8CS1 MOBILE COMPUTING (Comp. Engg.) |
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| Units | Contents of the subjects |
| Mobile computingMobile computing: Definitions, adaptability issues (transparency, Environmental Constraints, application aware adaptation), mechanisms for adaptation and incorporating adaptations. Mobility management: mobility management, location management principle and techniques, Energy efficient network protocols, PCS location management Scheme, Energy efficient indexing on air and algorithm. | |
| Data dissemination and management: challenges, Data dissemination, bandwidth allocation for publishing, broadcast disk scheduling, mobile cache maintenance schemes, Mobile Web Caching. Introduction to mobile middleware, Middleware for application development: adaptation. Mobile Agents- introduction, mobile agent computing, model, technologies, application to DBMS, Mobile Agent Security and Fault Tolerance using Distributed Transactions, Reliable Agent Transfer, Architecture of a Secure Agent System, Network Security Testing Using Mobile Agents, Network Security Testing Using Mobile Agents. | |
| Service Discovery Middleware: Service Discovery & standardization Methods (Universally Unique Identifiers, Textual Description & using interfaces), unicast Discovery, Multicast Discovery & advertisement, service catalogs, Garbage Collection, Eventing, security. Universal Plug and Play, Jini, Salutation. | |
| Pervasive computing: Introduction, Principles–Decentralization, Diversification, Connectivity, Simplicity, Pervasive Information Technology, Mobile Devices – Classification, Characteristics, Limitations, Smart Identification – Smart Card, Smart Label, Smart Tokens, Smart Sensors and Actuators, Smart Home. | |
| Web Services, Web Service Architecture, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP, Web Service Security, Web Services for Remote Portals. Internet Portals – Functional Overview, Type – B2E Portals, Portal Infrastructure. Standards: DECT, TETRA, UMTS, IMT-2000, IrDA-Architecture & protocol stacks. | |
Text/References:
1. Frank Adelstein, Sandeep Gupta, Golden Richard III, Loren Schwiebert, Fundamentals of
Mobile and Pervasive Computing, TMH.
2. Principles of mobile computing Hansmann & Merk., Springer
3. Mobile communications Jochen Schiller , Pearson
4. 802.11 wireless networks Matthew S.Gast, O’REILLY.