A protocol for setting up ad hoc mobile clouds over spontaneous MANETs: A proof of concept

Abstract

The research community is interested in the use of shared, heterogeneous resources. The numerous benefits that distributed computing can provide in different fields led to the emergence of new distributed computing paradigms namely ad hoc mobile cloud computing, Cloud of Things, Jungle and Fog computing. The goal of this paper is to present a deep study and a comparison of the new distributed computing paradigms. We also present a proof of concept study of a proposed protocol for the deployment and the management of a resource sharing architecture composed of interconnected mobile nodes. We implemented our solution and tested it over small sized spontaneous networks. From the experiments, we obtained detailed measurements of the time required for the architecture's setup and the customers or providers nodes joining. This permits to prove the protocol feasibility in real distributed environment with acceptable times.