup Agents and a Heartbeat Mechanism, mitigating risks if the central server is compromised. Logs are analyzed in real time using platforms such as Elasticsearch, Prometheus, and Grafana, enabling autonomous oversight while preserving local control.

Experiments in simulated mesh environments demonstrate improved detection of anomalies, low overhead, and resilience under node churn. The proposed architecture advances Digital

Sovereignty by ensuring transparent, autonomous, and locally governed monitoring and fraud detection.