Wireless Grid Computing: A Survey
Sunilkumar S. Manvi, Mahantesh N. Birje · IETE Journal of Education · 2009
Grid computing enables transparent access to shared and/or idle computing, storage, and network resources anywhere, anytime, to any grid user with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS). Wireless grids extend the capability of grid computing to wireless devices. The number of users using laptops, PDAs, cell phones, and other wireless devices is increasing leading to more networked wireless devices, and creating a vast collective potential of unexploited resources. Wireless grid computing with its model of coordinated resource sharing may provide a way to utilize such resources that are normally distributed throughout a grid. Grid Computing will be the major area of focus in the future days. We may have Gridnet in the future as we have Internet today. In this survey paper, we tried to cover the entire spectrum of wireless grids: wireless grid computing, its architectures, challenges, communication paradigms, applications, and different standards related to grids.