Wireless Grid Computing over Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks with Mobile Agent

Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) opens a novel area for grid computing to extend pervasive computation in wireless environment. In this paper, a mobile agent based approach is proposed for building computation grid over MANET that is characterized as self-organizing and without fixed infrastructure. It distributes computations and aggregate resources through mobile agent. As an autonomous entity, it visits nodes with sufficient battery power and resource capability, and negotiates their resource provision for running the computation job. It solves the problem of network topology change due to node mobility or power consumption, which may affect the stability of grid. Also it introduces flexibility in handling different cooperation models of nodes for resource sharing, thus is able to collect a lot of nodes in MANET to participate in grid computing.