Collaborative distributed communication in heterogeneous environments: A comprehensive survey

This paper presents the different aspects with the help of which the collaborative distributed communication in heterogeneous devices can be achieved based on existing techniques and methods. This paper gives a brief summary and analysis of the challenges existing in implementing the collaborative distributed communication in heterogeneous devices and how these challenges can be overcome by using some of the previously proposed techniques. This paper also presents the various different architectures used for collaborative distributed communication which were recently implemented and used. This paper also illustrates the possible existing solutions to the problems in providing collaborative environment with the help of some recently proposed protocols which provide efficient collaborative systems. In this paper by illustrating the models of distributed systems and various protocols to implement solution can help in building a proper design of collaborative system using which we can solve the problem of collaboration amongst heterogeneous devices. We can select appropriate distributed system architecture and suitable heterogeneous protocol for building collaborative system as per requirements. Such systems can be very helpful in scenarios where the communication infrastructure fails owing to natural calamity or any other reason like wars. In collaborative heterogeneous networks each node can act as individual data processing units which can use each other׳s processing power in collaboration to achieve a desired compute intensive or common goal.