Tasking Assignment for Multiple Mobile Devices (Mobile Grid Computing)
Iury Cleveston Lucas Bortolini Fronza
The problem
We know that each year the number of mobile devices increase. Today, each person
has at least one device and these devices are in idle mode most of the time.
Besides that, there are computational problems that need more processing power like
rendering videos, applying filters to images and mathematical calculations of various kinds. If
we could use these idle devices to make these tasks, we would be able to solve these tasks in a
shorter time.
Our solution
Our idea is to use these available computational resources by creating a network between mobile devices, in which of these devices receives data packages to be processed. So, first, the users will upload an array to be sorted by multiple devices. A cloud application will receive this task and assign to other connected devices to make the processing. When the processing ends the device send the result back to the cloud application.
The implementation
Our implementation architecture is client/server, where we have a cloud permanently running and receiving tasks from mobile devices. For each task received the cloud distribute to mobile devices that are connected to it. The cloud will act as a Web Service, receiving requests from mobile devices and returning data in JSON format or in the respective format of the processed data. This application will be implemented for Android devices, so written in Java. From the App, the user will be able to view the tasks that the device is running and submit new tasks to the cloud.