This project focuses on the implementation of a framework for mobile agents support within a grid environment project, namely InteGrade. Our goal is to present a framework where time consuming sequential tasks can be executed using mainly the idle cycles of a network of personal workstations. The mobile agents may be used to encapsulate long processing applications (tasks). These agents can mig...

Mobile Grid, is a full inheritor of the Grid with the additional feature that it supports mobile users and resources. Security is an important aspect in Grid based systems, and it is more complex to ensure this in a mobile platform owing to the limitations of resources in these devices. A Grid infrastructure that supports the participation of mobile nodes and incorporates security aspects will ...

This paper provides a discussion on the Mobile Grid concept, the revisions that this implies in the Grid technology and the altercations that have to be met in order to address the new computing paradigm, mainly focused on the aspect of resource administration, which is the heart of every Grid functionality. Grid computing has recently migrated from traditional high performance and distributed ...

Grid computing has emerged as a promising alternative to increase the capacity of processing and storage. It is an aggregation of dynamic, heterogeneous, and widely distributed resources, shared among different institutions. In order to provide load balancing and support for non-dedicated machines, the Grid middleware must be able to move computations among its nodes. This paper describes a tra...

Computation in the mobile grid nodes under the cellular network environment requires an efficient management of wireless channels along with the user mobility. Due to random movement of the mobile devices, the load over the cells in terms of initiation of new computation or carryover computation (handoff) may vary dynamically. This may result in non-availability of free channels for Inter-task ...

Dynamics is an inherent characteristic of computational grids. The volatile nodal availablity requires grid applications and services be adaptive to changes of the underlying grid topology. Mobile execution allows mobile users or tasks to relocate across different nodes in the grid. This poses new challenges to resource access control. Resource sharing in the grid coalition environment creates ...

Mobile device integration in grid environments is a challenge for many researchers. Due to the transient nature of mobile devices, service management is a critical, but often overlooked area of research. We propose a distributed broker responsible for the autonomic management of grid services. The broker provides self discovery and negotiation, self configuration and self healing for SOA based ...

Mobile Grid includes the characteristics of the Grid systems together with the peculiarities of Mobile Computing, with the additional feature of supporting mobile users and resources in a seamless, transparent, secure and efficient way. Security of these systems, due to their distributed and open nature, is considered a topic of great interest. In this article we present the practical results o...

Adapting wireless devices to communicate within grid networks empowers us by providing range of possibilities.. These devices create a mechanism for consumers and publishers to create modern networks with or without peer device utilization. Emerging mobile networks creates new challenges in the areas of reliability, security, and adaptability. In this paper, we propose a system encompassing mob...

Grid computing using wireless networks is receiving increasing attention and is expected to become a critical part of future grid computing. However, the inherent challenges of mobile environments such as mobility management, disconnected operation, device heterogeneity, service discovery, and resource sharing are significant issues in mobile grid computing. To achieve the best performance in a...