Mobile agent hardware design for distributed wireless networks

For more than a century, the communications systems have been evolving towards hierarchical networking architectures. The central problem in such networks is that the communications domain is a separate entity to the applications domain. With the advent of powerful and small microcontrollers and cheap memory, it is now feasible to start merging these two domains into one Holonic domain, where all contributing nodes participate together providing both roles of communication and application functionality. A flatter network infrastructure becomes possible, and the entire system of nodes can be viewed as a distributed intelligent system. This report is based upon the examination and design of an electronic device enabling the development of distributed intelligent systems. Specifically focusing on the key hardware requirements for constructing a small modular package for communication, data processing, and memory support for a wireless distributed intelligent system.