Mobility-Aware Efficient Job Scheduling in Mobile Grids

In this paper, we present a node mobility prediction framework based on a generic mobile grid architecture. We show how this framework can be used to formulate a cost effective job scheduling scheme based on a predetermined pricing strategy at the wireless access point. The proposed scheme is for distributing grid computing jobs to the mobile nodes and considers the bandwidth constraints along with any internal job (e.g., call processing) arrival rate at the nodes. The simulation results point to the efficacy of our algorithm.