VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering & Technology

IV Year B.Tech CSE- I Sem L T/P/D C 3 0 3

(5IT75)MOBILE COMPUTING

(Elective-I)

(Common to CSE and IT)

Course Objectives:

 Summarize the necessity of wireless communication and the basics of GSM network.
 Understand various wireless MAC Protocols.
 Define the architecture for IEEE802.11, Bluetooth.
 Analyze wired and wireless networks, network and transport layer protocols
 Appraise Data Dissemination Methods for Synchronization.

Course Outcomes:

After completion of the course Students is able to:

 Describe the different wireless communication technologies and understand the protocols used in the
layered architecture of GSM.
 Evaluate different wireless MAC Protocols.
 Design WLAN using IEEE802.11 and Bluetooth
 Compare wired and wireless networks network and transport layer protocols and issues related to
database management in mobile computing.

UNIT-I

Introduction to Mobile Communications and Computing:

Mobile Computing (MC): Introduction to MC, Novel applications, Limitations, and Architecture.

GSM: Mobile services, System architecture, Radio interface, Protocols, Localization and calling, Handover,
Security, and New data services-GPRS.

UNIT-II

(Wireless) Medium Access Control (MAC): Motivation for a Specialized MAC (Hidden and Exposed
Terminals, Near and Far Terminals), SDMA, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA.

UNIT-III

WIRELESS LAN: Infra red Vs radio transmission, Infrastructure and Ad-hoc Network, IEEE 802.11:System
Architecture, Protocol Architecture, Bluetooth : User Scenarios, Architecture. 192
UNIT-IV

Mobile IP Network Layer: Mobile IP (Goals, assumptions, entities and terminology, IP packet delivery,
agent advertisement and discovery, registration, tunneling and encapsulation, optimizations), Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol (DHCP).

Mobile Transport Layer: Traditional TCP, Indirect TCP, Snooping TCP, Mobile TCP, Fast retransmit/fast
recovery, Transmission/ time-out freezing, Selective retransmission, Transaction oriented TCP.

UNIT-V

Database Issues: Hoarding techniques, caching invalidation mechanisms. Data Dissemination:

Communications asymmetry, classification of new data delivery mechanisms, pushes based mechanisms, pull-
based mechanisms, hybrid mechanisms, selective tuning (indexing) techniques.

TEXT BOOKS:

1. Mobile Communications‖, Jochen Schiller, Addison-Wesley, Second Edition, 2004

2. Mobile Computing‖, Raj Kamal, Oxford University Press ,2007

REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Mobile Computing Principles: Designing and Developing Mobile Applications with UML and XML―,
Reza Behravanfar, Cambridge University Press, Oct2004.
2. Mobile and Wireless Design Essentials‖, Martyn Mallick, Wiley DreamTech, 2003.
3. Principles of Mobile Computing‖, Hansmann, Merk, Nicklous, Stober,
4. Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing‖, Stojmenovic and Cacute, Wiley, 2002,