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Chapter 16

Self-Coniguration and
Administration of Wireless Grids

Ashish Agarwal
Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Amar Gupta
University of Arizona, USA

ABSTRACT

A Wireless Grid is an augmentation of a wired grid that facilitates the exchange of information and
the interaction between heterogeneous wireless devices. While similar to the wired grid in terms of its
distributed nature, the requirement for standards and protocols, and the need for adequate Quality of
Service; a Wireless Grid has to deal with the added complexities of the limited power of the mobile
devices, the limited bandwidth, and the increased dynamic nature of the interactions involved. This
complexity becomes important in designing the services for mobile computing. A grid topology and
naming service is proposed which can allow self-configuration and self-administration of various pos-
sible wireless grid layouts.

INTRODUCTION The emergence of the Wireless Grid meets

all these criteria and is fueled by technological
advances in grid computing and wireless technol-
ogy. The ultimate vision of the grid is that of an
adaptive network offering secure, inexpensive,
and coordinated real-time access to dynamic,
heterogeneous resources, potentially traversing
geographic boundaries but still able to maintain
the desirable characteristics of a simple distributed
system, such as stability, transparency, scalability

Foster (2002) offers a checklist for recognizing a
“grid”. A grid allows

• Coordination of resources that are not sub-

ject to centralized control;

• Use of standard, open, general-purpose

protocols and interfaces; and

• Delivery of nontrivial qualities of service.