LECTURE ZERO- INTRODUCTION

Course details
LTP – 3 0 0 [Three lectures and One Tutorial/week]

Text Book
 FUNDAMENTALS OF MOBILE AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING -
MCGRAW HILL EDUCATION - ADELSTEIN FRANK, SANDEEP K.
S. GUPTA, GOLDEN G. RICHARD III, LOREN SCHWIEBERT 1st
edition 2005

 Prerequisite - Computer Networks (CSE306).

© LPU :: INT418 - Mobile Computing

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Detail of Academic Tasks
INT418

AT1: Test1 Lecture #14 (Before

MTE)

AT2: Test2 Lecture #28 (After MTE)

AT3: Quiz Lecture #35 (After MTE)

Course Objectives
• To understand the basics of mobile computing and
pervasive computing.

• To study about the underlying wireless networks.

• To understand the sensor and adhoc networks and to

develop mobile computing environment.
Course Contents
What is it?
Who needs it?
History
Future
Course overview
Literature
A computer in 2017
Advances in technology

– More computing power in smaller devices

– Flat, lightweight displays with low power
consumption
– New user interfaces due to small dimensions
– More bandwidth
– Multiple wireless techniques
A computer in 2017
Technology in the background
– Device location awareness: computers adapt to their
environment
– User location awareness: computers recognize the
location of the user and react appropriately (call
forwarding)

“Computers” evolve
– Small, cheap, portable, replaceable
What is Mobile Computing?
Aspects of mobility

– User mobility: users communicate “anytime,

anywhere, with anyone”
(example: read/write email on web browser)
– Device portability: devices can be connected anytime,
anywhere to the network
What is Mobile Computing?
What is Mobile Computing?
The demand for mobile communication creates the
need for integration of wireless networks and existing
fixed networks

– Local area networks: standardization of IEEE 802.11

– Wide area networks: GSM and ISDN

– Internet: Mobile IP extension of the Internet protocol

IP
What is Mobile Computing?
What is Mobile Computing?
Mobile Computing : A technology that allows
transmission of data, via a computer, without having
to be connected to a fixed physical link.

Mobile voice communication is widely established

throughout the world and has had a very rapid increase in
the number of subscribers to the various cellular networks
over the last few years.
Why we are studying this course?
An extension of this technology is the ability to send and
receive data across these cellular networks. This is the
principle of mobile computing.

Mobile data communication has become a very important

and rapidly evolving technology as it allows users to
transmit data from remote locations to other remote or
fixed locations.

This proves to be the solution to the biggest problem of

business people on the move - mobility.
Application Areas
Vehicles
Nomadic User
Smart mobile phone
Intelligent house or office
Meeting room/conference
Taxi/Police/Fire squad fleet
Disaster relief and Disaster alarm
Games
Military / Security
Nomadic Computing
Nomadic computing is the use of mobile computing
technology to connect to the global Internet or use
specific data resources from a stored location while
moving around from one place to another.
Latest in Telecommunication
Long Term Evolution Enabled
Devices
LTE Enabled Devices
History
History
History

Proxim's High Speed RadioLAN’s products for indoor wireless

RangeLAN5 product family communication
History
Course overview: Networking
Bottom – Up Approach
Course overview: A large spectrum
Literature
William Stallings – Wireless Communications
Jochen Schiller – Mobile Communications /
Mobilkommunikation
Fundamentals of mobile and pervasive computing -
Adelstein Frank, Sandeep K. S. Gupta
Andrew Tanenbaum – Computer Networks, plus other
books
James D. Solomon – Mobile IP, the Internet unplugged
Charles E. Perkins – Ad-hoc networking
Plus other books on specialized topics
The Future
With the rapid technological advancements in Artificial
Intelligence, Integrated Circuitry and increases in
Computer Processor speeds, the future of mobile
computing looks increasingly exciting.

With the emphasis increasingly on compact, small mobile

computers, it may also be possible to have all the
practicality of a mobile computer in the size of a hand
held organizer or even smaller.