Parrotfish: Task Distribution in a Low Cost Autonomous ad hoc Sensor Network through Dynamic Runtime Reconfiguration

The Parrotfish project is a low cost, distributed environment for (partial) reconfiguration of distributed field programmable systems, e.g. sensor networks. In this paper we present architectures and results in which the wireless nodes of a distributed system can undergo runtime task-reversals under triggering from external conditions, using Bluetooth as a low cost wireless medium. The project gets its name from the small fish found in Florida waters, which can change gender as needed under group dynamics