Communication balancing considering portable wireless nodes in a LAN-WLAN cluster

Abstract

In the past, the most common way of network-based computing was, through wired networks. However, with advances in wireless communication technology, the Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) has become a viable option for performing distributed computing. Taking this novel scenario into account, in this paper we present a cluster based on wireless and wired nodes. In this cluster, the wireless nodes can appear and disappear dynamically in a controlled way. We define a high level communication protocol in order to achieve mt efficient load balance and a reasonable execution and communication time within the cluster. Different communication techniques are also studied.