Mobile code daemons for networks of embedded systems

Originally implemented to support wireless sensor networks, the lightweight mobile code daemons works on wired networks as well. The mobile code daemon we present is based on a core network protocol called the remote execution and action protocol (REAP), which is responsible for passing messages between nodes within our network. The authors have implemented them to run on multiple operating systems and architectures. The daemons use a peer-to-peer indexing scheme to find mobile code packages as needed. Calls to the daemons are automatically dereferenced to find the proper package for a node's OS and hardware.