MOBILE COMPUTING

EEM 825/ PEE411/CSM045

Credits: 4

Unit I Syllabus

Introduction
What is mobile computing?, Comparison to wired networks, Why go
Networks, Types of wireless devices, Mobile objects, Moving objectmobile?, Type of Wireless Communication
databases (MOD), Issues in Mobile
Computing, Applications of mobile computing, Challenges,Future of mobile
Overview of Wireless Telephony computing.
Introduction to Cellular Mobile Systems: Basic cellular system, operation of cellular
Interface, Channel Structure, Channel assignment, Location management: systems, Air -
HLR, VLR.
Unit II
Mobility Management in Cellular Mobile Systems:
Cellular architecture, Co-channel interference, Mobility: handoff, types of handoffs; location
management, HLR-VLR scheme, hierarchical scheme, predictive location management schemes.
Generations of Telecommunication Systems :
GSM: Mobile services, System Architecture, Radio, interface, Protocols, Localization and Calling,
Handover,Security, New data services, GSM, Short Message Service, VOIP service for Mobile Networks,
GPRS
Third-Generation Systems:
W-CDMA and cdma2000; Improvements on Core Network;
Quality of Service in 3G, Wireless Local Loop: Wireless Local Loop Architecture;
Deployment Issues; TR-45 Service Description;Wireless LocalLoop Technologies. TETRA,
UMTS, and IMT-2000: UMTS Basic Architecture, UTRA FDD mode,UTRA TDD mode.

Unit IlI
Wireless LAN: Infrared vs. Radio transmission, Infrastructure and Ad hoc Networks,
IEEE 802.11: System architecture, Protocol architecture, Physical layer, Medium Access Control layer, MAC
management, Future development;
HIPERLAN: Protocol architecture, Physical layer, Channel access control sublayer, Medium Access Control
sublayer, Information bases and Networking.
Bluetooth, Wireless Broadband (WiMax)

Unit IV
Mobile Network Layer
Mobile IP: Goals, assumptions and requirements, Entities and Terminology, IP packet delivery, Agent
advertisement and discovery, Registration, Tunneling and Encapsulation, Optimizations, Reverse
 tunneling, Ipv6; Dynamic host configuration protocol, Ad hoc networks MANET: Routing, Destination
sequence distance vector, Dynamic source routing, Hierarchical algorithms, Alternative metrics.
Mobile Transport Layer: Traditional TCP: Congestion control, Slow start, Fast retransmit/fast recovery,
Implications on mobility: Indirect TCP, Snooping TCP, Mobile TCP, Fast retransmit/fast recovery,
Transmission/time-out freezing, Selective retransmission, Transaction oriented TCP.
Unit V
Mobile Computing Architecture: Three Tier Architecture for mobile computing, Design considerations,
Mobile Computing through Internet.
File System Support for Mobility: Distributed file sharing for mobility support,Coda and other storage
manager for mobility support
Language Support, Wireless application protocol, Mobile agents, security and fault tolerance, Service
Discovery, Device Management, Wireless devices and their Operating System : PalmOS; Windows CE;
Android, Symbian OS; Linux for Mobile Devices.
Reference Books:
1. Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Addison wisely, Pearson Education
2. William C. Y. Lee, Mobile Cellular Telecommunications, TMH
3. YiBang Lin and Imrich Chlamtech, Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture : (Wiley).
4. Rajkamal, Mobile Computing, Oxford Press.
5. Rappaort, Wireless Communications Principals and Practices.
6. YI Bing Lin, Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures, John Wiley.
7. Uwe Hansmann, Lothar Merk, Martin S. Nicklous, Thomas Stober, Principles of Mobile
Computing, Springer
8. Asoke KTalukder and Roopa Yavgal, Mobile Computing, TMH.
9. Kumkum Garg, Mobile Computing :Theory and Practice, Pearson.