EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013 - 2014
CS 416
MOBILE COMPUTING
(Elective-I)
Instruction 4 Periods per week
Duration of University Examination 3 Hours
University Examination 75 Marks
Sessional 25 Marks
UNIT-I
Introduction and applications of mobile computing, Wireless transmission: Frequencies, Signals, Antennas, Signal Propagation, Multiplexing, Modulation , Spread Spectrum, Cellular systems.
Medium access control, SDMA, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, Comparisons.
UNIT-II
Telecommunication system, GSM, DECT, TETRA, Satellite systems: Applications, Basics, routing, localization, Handover. Broadcast systems: cyclic representation of data, Digital Audio Broadcasting, Digital video broadcasting, convergence of Broadcasting and Mobile Communications.
UNIT-III
Wireless LAN: Infrared Vs Radio transmission, Infrastructure and Adhoc Networks, HYPERLAN, Bluetooth.
UNIT-IV
Mobile IP, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Mobile Adhoc Networks, Mobile Transport Layer, Traditional TCP Classical TCP improvements, TCP over 2.5/3G Wireless Networks, Performance Enhancing Proxies.
UNIT-V
Operating Systems for Mobile Devices: Features of Windows CE, PalmOS, Symbian OS, and Java Card Support for Mobility: Pile systems, WWW, Wireless Application Protocol.
Suggested Reading:
- 1.Schiller, Mobile Communications, 2nd Edition Pearson Education, India, 2003.
- 2.Hansmann, Merk, Nicklous, Stober, Principles of Mobile Computing. 2nd Edition, Springer International Edition, 2003.
- 3.Frank Adelstein, Sandeep K.S. Gupta ”Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing ”,Tata McGraw-Hill 2005.
