International Journal of Engineering and Technology

In mobile grids, scheduling the computation tasks and the communication transactions onto the target architecture is the important problem when a mobile grid environment and a pre-selected architecture are given. Even though the scheduling problem is a traditional topic, almost all previous work focuses on maximizing the performance through the scheduling process. The algorithms developed this way are not suitable for real-time embedded applications, in which the main objective is to minimize the energy consumption of the system under tight performance constraints. This paper entails an energy constrained hierarchical task scheduling algorithm for Mobile Grids to minimize the power consumption of the mobile nodes. The task is rescheduled when the mobile node moves beyond the transmission range. The performance is estimated based on the average delay and packet delivery ratio based on nodes and flows. The performance metrics are analysed using NS-2 simulator.