JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD 
IV Year B.Tech. CSE -I Sem T P C 
4+1* 0 4 
MOBILE COMPUTING 
(Elective - I) 

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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. 

UNIT - II 

(Wireless) Medium Access Control : Motivation for a specialized MAC (Hidden and exposed terminals, Near and far terminals), SDMA, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA. 

UNIT - III 

Mobile 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). 

UNIT - IV 

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, client server computing with adaptation, power-aware and context-aware computing, transactional models, query processing, recovery, and quality of service issues. 

UNIT - VI 

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

UNIT - VII 

Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs): Overview, Properties of a MANET, spectrum of MANET applications, routing and various routing algorithms, security in MANETs. 

UNIT - VIII 

Protocols and Tools : Wireless Application Protocol-WAP. (Introduction, protocol architecture, and treatment of protocols of all layers), Bluetooth (User scenarios, physical layer, MAC layer, networking, security, link management) and J2ME. 

TEXT BOOKS : 

1. 1. Jochen Schiller,“Mobile Communications”,Addison-Wesley. (Chapters 4,7,9,10,11),second edition, 2004. 
2. Stojmenovic and Cacute, “Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing”, Wiley, 2002, ISBN 0471419028. (Chapters 11, 15, 17, 26 and 27) 

REFERENCES : 

1. Reza Behravanfar, “Mobile Computing Principles: Designing and Developing Mobile Applications with UML and XML”, ISBN: 0521817331, Cambridge University Press, October 2004, 
2. Adelstein, Frank, Gupta, Sandeep KS, Richard III, Golden , Schwiebert, Loren, “Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing”, ISBN: 0071412379, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005. 
3. Hansmann, Merk, Nicklous, Stober, “Principles of Mobile Computing”, Springer, second edition, 2003. 
4. Martyn Mallick, “Mobile and Wireless Design Essentials”, Wiley DreamTech, 2003.