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NPTEL Syllabus

Mobile Computing - Web course COURSE OUTLINE A first level course on issues in Mobile Computing. It introduces basic terminology, fundamental concepts, principles behind design of distributed applications which can run on mobile devices and mobility by leveraging wireless communications. Location of mobile devices, judicious use of bandwidth, relocation of computation, are some of the key issues which will constitute the topics for further exploration. Apart from mobility management and data management, the students will also be exposed to theoretical concepts behind computing with mobile portable devices such as computational models for mobile environment, algorithms for mobile environment, termination detection of distributed algorithms executing on mobile devices, etc. The course would be a mix of approximately 50% wireless networks related material with 50% theory and application related topics.

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Computer Science and Engineering Pre-requisites: Computer Networks.

Contents: Introduction to mobile computing highlighting requirements for design of mobile applications. Computational model and distributed algorithms for mobile environment. Mobility management including handoff, location management and IP mobility Cellular wireless communication, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, MAC protocols. Wireless LAN, Personal Area Wireless Network: Bluetooth, and zigbee. A hoc and sensor networks. Data delivery models, broadcast disks, and application of caching for speeding up data dissemination and delivery. Distributed file system and indexing techniques for mobile environment. Mobile Agent System.

Additional Reading: Literature on Mobile Computing and Wireless Communication in leading professional journals and refereed conferences. Hyperlinks: 1. Http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/s/cs634 Coordinators: Prof. R.K. Ghosh Department of Computer Science and EngineeringIIT Kanpur

COURSE DETAIL

Sl.No.

Topics

No.of Hours

1

Introduction to mobile computing. Convergence of Internet, digital communication and computer networks. Sharing of wireless channels: FDMA, TDMA, CDMA. MAC layer issues in wireless communication.

3

2

Impacts of mobility and portability in computational model and algorithms for mobile environment. Disconnected operation, handling handoffs. Analysis of algorithms and termination detection.

8

3

Types of Mobility. Mobility in cellular based wireless network: channel allocation, interferences, handoffs and location management. IP mobility: Mobile IP and

6

IDMP

4

Wireless LAN, Personal Area Network: Bluetooth and ZigBee. Network layer issues ad hoc and sensor networks

8

5

Data delivery models: push and pull. Data dissemination in wireless channels. Broadcast disks. Effects of caching.

3

6

Indexing in Air, Mobile Databases and transaction

2

7

Distributed file system for mobile environment

5

8

Mobile agents

5

References: 1. T. Rappaport, "Wireless Communication: Principles and Practice", Pearson Education. 2. Paolo Bellavista and Antonio Corradi (Eds.), "Handbook of Mobile Middleware", Auerbach Publication. 3. Reza B'Far (Ed), "Mobile Computing Principles", Cambridge University Press. A t venture by IISc and IITs, funded by MHRD, Govt of India

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