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Authors : Dr. T. SASIKALA

part of The Research Monograph Series in Computing, Electrical & Communication Networks book series

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Grid computing is a large-scale virtual computing environment where geographically distributed resources collaboratively provide an exceptional infrastructure for solving complex, scientific and computing tasks. The emerging Grid Community is trying to incorporate mobile devices into the Grid forming Mobile Grid. The rationale behind creating the mobile grid is that the number of mobile device users is exploding and the present mobile devices are equipped with high speed processors and large memory with advanced technology at ever-faster pace. The mobile devices also have advantages over fixed computing resources such as mobility, portability, and pervasiveness. In addition to this, there arelots of highly capable mobile devices, idle most of the time in the same enterprise network. Further, the mobile devices can be applied in the field like wildfire prevention, e-health system, scientific, engineering and commercial purposes where Grid computing is probably employed.......


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