A Survey on Security and Privacy Challenges in Mobile Grid Computing

The security is essential for all the applications on network. For providing the security to many applications on the network, number of mechanism are used. Grid computing is believed to be ultimate solution for meeting the increasing computation needs of the organizations. At present major focus in Grid computing is to improve the performance of the grid. However, user running an application on a remote machine in the grid-computing network requires assurance about privacy and integrity of his data. Mobile Grid Computing(MGC) is the combination of Grid Computing and Mobile Networks to bring benefits for mobile users, network operators, as well as grid computing providers. Here we have to explore the security problems in grid computing and the steps that can be taken to solve them. The ultimate goal of MGC is to enable execution of rich mobile applications of mobile devices. The prominent feature of the MGC is the collaboration of multiple entities to perform collaborative tasks using mobile devices. Currently, most of the security solutions for mobile grid environment use static set of algorithms and protocols. The NTRU algorithm is concluded as a best and fast algorithm for providing security on the clouds. NTRU is a public key cryptosystem, which provides best security to cloud computing by encrypting and decrypting the data. KeywordsMobile Grid Computing, Authentication, Secure Communication, Android Platform, Encryption, Decryption, NTRU, AES and throughput