MOBILE COMPUTING

Department: Information Technology Degree: B. Tech

Course code: IT704E Semester: 7 Credits: 3
Course Objective
 Introduction of an advanced level of learning in the field of wireless
communication.
 Develop the concepts of wireless devices and mobile computing.
 Introduce wireless communication and networking principles, that
support connectivity to cellular networks, wireless internet and
sensor devices.
 Understand the use of transaction and e-commerce principles over
such devices to support mobile business concepts.
 Appreciate the social and ethical issues of mobile computing,
including privacy.
Course Outcome
Mobile Computing CO List (1)
 (Remember) Recall different protocols of network for wireless
communication
 (Understand) Explain the concept of Wireless LANs, GPRS, WAP,
the structure and components for Mobile IP and Mobility
Management, WLL, 3G
 (Apply) Make use of the knowledge to administrate and to maintain
a Wireless LAN, develop applications like server-side
programming, web application, device independent applications
 (Analyse) Discover important issues and concerns on quality of
services, IRIDIUM and GLOBALSTAR systems
 (Evaluate) Perceive wireless network topologies, wireless
connectivity and characteristics, and the impact of wireless
networks on security and Internet communications
Course Outcome
Course Outcomes: (2)
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able
to:
 CO1. Describe personal communication services, their
architecture, and signaling and mobility management.
 CO2. Compare and contrast between different packet
radio service and their architecture, GPS, GPRS
 CO3 Analyze and characterize Location management in wireless
mobile networks and mobile IP
 CO4. Learn wireless application protocol, wireless local
loop, IEEE standard of wireless LAN.
 CO5. Distinguish pros and cons of different third
generation mobile service.
 CO6. Learn different global mobile satellite system,
virtual network and blue tooth technology
Program Outcome
 PO1 : Apply knowledge of science, mathematical tools and concepts and
modern software tools for understanding and solving emerging problems in
the domain of information technology.
 PO2 : Identify, comprehend, analyze intricate information engineering
problems, interpret large volumes of data and arrive at plausible and
effective solutions.
 PO3 : Modularize a complex problem, analyze the correlations between sub
problems, design the components and the integrated system in order to
meet the ultimate requirement that achieves maintainability, scalability,
portability, sustainability taking into account the social, environmental,
economic, legal, health and safety aspects.
 PO4 : Delve into complex problems in information processing and apply
research procedures to explore possible solutions to the problems.
Program Outcome
 PO5 : Develop expertise in modern tools used in analysis and design of
information systems that enables thorough understanding of complicated
problems and constraints of resources.
 PO6 :Recognize the correlation between information engineering practices
and need of their applications for the service of the society keeping in
view the safety, cultural, legal, and economic and health aspects.
 PO7 : Understand the applications of professional know-how as a service
to the society and environment to usher in over all sustainability.
 PO8 : Appreciate professional ethics and their importance in professional
practices.
 PO9 : Develop individual capabilities in problem solving and
communicate with peers, work as a team member or leader to help in
achieving a common target.
 PO10 : Develop communication skills to interact with clients, peers and
other societal stakeholders in the form of comprehending requirement
documents, demonstration of models and prototypes, make technical
reports and presentations, understand and deliver instructions.
Program Outcome
 PO11 : Develop managerial and project development proficiencies and apply them in
one’s own tasks and task as a team member or leader.
 PO12 : Appreciate the susceptibility of technology towards obsolescence and change
in the needs of the society and hence adopt practices of independent and perennial
learning.
Course PO

CO PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12

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CO3 3 2 2 2 - - - - - - - -
CO4 3 2 2 2 - - - - - - - -
CO5 3 2 2 2 - - - - - - - -
CO6 3 2 2 2 - - - - - - - -
Books
 “Pervasive Computing”, Burkhardt, Pearson
 “Mobile Communication”, J. Schiller, Pearson
 “The Wireless Application Protocol”, Sandeep Singhal,
Pearson
 “Third Generation Mobile Telecommunication systems”,
by P. Stavronlakis, Springer Publishers
 Day-1
Introduction to Wireless Network
and Mobile Computing
Topics
 What is network
 Why required
 Computer network
 Types of Wired network
 LAN WAN MAN
 Why Wireless Network
Computer Network:
 A network consists of two or more computers that are
linked in order to share resources, exchange files, or
allow electronic communications.
 The computers on a network may be linked through
cables, telephone lines, radio waves, satellites, or
infrared light beams
Need of Computer Network:
 File sharing

 Resource sharing

 Communication and collaboration

 Remote access

 Data protection
Types Of Network:
 Local Area Network
 Wide Area Network
 Metropolitan Area Network
Local Area Network:
 A local area network (LAN) is a group of
computers and associated devices that
share a common communications line or
wireless link.
 Typically, connected devices share the
resources of a single processor or server
within a small geographic area .
 . A local area network may serve as few as
two or three users or as many as
thousands of users.
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Wide Area Network:
 The WAN is a communications network that
makes use of existing technology to connect
local computer networks into a larger working
network that may cover both national and
international locations.

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Metropolitan Area Network (MAN):
 A metropolitan area network (MAN) is a
network that interconnects users with computer
resources in a geographic area or region larger
than that covered by even a large local area
network but smaller than the area covered by a
wide area network (WAN).
 It is also used to mean the interconnection of
several local area networks by bridging them
with backbone lines

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 BASIS LAN MAN WAN
Full Form Local Area Network Metropolitan Area Wide Area Network
Network
Range A communication network This network shares the A communication network
linking a number of stations in characteristics of packet distinguished from a Local
same local area. Range is 1 broadcasting networks. Area Network. Range is
to 10 km Range is100 km Beyond 100 km

Media Used Uses guided media Uses guided as well as Uses unguided media
unguided media
Speed A high speed i.e. 100kbps to Optimized for a large Long distance
100mbps geographical area than communications, which may or
LAN. may not be provided by public
packet network.

Cost cheaper costly expensive

Equipment NIC, switch and hub Modem and router Microwave, radio, infra-red
needed laser
protocols Attached Resource computer Frame relay and ATM, FDDI, SMDS
network (ARCNET), Token asynchronous transfer
ring mode(ATM)
Evolution of Wireless LAN
 In late 1980s, vendors started offering wireless products,
which were to substitute the traditional wired LAN (Local
Area Network) products.
 The idea was to use a wireless local area network to
avoid the cost of installing LAN cabling and ease the
task of relocation or otherwise modifying the network's
structure.
• The question of interoperability between different
wireless LAN products became critical.
• IEEE standard committee took the responsibility to form
the standard for WLAN.
• As a result IEEE 802.11 series of standards emerged.
Evolution of Wireless LAN
 WLAN uses the unlicensed Industrial, Scientific, and
Medical (ISM) band that different products can use as
long as they comply with certain regulatory rules
 WLAN is also known as Wireless Fidelity or WiFi in
short
 There are many products which use these unlicensed
bands along with WLAN.
Evolution of Wireless LAN
 Examples could be cordless telephone, microwave oven
etc.
 There are 3 bands within the ISM bands.
 These are 900-MHz ISM band, which ranges from 902
to 928 MHz;
 2.4-GHz ISM band, which ranges from 2.4 to 2.4853
GHz; and
 the 5.4 GHz band, which range from 5.275 to 5.85 GHz.
 WLAN uses 2.4 GHz and 5.4 GHz bands.
 WLAN works both in infrastructure mode and ad hoc
mode
Evolution of Wireless PAN
 Techniques for WPANs are infrared and radio waves.
 Most of the Laptop computers support communication
through infrared, for which standards have been formulated
by IrDA (Infrared Data Association-www.irda.org).
 Through WPAN, a PC can communicate with another IrDA
device like another PC or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
or a Cellular phone.
 The other best known PAN technology standard is Bluetooth.
 Bluetooth uses radio instead of infrared.
 It offers a peak over the air speed of about 1 Mbps over a
short range of about 10 meters.
 The advantage of radio wave is that unlike infrared it does not
need a line of sight.
 WPAN works in adhoc mode only
Mobile Computing
 Mobile computing can be defined as a computing
environment over physical mobility.
 The user of a mobile computing environment will be
able to access data, information or other logical objects
from any device in any network while on the move.
 Mobile computing system allows a user to perform a
task from anywhere using a computing device in the
public (the Web), corporate (business information) and
personal information spaces (medical record, address
book).
Mobile Computing
 Mobile computing is used in different contexts
with different names. The most common names
are:
◦ Mobile Computing:
 The computing environment is mobile and moves along with
the user.
 This is similar to the telephone number of a GSM (Global
System for Mobile communication) phone, which moves with
the phone.
 The offline (local) and real-time (remote) computing
environment will move with the user.
 In real-time mode user will be able to use all his remote data
and services online.
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