The concept of grid computing was widely used a few years ago in scientific research, oil and gas fields, banking and education. In this work, we adopt the idea of grid computing but bring it to mobile and ubiquitous devices instead of traditional computers. Therefore, we propose a new concept: Mist Computing. Mist computing complements cloud computing where processing is performed far away, in the "cloud". Similar research conducted by Chu [5] extends the implementation of grid computing to mobile and ubiquitous devices and addresses some limitation issues introduced by mobile and ubiquitous devices, such as limited resources and limited battery life. In our definition, mist means that the emphasis of computation and interaction occurs at the edge of the cloud, thus extending cloud computing to the peer-to-peer direction. In our research, mobile devices such as smartphones are used as data collection devices for real processes and as computing environments for augmented processes. Figure 3. Data collection for an augmented process RELATED WORK Ha b...
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