Recent Advances in Mobile Grid and Cloud Computing

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent progress in integrating mobile devices with grid and cloud computing, highlighting applications, challenges, and technological advances enabling resource sharing in dynamic mobile environments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments, research challenges, and applications in mobile grid and cloud computing systems.

Findings

Integration of mobile devices with grid and cloud systems is feasible and expanding.

Recent advances address challenges like dynamic network conditions and resource sharing.

The paper identifies key research directions for future mobile cloud computing applications.

Abstract

Grid and cloud computing systems have been extensively used to solve large and complex problems in science and engineering areas. These systems include powerful computing resources connected through high-speed networks. Due to recent advances in mobile computing and networking technologies, it has become feasible to integrate various mobile devices such as robots, aerial vehicles, sensors, and smartphones with grid and cloud computing systems. This integration enables design and development of next generation of applications through sharing of resources in mobile environments and also introduces several challenges due to dynamic and unpredictable network. This paper discusses applications, research challenges involved in design and development of mobile grid and cloud computing systems, and recent advances in the field.