Everyone Computing – The Birth of a New Technology

Most probably we all have heard about something known as “Grid Computing”. This computing paradigm enable computers on a network to share processing/computation tasks. Meaning some sort of parallel processing are going on, with the objective of getting any task done in minimum time by making intelligent use of available resources. Lots of research has been conducted and are still going on.
Now, imagine a world where our mobile phones connect to each other while being in range, for e.g., using bluetooth, and communicate, exchange computation tasks of each and every user. You might be thinking of the benefits of all these. Well, they are, more memory space, more cpu clock cycles, in terms of applications, you yourself you can imagine things that is possible using this technology.
Similar to this, we have something known as “Mobile Grid Computing”. However, does it take the social aspect into consideration, does it permit us to have our own mobile server running on our mobile phones, is it mature enough to be considered for building commercial applications,…. So to answer these questions, let us all join mind and heart together to make this new technology a really, which I named as, “Everyone Computing“. Meaning, everyone can help in the realisation of smart environments.

Discussions on this new concept/technology is being conducted in the “Pervasive Computing Society” group in www.researchgate.net.

If interested, please join the group and start discussing the different issues involved.

Controlling Access to Location-Based Services in Vehicular Mobile Pervasive Environments

This paper was published in the proceedings of “The Second International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies, SECURWARE 2008, August 25-31, 2008 -  Cap Esterel, France”, and then to the IEEE Computer Society Press. Below is the abstract.

“Management of access control to location-based services in vehicular mobile pervasive environments presents several new challenges such as invisibility, localized scalability and privacy. To our knowledge, merging location-based services in pervasive environments with vehicular mobile environments is still in its infancy. To this end, we present a descriptive architecture for controlling access to services. Based on a comparative analysis of different access control models, we devised a new set of access control requirements for such environments and show their integration in the proposed architecture.”

Collaborative Driving Support System in Mobile Pervasive Environments

In this work I investigated the feasibility of using Bluetooth technology to enable Inter-Vehicle Communication in smart environments. This is an initial investigation lots of research works in this field need to be undertaken. It was published as part of the “The Fourth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, ICWMC 2008, July 27 – August 1, 2008 – Athens, Greece”, and then to the IEEE Computer Society Press. Here is the abstract:

“The Bluetooth protocol can be used for inter-vehicle communication equipped with Bluetooth devices. This work investigates the challenges and feasibility of developing intelligent driving system providing time-sensitive information about traffic conditions and roadside facilities. The architecture for collaborative vehicle communication system is presented using the concepts of wireless networks and Bluetooth protocol. We discuss how vehicles can form mobile ad-hoc networks and exchange data by the on-board Bluetooth sensors. The key design concepts of the intelligent driving service infrastructure are analyzed showing collaborative fusion of multiple positional data could give a better understanding of the surrounding traffic conditions for collaborative driving. The technical feasibility of using Bluetooth for data exchange among moving vehicles is evaluated.”

Ubiquitous Computing: Dynamic Security Model

This work was presented as a poster at the University Of Mauritius in January 2007 as part of the First UOM Research Week. I presented a dynamic security model that can be used/considered to secure services deployed in ubiquitous/pervasive environments.

Dynamic Security Model

Modelling, Simulation and Reengineering of Business Process: Call Centers

This work was published in June 2006 in the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Business Process Outsourcing and Modeling (BPOM 2006) hosted by the University of Technology Mauritius. I investigated and proposed a model that companies can consider to successful approach the BPR process applied to their business processes and hence to their company as a whole, so as to improve performance, reduce overheads and maximize profits. Here is the abstract:

“Reengineering business processes involve changes in people, processes and technology over time. In this paper, a flexible business process modelling, simulation and reengineering (BPMSR) approach is presented. Modelling starts with precisely defining model objectives and boundaries, and carrying extensive data analysis. Simulation modelling allows testing and analysis of different scenarios to understand their impact on a broader ‘system’ and evaluate feedback before moving forward with reengineering implementation plans. The need for a flexible and adaptive methodology is stressed to augment efficiency and effectiveness of reengineering cycle. The application of BPMSR is discussed in the context of a typical call center.”