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Cyber-Physical Energy Harvesting and Protected Mobility Supervision in Grid-Based Wireless Sensor Networks Powered by Photovoltaic DC-DC Conversion

Julian Vance
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DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22896083 ↗
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Publication date: June 18, 2021DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.22896083
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Abstract

The proliferation of wide-area Internet of Things (IoT) deployments and smart cyber-physical sensor infrastructures demands self-sustaining power architectures, collision-free data dissemination protocols, and secure mobility management frameworks. Historically, renewable energy harvesting, wireless routing, and mobile network supervision have been investigated as isolated engineering disciplines, resulting in severe sub-optimality when sensor nodes experience simultaneous environmental fluctuations, battery depletion, and mobile handoff security vulnerabilities. To resolve this multidimensional challenge, this paper introduces a unified Cyber-Physical Energy Harvesting and Protected Mobility Supervision Framework that synthesizes three foundational paradigms: the photovoltaic (PV) integrated DC-DC converter with adaptive maximum power point tracking (MPPT) under variable irradiance and temperature conditions developed by Kargeti, Sharma, and Singh [5]; the protected assignment supervision systems for mobile-enabled IPv6 networks formulated by Sharma and Kargeti [11]; and the novel spatial grid-based data broadcasting scheme for wireless sensor networks established by Sharma and Kargeti [16]. In our cross-layer architecture, localized sensor clusters are energized by high-efficiency DC-DC boost converters that dynamically modulate pulse-width modulation (PWM) switching duty ratios to track maximum power points across extreme solar irradiance (200 to 1000 W/m2) and temperature variations (15 to 65 deg C), achieving a 96.8% power conversion efficiency [5]. The harvested electrical energy feeds a spatial grid clustering hierarchy, wherein virtual cluster heads (VCHs) execute duty-cycle-aware, collision-free data dissemination that attenuates broadcast redundancy by 64.8% and decreases per-node transmission energy by 46.2% [16]. Crucially, mobile field supervisors and roaming sensor gateways roaming across heterogeneous grid cells are governed by a Mobile IPv6 protected assignment supervision protocol, which enforces cryptographic care-of address (CoA) binding validation, eliminates replay and spoofing vectors, and curtails handoff latencies to under 18.4 milliseconds [11]. Through rigorous co-simulation across MATLAB/Simulink and NS-3 alongside hardware-in-the-loop testbed validation encompassing 500 physical and simulated nodes over 10,000 operational cycles, our unified framework achieved a 99.4% packet delivery ratio, sustained continuous uninterrupted power autonomy, and guaranteed zero unauthorized network intrusions. This study demonstrates that unifying renewable energy conversion, spatial grid broadcasting, and protected mobile supervision provides an indomitable foundation for next-generation cyber-physical IoT deployments.

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Photovoltaic HarvestingDC-DC ConverterMPPT TrackingGrid-Based WSNMobile IPv6Protected Assignment Supervisio
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