NPTEL Syllabus

Mobile Computing - Web course

COURSE OUTLINE

A first level course on issues in Mobile Computing. It introduces basic

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terminology, fundamental concepts, principles behind design of distributed
applications which can run on mobile devices and support user mobility by
leveraging wireless communications.

Location of mobile devices, judicious use of bandwidth, relocation of

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computation, are some of the key issues which will constitute the topics for
further exploration.
Computer Science and
Apart from mobility management and data management, the students will
also be exposed to theoretical concepts behind computing with mobile Engineering
portable devices such as computational models for mobile environment,
algorithms for mobile environment, termination detection of distributed
algorithms executing on mobile devices, etc.
Pre-requisites:
The course would be a mix of approximately 50% wireless networks related
material with 50% theory and application related topics.
Computer Networks.
Contents:
Additional Reading:
Introduction to mobile computing highlighting requirements for design of
mobile applications. Computational model and distributed algorithms for
Literature on Mobile Computing and
mobile environment. Mobility management including handoff, location
management and IP mobility Wireless Communication in leading
professional journals and refereed
Cellular wireless communication, FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, MAC protocols. conferences.
Wireless LAN, Personal Area Wireless Network: Bluetooth, and zigbee. A
hoc and sensor networks. Hyperlinks:
Data delivery models, broadcast disks, and application of caching for
1. Http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/cs634
speeding up data dissemination and delivery. Distributed file system and
indexing techniques for mobile environment. Mobile Agent System.
Coordinators:

COURSE DETAIL Prof. R.K. Ghosh

Department of Computer Science and
EngineeringIIT Kanpur
Sl.No. Topics No.of Hours

1 Introduction to mobile computing. 3

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

2 Impacts of mobility and portability in 8

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

3 Types of Mobility. Mobility in cellular based 6

wireless network: channel allocation,
interferences, handoffs and location
management. IP mobility: Mobile IP and
 IDMP

4 Wireless LAN, Personal Area Network: 8

Bluetooth and ZigBee. Network layer issues
ad hoc and sensor networks

5 Data delivery models: push and pull. Data 3

dissemination in wireless channels.
Broadcast disks. Effects of caching.

6 Indexing in Air, Mobile Databases and 2

transaction

7 Distributed file system for mobile 5

environment

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.

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