Syllabus

CS2402       MOBILE AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING

 

UNIT I         MOBILE NETWORKS

Cellular Wireless Networks – GSM – Architecture – Protocols – Connection Establishment – Frequency Allocation – Routing – Mobility Management – Security – GPRS.

 

UNIT II        WIRELESS NETWORKS

Wireless LANs and PANs – IEEE 802.11 Standard – Architecture – Services –Network – HiperLAN – Blue Tooth- Wi-Fi – WiMAX

 

UNIT III       ROUTING

Mobile IP – DHCP – AdHoc– Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocols – Multicast Routing.

 

UNIT IV       TRANSPORT AND APPLICATION LAYERS

Mobile TCP– WAP – Architecture – WWW Programming Model– WDP – WTLS – WTP – WSP – WAE – WTA Architecture – WML – WMLScripts.

 

UNIT V        PERVASIVE COMPUTING

Pervasive computing infrastructure-applications- Device Technology - Hardware, Human-machine Interfaces, Biometrics, and Operating systems– Device Connectivity – Protocols, Security, and Device Management- Pervasive Web Application architecture- Access from PCs and PDAs - Access via WAP

 

TEXT BOOKS

1.    Jochen Schiller, “Mobile Communications”, PHI, Second Edition, 2003.

2.    Jochen Burkhardt, Pervasive Computing: Technology and Architecture of Mobile Internet Applications, Addison-Wesley Professional; 3rd edition, 2007

 

REFERENCES

1.    Frank Adelstein, Sandeep KS Gupta, Golden Richard, Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing, McGraw-Hill 2005

2.    Debashis Saha, Networking Infrastructure for Pervasive Computing: Enabling Technologies, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Springer; First edition, 2002

3.    Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems by Agrawal and Zeng, Brooks/ Cole (Thomson Learning), First edition, 2002

4.    Uwe Hansmann, Lothar Merk, Martin S. Nicklons and Thomas Stober, Principles of Mobile Computing, Springer, New York, 2003.