MOBILE COMPUTING EEM 825/ PEE411 Credits:4

Syllabus
Unit I
Introduction What is mobile computing?, Comparison to wired networks, Why go mobile?, Type of Wireless Communication Networks, Types of wireless devices, Mobile objects, Moving object databases (MOD), Issues in Mobile Computing, Applications of mobile computing, Challenges, Future of mobile computing.

Overview of Wireless Telephony

Introduction to Cellular Mobile Systems: Basic cellular system, operation of cellular systems, Air Interface, Channel Structure, Channel assignment, Location management: HLR, VLR.

Unit II
Mobility Management in Cellular Mobile Systems: Cellular architecture, Co-channel interference, Mobility: handoff, types of handoffs; location management, HLR-VLR scheme, hierarchical scheme, predictive location management schemes. Generations of Telecommunication Systems : GSM: Mobile services, System Architecture, Radio, interface, Protocols, Localization and Calling, Handover, Security, New data services, GSM, Short Message Service, VOIP service for Mobile Networks, GPRS Third-Generation Systems : W-CDMA and cdma2000; Improvements on Core Network; Quality of Service in 3G, Wireless Local Loop: Wireless Local Loop Architecture; Deployment Issues; TR-45 Service Description; Wireless Local Loop Technologies. TETRA, UMTS, and IMT-2000: UMTS Basic Architecture, UTRA FDD mode, UTRA TDD mode.

Unit III
Wireless LAN: Infrared vs. Radio transmission, Infrastructure and Ad hoc Networks, IEEE 802.11: System architecture, Protocol architecture, Physical layer, Medium Access Control layer, MAC management, Future development; HIPERLAN: Protocol architecture, Physical layer, Channel access control sublayer, Medium Access Control sublayer, Information bases and Networking. Bluetooth, Wireless Broadband (WiMax)

Unit IV
Mobile Network Layer Mobile IP: Goals, assumptions and requirements, Entities and Terminology, IP packet delivery, Agent advertisement and discovery, Registration, Tunnelling and Encapsulation, Optimizations, Reverse

tunnelling, Ipv6; Dynamic host configuration protocol, Ad hoc networks MANET: Routing, Destination sequence distance vector, Dynamic source routing, Hierarchical algorithms, Alternative metrics. Mobile Transport Layer: Traditional TCP: Congestion control, Slow start, Fast retransmit/fast recovery, Implications on mobility; Indirect TCP, Snooping TCP, Mobile TCP, Fast retransmit/fast recovery, Transmission/time-out freezing, Selective retransmission, Transaction oriented TCP.

Unit V
Mobile Computing Architecture: Three Tier Architecture for mobile computing, Design considerations, Mobile Computing through Internet. File System Support for Mobility: Distributed file sharing for mobility support, Coda and other storage manager for mobility support Language Support, Wireless application protocol, Mobile agents, security and fault tolerance, Service Discovery, Device Management, Wireless devices and their Operating System : PalmOS; Windows CE; Android, Symbian OS; Linux for Mobile Devices. Reference Books: 1. Jochen Schiller, "Mobile communications", Addison wisely, Pearson Education 2. William C. Y. Lee, Mobile Cellular Telecommunications, TMH 3. Wireless and Mobile Network Architecture : Yi Bang Lin and Imrich Chlamtech (Wiley). 4. RajKamal, Mobile Computing, Oxford Press. 5. Rappaort, "Wireless Communications Principals and Practices'. 6. YI Bing Lin, "Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures', John Wiley. 7. Uwe Hansmann, Lothar Merk, Martin S. Nicklous, Thomas Stober, Principles of Mobile Computing, Springer

MOBILE COMPUTING EEM825 Question Bank

UNIT-I
1. Define mobile computing. Explain various issues pertaining to Mobile Computing. 2. What are the major goals of Mobile computing? 3. What is ubiquitous computing? 4. Explain the different mobility scenarios. 5. What are the limitations of the mobile computing? 6. Briefly explain security issues in mobile computing. 7. What are the network issues in mobile computing? 8. Briefly explain the effect of mobility on the protocol stack. 9. Compare and contrast wired and wireless communication. 10. Give a brief overview of the available wireless communication technologies. 11. Explain the following terms with respect to mobile computing applications a)Location aware b)Context aware c)Device aware 12. Explain the various applications of Mobile computing. 13. Briefly explain the expected future of Mobile Computing. 14. What is Cellular Network? Explain how cellular concept works in mobile environment? 15. What are the advantages and disadvantages of cellular concept? 16. Explain how cellular concept enhances system capacity? 17. List and elucidate the basic components of a cellular mobile telecommunication network. 18. Why hexagonal cell shape is normally used in cellular system design? In spite of the fact that hexagonal cell shape is desirable why irregular cell shapes are considered? 19. With reference to a cellular system explain the following i) Cluster and how it is formed ii) Adjacent channel iii) Co-channel iv) frequency reuse v) Signal-to-interference ratio 20. What is frequency reuse ratio? Derive the relationship between the frequency reuse ratio and Signal -to-interference ratio. 21. A bandwidth of 40 MHz is assigned to a cellular mobile network. The system uses two simplex channels of 20 KHz to provide full duplex voice and control channels. Calculate the number of channels assigned per cell for a cluster of size 12. 22. A cellular system has 2023 duplex channels to cover 1925 sq. km and the size of each cell is 5 sq. km. If a 7 cell reuse system is used then calculate the system capacity.

23. A certain city has an area of 1300 square miles and is covered by a cellular system using a seven cell reuse pattern. Each cell has a radius of 4 miles and the city has 40 MHz spectrum with a full duplex channel bandwidth of 60KHz. Find: (i)The number of cells in the service area. (ii) The number of channels per cell. (iii) Total number of subscribers that can be served.

UNIT-II
24. What are the main issues in mobility management? 25. What is cell handoff. Classify and briefly explain the different types of handoffs used in mobile cellular communications. 26. Give an overview of the different generations of Mobile Communication systems. 27. Compare TDMA, CDMA and FDMA. 28. Draw the GSM system Architecture. Explain the functions of each module. 29. Specify the security services offered by GSM. 30. Explain High Speed Circuit switched Data (HSCSD). 31. Describe briefly the different types of logical channels used in GSM. 32. Give an overview of GSM Protocol Stack. 33. What is channel allocation? 34. What is General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).Describe its architecture in detail. 35. Explain the working of CDMA. 36. Why are open loop and closed loop power control essential in UMTS? 37. Describe the UMTS architecture and explain the functions of different functional blocks. 38. Describe the service types supported in UMTS. As compared to GSM, mention the additional services provided in UMTS in each service type. 39. Briefly explain mobility management in UMTS. 40. Give an overview of UMTS Protocol Stack of packet-switching domain.

UNIT-III
41. What are the advantages and disadvantages of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network).Under what situation is a wireless LAN desirable over LAN. 42. Describe the basic transmission technologies that can be used to set up WLAN. 43. With a focus on security what are the problems of WLANs? What level of security can WLANs provide? What is needed additionally and how far do the standards go? 44. What are IEEE8O2.lla, 802.llb, 802.11g. and 802.11n? 45. Describe the system architecture of IEEE 802.11.

46. Describe the protocol architecture of IEEE 802.11 with suitable diagram. 47. How the fairness problem regarding channel access solved in IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN and Bluetooth respectively ? 48. What is the difference between infrastructure and ad-hoc networks? 49. What is Bluetooth? Explain the architecture of Bluetooth. 50. How do IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN and Bluetooth, respective solve the hidden terminal problem? 51. What is WiMax? Explain the architecture of WIMAX in detail. 52. Compare IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN, WiMax (802.16) and Bluetooth 53. How does Ad Hoc WLAN work? 54. How are mobility and handoff managed in WLAN? 55. Explain the MAC layer in IEEE802.11 56. What is MAC Management? 57. Write short note on multiple access protocols for WLAN. UNIT-IV 58. What is Mobile IP? Explain the requirements of Mobile IP. 59. Briefly explain how Mobile IP Works with reference to the three sub- processes, Agent discovery, Registration and Tunneling. 60. Explain the architecture of a typical Mobile IP. 61. Describe the agent discovery and registration in mobile IP. 62. Explain how tunneling works for Mobile IP using IP-in-IP encapsulation. 63. What are Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) and Minimal Encapsulation? Explain the need for these encapsulations. 64. What are the general problems of mobile IP regarding security and support for quality of service. 65. What advantages does the use of IPv6 offer for mobility? Where are the entities of Mobile IP then? 66. What is the basic purpose of DHCP? Name the entities of DHCP. 67. What is a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET)? Describe some real life scenarios where it is used? 68. Why is routing in MANETs complicated? What are the challenges? 69. Describe any two of the following types of routing in MANETs i. Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV) ii. Dynamic State Routing (DSR) iii. Global State Routing (GSR) iv. Fisheye State Routing (FSR)

70. Explain the following: Snooping TCP and Indirect TCP. 71. Give an overview of classical enhancements to TCP for mobility. 72. What are the configuration parameters to adapt TCP to wireless environments?

UNIT-V
73. Sketch the three-tier architecture of Mobile computing. Explain the functions of each tier. 74. Briefly explain the design considerations for Mobile Computing. 75. What do you mean by WAP? Describe the WAP protocol stack. What are the functions of different layers in this protocol stack? 76. What is WML? What are the features of WML? 77. What are the data management issues in mobile computing? 78. Why is data replication needed in mobile computing environment? Explain the different data replication schemes used for this purpose. 79. Discuss the impact of mobile computing on following aspects of data management: (i) Transactions. (ii) Data Dissemination. (iii) Query Processing. 80. How Asynchronous and Synchronous replication work? 81. What is multicluster architecture? Discuss any one strategy or algorithm required to partition the network into several clusters. 82. What is clustering? Discuss the adaptive clustering for mobile wireless networks. 83. Briefly Explain CODA file system. How is CODA file system different from other distributed file systems? 84. Discuss the security in CODA. Also explain the features of CODA. 85. What are Mobile agents? Explain their utility in Mobile computing. 86. Give a brief overview of any one of the following Operating Systems for mobile devices: a. Android b. Windows CE