We are about Research, Evaluation and Innovation.

The Virtual Markets and Wireless Grids project investigates the tremendous value proposition that wireless grid networks offer to both increase access to wireless communication services, and to develop new economic sectors utilizing ubiquitous networks to access grid services.

The project is researching issues associated with nomadic ad-hoc resource sharing, which is an effort to bind together developments in Grid, P2P Computing and Webservices along with ad-hoc and wireless networking. The ultimate vision of the grid is that of an adaptive network offering secure, inexpensive, and coordinated real-time access to dynamic, heterogeneous resources, potentially traversing geographic, political and cultural boundaries but still able to maintain the desirable characteristics of a simple distributed system, such as stability, transparency, scalability and flexibility.

Areas for grid applications research include:
• Emergency Services and Disaster Response for private and public agencies.
• Hospital and Healthcare information sharing and coordination for practitioners.
• Home/Personal networking to connect them with devices, friends and families across boundaries.
• Enhancing inclusion and involvement with underrepresented members of society.

The Wireless Grids Lab is a research center supported through the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and works in conjunction with faculty, students, and other organizations within and outside of the University who join with us on projects and activities.