FST Graduate Research Topic

Research Topic: Memory resource sharing between handheld and other computers.
Suggested By: Mahmoud Abaza
Last Update: February 24th, 2007

The main idea behind virtual memory was to allow computers with limited amount of main memory to run programs that exceed the memory capacity of those computers. Virtual memory systems used portions of secondary storage to store pages of running processes. Pages which were kept on secondary storage were selected among those that are the least likely to be needed during execution. The concept of virtual memory can be revisited these days to allow limited-memory handheld computers to use the main memory of larger computers (disk top or lap top computers) as a temporary storage to improve the performance. This project examines the feasibility of offloading the memory of handhelds, while in the range of a wireless network. Ideally, the pages should be sent to consented computers as crude pages. Other forms of offloading could be also tried for the sake of testing the possibility of using this technique.