A Survey on Resource Allocation in Mobile Grid Computing

Due to recent advances in mobile computing and communication technologies, mobile ad hoc computational Grids(MG) are emerging as a new computing paradigm, enabling innovative applications through sharing of computing resources among mobile devices without any pre-existing network infrastructure. MG extends the traditional Grid computing paradigm to include a diverse collection of mobile devices enabled to communicate using radio frequency, infrared, optical and other wireless mechanisms. The devices coming into use in MG implementations are tiny sensors, wearable computing devices, miniature mobile robotic systems, Radio Frequency Identification tags (RFID), Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and paging devices, smartphones, tablets, hand-held computers, laptop computers and special purpose computers embedded into many modern appliances. Though many of these devices were initially developed to serve a specific, autonomous purpose, their potential for cooperation through the sharing of resources and capabilities, and the massive amounts of resources available due to their numbers, is quickly leading to applications resembling traditional Grid computing. This paper presents a survey of the current state of MG. It discusses the current research of resource allocation in MG and the potential challenges resulting from the unique characteristics of wireless grid devices.