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Roll No: (To be filled in by the candidate) PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE - 641 004 SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, MAY 2008

MTech In !"#$%&!n Techn!'!() Se#e*%e"+ 2 06NN24 MOBILE COMP,TING T&#e+ - H!."*

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1. Answer ALL questions from PART - A and Answer any 4 questions from PART . PART - A M$"0* + 10 / 2 1 20

1. A city has an area of 1600 square miles and is covered by a cellular system that uses square cells and has a reuse factor of 5. Each cell has a side length of miles and the city is allocated 50 !"# of s$ectrum %ith channel band%idth of 50 &"# and %ith allocation of 10 control channels $er cell. 'a( )etermine the number of cells in the service area. 'b( )etermine the number of voice channels $er cell 2. *tate the attachment $rocedure follo%ed for a mobile station in +,-* 3. .rief about the use of the gate/ee$er node in 0oice over 1, $rotocol2 . "o% the device roaming in handled in 3),)2 5. 4ist out the consideration to be follo%ed in develo$ing %ireless a$$lications 6. *tate the life cycle of !1), a$$lication2 7. "o% to you com$are the t%o cases5 beacon interval of 200ms and A61! %indo% of 50ms versus beacon interval of 100ms and A61! %indo% of 25ms2 7. 3om$are the overhead introduced by "1,E-4A8 and .luetooth medium access schemes and the resulting $erformance at #ero load9 light load and high load of the medium2 :. ;hy has a scri$ting language been added to ;!42 "o% can this language hel$ saving band%idth and reducing delay2 10. ;hat is the use of a <ile*ystem=b>ect in A*,2

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PART - B

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11. a( 3onsider t%o different cellular systems that share the follo%ing characteristics. 6he frequency bands are 725 to 7 5 !"# for mobile unit transmission and 770 to 7:0 !"# for base station transmission. A du$le? circuit consists of one 30 &"# channel in each direction. 6he systems are distinguished by the reuse factor9 %hich is and 7 res$ectively. *u$$ose that in each of the systems9 the cluster of cells is du$licated 16 times. <ind the number of simultaneous communications that can be su$$orted by each system. ;hat is the area covered9 in cells9 in each system. 'i.e.9 %hat is the total number of cells in the net%or/ for each 8(2 '5( b( E?$lain the inter @.*39 intra@!*3 handover $rocess in the +*! system using ty$ical signals and a message sequence chart. E?$lain the decision $oints and the resource allocation ste$s9 if they e?ist '5( 12. a( 3onsider a mobile node MN from net%or/ X. 6he user of MN %ishes to communicate %ith a corres$onding node CN in net%or/ Y. 6he node MN moves from X to a foreign net%or/ A. )escribe the sequence of messages that are required in !obile 1,v so that MN and CN can continue to communicate. 1nclude both the user data messages and the !obile 1, control messages. 8o%9 consider the case %here CN moves to foreign net%or/ B %hile MN is still in the foreign net%or/ A. 3an CN and MN still communicate2 ')oes !obile 1, su$$ort both end$oints moving2( *ho% the message flo% to indicate ho% it %ill succeed or fail in this case. '5( b( )escribe the layer and the associated $rotocols %hich are used to $rovide security to the mobile users %ho are ca$able of accessing tele$hony and 1nternet content. '5( 13. a( Assume that you have been hired by a ma>or soft%are develo$ment com$any %ith the res$onsibility of redesigning their o$erating system such that an a$$lication $rovides the AbestB service to the user de$ending on the quantity of available resources on a %ireless device. 3om$are and contrast the available o$erating *ystems ,alm =* and ;indo%s 3E. E?$lain the necessary basic considerations and different ty$es of communication mechanisms available on the o$erating systems and the required structuring of a$$lication $rograms to ta/e advantage of the ne% functionalities $rovided by the =* '5( b( Assume you are administering a mobile ).!*. Cour database contains 1: $ages. ,ages1@ are accessed very frequently9 $ages 5@7 are accessed some%hat frequently9 and $ages 7@1: are accessed rarely. )escribe ho% effectively data can be accessed by the mobile devices %ith res$ect to the different techniques available for mobile data access2 '5( 1 . a( An infrastructure net%or/ using a 1 !bDs 1EEE 702.11 has 2 nodes 819 and 82 connecting to an access $oint A,. At time 09 there is no ongoing transmission. At times 10 s9 0s and 60s9 a ne% $ac/et arrives at 819 829 and 819 res$ectively9 to be sent to A,. Assume that the random number generator 'for bac/@off( %ill give the follo%ing values E for 81Fs first $ac/et5 19 2G for 81Fs second $ac/et5 19 3G for 825 19 G assume that the bac/@off counter is used even for the very first transmission attem$t and that if a node does not start receiving an A3& %ithin 2H*1<* time units9 it assumes the transmission is unsuccessful and resumes its bac/@off $rocess. *ho% the e?ecution of the )3< mode of 1EEE 702.11 for the above transmissions. Assume that *1<* is 10s9 )1<* 50s9 and slot time is 20 s. Assume that %e donFt use -6*D36*
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or fragmentation9 and that all data $ac/ets have the same length of 125 bytes and that the A3& $ac/et has length 25 bytes '5( b( Assume that t%o devices A and . have been connected %ith a .luetooth lin/. Cou %ant to su$$ort t%o lin/s bet%een the t%o devices5 a voice channel of 6 &b$s and an asymmetric data channel. Assuming that you %ant to ma?imi#e the data rate in one direction9 identify and e?$lain the $ac/et ty$es you must select for the above /inds of traffic and the data rates on the for%ard and reverse lin/s of the data channel. 6he ma?imum $ayload length in bytes for different $ac/et ty$es are as follo%s5 )!15 179 )"15 279 )!35 1219 )"35 1739 )!55 22 9 )"55 33:9 "015 109 "025 209 "035 309 )05 100I:). Cou may assume that "019 "029 and "03 $ac/ets are transmitted once every t%o slots9 four slots9 and si? slots9 res$ectively '5( 15. a( ;rite a ;!4 $rogram and the associated scri$t file to dis$lay the calendar for the month of 8ovember 2006 '5( b( ;hat is the difference bet%een client side $rocessing and server side $rocessing2 E?$lain %ith neat diagrams. ;rite a $rogramme to call a $rocedure using 0.*cri$t in A*, '5(

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