R07 (Elective - I) 4-1 MOBILE COMPUTING Syllabus

MOBILE COMPUTING

(Elective - I)

UNIT - I

Introduction to Mobile Communications and Computing : Mobile Computing (MC) : Introduction to 

 

MC, novel applications, limitations, and architecture.

GSM : Mobile services, System architecture, Radio interface, Protocols, Localization and calling, 

 

Handover, Security, and New data services.

UNIT - II

(Wireless) Medium Access Control : Motivation for a specialized MAC (Hidden and exposed terminals, 

 

Near and far terminals), SDMA, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA.

UNIT - III

Mobile Network Layer : Mobile IP (Goals, assumptions, entities and terminology, IP packet delivery, 

 

agent advertisement and discovery, registration, tunneling and encapsulation, optimizations), Dynamic 

 

Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

UNIT - IV

Mobile Transport Layer : Traditional TCP, Indirect TCP, Snooping TCP, Mobile TCP, Fast retransmit/fast 

 

recovery, Transmission /time-out freezing, Selective retransmission, Transaction oriented TCP.

UNIT - V

Database Issues : Hoarding techniques, caching invalidation mechanisms, client server computing with 

adaptation, power-aware and context-aware computing, transactional models, query processing, recovery, 

 

and quality of service issues.

UNIT - VI

Data Dissemination: Communications asymmetry, classification of new data delivery mechanisms, pushbased 

 

mechanisms, pull-based mechanisms, hybrid mechanisms, selective tuning (indexing) techniques.

UNIT - VII

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs): Overview, Properties of a MANET, spectrum of MANET 

 

applications, routing and various routing algorithms, security in MANETs.

UNIT - VIII

Protocols and Tools : Wireless Application Protocol-WAP. (Introduction, protocol architecture, and 

 

treatment of protocols of all layers), Bluetooth (User scenarios, physical layer, MAC layer, networking,

security, link management) and J2ME.

TEXT BOOKS :

1. Jochen Schiller,“Mobile Communications”,Addison-Wesley. (Chapters 4,7,9,10,11),second edition,

2004.

2. Stojmenovic and Cacute, “Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing”, Wiley, 2002,

ISBN 0471419028. (Chapters 11, 15, 17, 26 and 27)

REFERENCES :

1. Reza Behravanfar, “Mobile Computing Principles: Designing and Developing Mobile Applications with

UML and XML”, ISBN: 0521817331, Cambridge University Press, October 2004,

2. Adelstein, Frank, Gupta, Sandeep KS, Richard III, Golden , Schwiebert, Loren, “Fundamentals of

Mobile and Pervasive Computing”, ISBN: 0071412379, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005.

3. Hansmann, Merk, Nicklous, Stober, “Principles of Mobile Computing”, Springer, second edition, 2003.

4. Martyn Mallick, “Mobile and Wireless Design Essentials”, Wiley DreamTech, 2003.