CT78                                Mobile Computing

Course Contents (ALCCS)

 

Details

 

1.             Introduction 

 

1.1          History

1.2          Challenges In Mobile Computing,

1.3          Mobile Computing Architecture

1.4          Co-Channel Interference

1.5          Frequency Reuse

1.6          Capacity Enhancement By Cell Splitting, Sectoring Etc.

1.7          Handoff

1.8          Evolution Of Mobile System: SDMA, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, GSM

1.9          Open Research Topics

 

2.         Emerging Technologies

 

2.1          Bluetooth

2.2        Radio Frequency Identification (Rfid)

2.3        Wireless Broadband (WiMAX

2.4        Mobile IP

2.5        Cellular IP

2.6        Internet Protocol Version 4 and 6 (IPv4, IPv6)

 

3.         Mobility Management

 

3.1          Cellular Architecture

3.2                Types Of Handoffs

3.3                Channel Allocation

3.4                Location Management

3.5                AUC, HLR, VLR, EIR Schemes

 

 

4.             Wireless Transmission 

 

4.1          Radio Transmission

4.2          Signal & Antennas

4.3          Signal Propagation

4.4          Medium Access Control (MAC)

4.5          Wireless LAN/WAN

 

 

 

 

5.             Wireless Protocols

 

5.1          Wireless TCP

5.2          Session Mobility

 

6.            Information Management 

 

6.1          Data Dissemination and Broadcast Models

6.2          Mobile Database and Mobile Transaction

 

7.            Location-Independent and Location-Dependent Computing Models 

 

7.1          Naming, Locating, and Routing

7.2          Mobility and Handoff

7.3          Location Awareness and Environmental Discovery

 

7.1.1       Human-Computer Interactions 

 

7.1.1       Reduced User Interfaces

7.1.2       Wearable Computing

7.1.3       Pervasive Computing

 

7.2.1       Mobile Applications and Services 

 

7.2.1       Mobile Agents]

7.2.2       Wireless Web

 

7.2.2.     Security Issues in Mobile Computing

 

7.2.3       Authentication in Mobile Applications

7.2.4       Privacy Issues

 

7.2.3       Power Management and Energy-Awareness Computing

 

Books:

1.     Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Pearson Education

2.     William Stallings, High-Speed Networks and Internets, Performance and Quality of Service, Pearson Education

 

Reference Books:

1.     Ashoke K Talukder, Roopa R Yavagal, Mobile Computing, Tata Mc-Graw Hill

2.     T.G. Palanivelu, R. Nakkeeran, Wireless and Mobile Communications, PHI

3.     Rappaport, Wireless Communications, Principles and Practice, Pearson Education