Abstract
This monograph establishes 259 prior art claims for a decentralized, connectionless timing and positioning architecture (TARDIS). It formalizes the PHYRFLY nomenclature to distinguish low-level, hardware-scheduled Physical-Layer synchronization primitives from higher-level application orchestration.
The core novelty centers on a Spectral Isolation Model, which maps transport-agnostic architecture to biological firefly wavelength differentiation; this enables swarm-level isolation through physics (e.g., 802.11 vs. 802.15.4) rather than protocol-layer logic, ensuring that independent swarms occupying the same physical space are "blind" to one another at the RF front-end.
Key technical advancements established as prior art include:
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The Neural Hierarchy (Neuron → Ganglion → Plexus → Cortex): A hierarchical orchestration model that separates flat, peer-to-peer timing infrastructure from application-layer data aggregation and command distribution.
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Regional Stability Digests (Ganglion Privacy): A method for masking individual node technosignatures by aggregating raw vitals into anonymous regional summaries, providing physical-layer privacy while maintaining global sensor utility.
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Council of Oracles: A multi-oracle time consensus mechanism where nodes with external time sources (GPS/NTP) peer-review each other to identify and demote deviant "God" nodes.
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Dormancy Lifecycle with Phantom Arbor Defense: A protocol for secure swarm re-entry after sleep, utilizing N-beacon verification and temporary authority penalties to prevent synchronization hijacking.
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Metabolic Stealth: A defensive behavior for sparse clusters that automatically reduces broadcast frequency to minimize RF footprint when solitary.
This document provides physics foundations and reference implementations across heterogeneous silicon (ESP32-C6, MG24, nRF52840), establishing these methods as a Public Utility to preclude the patent enclosure of distributed beamforming, autonomous swarm coordination, and continental-scale geophysical sensing.
Publication Date
2026-01-04
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Kirkland, Steven, "The PHYRFLY Opus: A Unified Standard for Spectrally Isolated Coordination, Neural Hierarchies, and Distributed Proprioception", Technical Disclosure Commons, (January 04, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/9123
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