Managing Handheld Devices in Ad-Hoc Collaborative Computing Environments

The noticeable advance in the area of computer technology has paved the way for the invention of powerful mobile devices. However, limited storage, short battery life, and relatively low computational power define the major problems of such devices. Due to the ever increasing computational requirements, such devices may fail to process needed tasks under certain constraints. One of the proposed solutions to this drawback is the introduction of Collaborative Computing, a new concept dealing with the distribution of computational tasks amongst several handhelds. This paper introduces the basics of Collaborative Computing, and proposes a new protocol that aims at managing and optimizing computing tasks in Ad-Hoc Collaborative Computing Environments.

• Alaa Alwani
• Hassan Artail
• Haidar Safa
• Ayman Abi Abdallah
• Bashir Basha
• Tarek Abdel Khalek

• Handheld devices
• Collaborative Computing
• mainprocess
• Collaboration Table.

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