Mobile communication

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 Layout
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• Course strategy

• Office work

• Syllabus

• Why studying this

course
• Introduction
 Course strategy
• Use your formal email to attend the meeting ( use your name and a formal picture - the same used in
final course test)

• Attendce list will be posted in the meeting chat at the beginning of each lecture

Office work
• Join google class room ( the code is provided in the chat section of the meeting )

• https://classroom.google.com/c/NDEzNjQ4MzEyOTkz?cjc=q3phboq
• Homework, quizzes and test will be posted in the class as well as the lecture notes.
Office work

• Class attendance : 2 marks

• Assignment(& homework): 3 marks
• Quizzes : three quiz per course total weight of 3 marks
• projects to those whom will to do
WHY STUDYING THIS COURSE
Mobile communication size!!!
There are TWO aspects of mobile computing

User mobility :- User communicate "anytime", Anywhere, with anyone.

Device Portability:- Device can be connected anytime, anywhere to network

Mobile computing systems

Mobile computing systems are computing systems that may be easily moved
physically and whose computing capabilities may be used while they are being
moved.
Examples are laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and mobile phones.
 HOW TO DISTINGUISH MOBILE
COMPUTING SYSTEMS FROM OTHER
COMPUTING SYSTEMS
Tasks that they are designed to perform,
The way that they are designed,
The way in which they are operated.

these added functionalities are the reason for separately characterizing mobile computing systems.
THE CONCEPTS OF MOBILE
COMPUTING
The main concept of mobile computing involves

Mobile communication Network

 Mobile hardware
 Mobile software
 Mobile communication
• Refers to the infrastructure put in place to ensure that seamless and
reliable communication goes on.
• These would include devices such as protocols, services, bandwidth,
and portals necessary to facilitate and support the stated services.

Mobile communications refers to a form

of communications which does not
depend on a physical connection
between the sender and receiver. It
facilitates the users to move from one
physical location to another during
communication.
Mobile hardware
• Includes mobile devices or device components that receive or access the service of
mobility.
• They would range from portable laptops, smartphones, tablet Pc's, Personal Digital
Assistants.
• These devices will have a receptor medium that is capable of sensing and receiving signals.
• These devices use an existing and established
network to operate on. a wireless network

• These devices are configured to operate in

full duplex, (they are capable of sending and
receiving signals at the same time)..
 Mobile software

• Is the actual program that runs on the mobile hardware.

• A mobile Software, most commonly referred to as an app, is a type of application

software designed to run on a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet
computer.

• Mobile Software frequently serve to provide users

with similar services to those accessed on PCs.
 A Brief History of Mobile Computing

Abacus : Small size and portable, calculating only, no storage or interchange information.
First mobile storage systems can be traced back only as far as the advent of the age of electronics.
Mobile communication
THE DIMENSIONS OF MOBILITY
• We will used the term the dimensions of mobility to describe the set
of properties that distinguishes the mobile computing system from
the stationary computing system
• Therefore, we need to look at those elements that are outside of the
stationary computing, these added dimensions will help us pick out
variables that in turn allow us to divide and conquer the problems of
mobile computing.
 ADDED DIMENSIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING

1. location awareness,
2. network connectivity quality of service (QOS),
3. limited device capabilities
(particularly storage and CPU),
4. limited power supply,
5. support for a wide variety of user interfaces,
6. platform proliferation, and
7. active transactions

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