IT408 Mobile Computing

Mekelle Institute of Technology

Seyoum T.

Course Outline
Course Objective Wireless Communication and Mobile Applications are recent paradigms in communications and computing. This course will provide an introduction and overview of communication alternatives for mobile applications, focusing on mobility-related aspects of higher-level protocols, and examines the infrastructure, available services, and application paradigms for mobile applications. 1 Wireless Transmission Basics 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Overview of technologies for wireless communication 1.3 Medium access control 1.4 Multiplexing 2 Wireless LAN 2.1 Introduction to wireless LAN 2.2 Personal Area Networks: Bluetooth 2.3 Wireless LAN: WiFi 2.4 High-Speed Wireless Networks: HiperLan 3 Mobile Network Layers 3.1 Internet Protocols 3.2 Mobile IP 3.3 Addressing and Routing 4 Mobile Transport Layers 4.1 Traditional TCP 4.2 TCP over wireless links 4.3 TCP and mobility 4.4 Indirect TCP 5 Wireless Application Protocol 5.1 Origin of WAP 5.2 WAP Architecture 5.3 Network Infrastructure services supporting WAP clients 6 Implementing WAP Services 6.1 Wireless Markup Languages 6.2 WML basics 6.3 Events, task, bindings, variable controls 6.4 WML Scripts 7 Introduction to NS2[Subject to the availability of time] References 1. Mobile Communications, 2nd edition, by Jochen Schiller 2. The Wireless Application Protocol, by Sandeep Singhal 3. Additional materials to be uploaded in the course page [Moodle]

Course Evaluation
Assignments: Pop Quizzes: Project: Mid: Final: 10% 10% 10% 30% 40%

Semester II, 2011