Code No: N0504 Set No.

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009

MOBILE COMPUTING
(Common to Computer Science &Engineering, Information Technology,
Electronics &Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answers any Five Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. (a) Explain the architecture of Mobile computing. [8]
(b) Explain about Localization and calling in GSM. [8]

2. (a) Explain polling and inhibit sense multiple access. [6]

(b) Explain SDM and SDMA in detail. [10]

3. (a) What are the requirements for a mobile IP? Explain them. [6]
(b) Write detailed notes on IP encapsulation mechanisms. [10]

4. (a) Explain mobile-TCP and also write its advantages and disadvantages. [8]
(b) Explain selective Retransmission and Transaction oriented TCP techniques. [8]

5. (a) Write about the client server computing with adaptation. [8]
(b) Explain the following concepts in mobile environment. [8]
(i) Data cache maintenance
(ii) Web cache maintenance

6. Explain the following selective tuning techniques: [16]

(i) Temporal Addressing
(ii) Broadcast Addressing
(iii) Index based method
(iv) Distributed index based method

7. (a) Explain the applications mobile Ad-hoc networks. [6]

(b) Explain Dynamic source routing in MANETs? [10]

8. (a) Define WAP and briefly explain about the features and characteristics of WAP.
[8]
(b) Explain in detail about wireless application environment (WAE) logical model.
[8]

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Code No: N0504 Set No. 2

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009

MOBILE COMPUTING
(Common to Computer Science &Engineering, Information Technology,
Electronics &Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answers any Five Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. (a) Explain the applications and limitations of mobile computing. [8]
(b) Explain GSM system architecture. [6]

2. Compare the following four medium access systems. [16]

(i) SDMA (ii) TDMA (iii) FDMA (iv) CDMA

3. (a) Explain the entities of mobile IP. [8]

(b) Describe Data transfer from a mobile node to a fixed node and vice versa. [8]

4. (a) Write detailed notes on Fast retransmit/fast recovery of Mobile transport

layer. [8]
(b) Explain Transmission/ Time-out freezing approach. [8]

5. (a) Explain power-aware computing. [8]

(b) Explain the following cache invalidation mechanisms. [8]
(i) State less Asynchronous (ii) Stateful synchronous

6. Explain data delivery methods in detail. [16]

7. (a) Explain in detail, properties of MANET. [8]

(b) Describe security problems in MANETs. [8]

8. (a) Explain the architecture of WAP. [10]

(b) Explain briefly about the wireless Datagram protocol (WDP) of transport layer.
[6]

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 Code No: N0504 Set No. 3

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009

MOBILE COMPUTING
(Common to Computer Science &Engineering, Information Technology,
Electronics &Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answers any Five Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. (a) Explain the architecture of mobile computing. [8]
(b) Explain the following. [8]
(i) Handover in GSM (ii) Security services in GSM.

2. (a) What is CDMA? Explain in detail. [8]

(b) Explain the following problems of wireless transmission.
(i) Exposed Terminal (ii) Hidden Terminal (iii) Near and far Terminal [8]

3. (a) What is IP packet delivery? Explain it. [8]

(b) What is the main purpose of registration of a mobile node? Explain in detail. [8]

4. (a) Write the differences between TCP and UDP. [6]

(b) Explain Indirect-TCP. What are its advantages and disadvantages? [10]

5. (a) Explain the following cache invalidation mechanisms. [8]

(i) Stateful Asynchronous (ii) Stateless synchronous
(b) List and explain the context types in context-aware computing. [8]

6. (a) Explain push based data delivery mechanisms in detail. [8]

(b) Explain the following selective tuning techniques: [8]
(i) Directory method. (ii) Hash based method.

7. (a) Explain routing complications in mobile Ad-hoc networks. [8]

(b) Describe the working of mobile Ad-hoc networks. [8]

8. (a) Explain the MAC layer of Bluetooth. [8]

(b) Explain about the wireless application environment. [8]

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 Code No: N0504 Set No. 4

IV B.Tech I Semester Regular Examinations, November 2009

MOBILE COMPUTING
(Common to Computer Science &Engineering, Information Technology,
Electronics &Computer Engineering)
Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80
Answers any Five Questions
All Questions carry equal marks
*****
1. (a) Explain the protocol of GSM. [8]
(b) Explain in detail about GSM services. [8]

2. (a) Explain how multiple Access with collision Avoidance(MACA) can avoid hidden
terminals and exposed terminals problems. [8]
(b) Explain TDMA and its features. [8]

3. (a) What is the purpose of DHCP? Explain client initialization via DHCP. [8]
(b) Discuss about agent advertisement and delivery. [8]

4. (a) Explain the concept of Fast Retransmit/Fast Recovery in traditional TCP. [8]
(b) Explain snooping TCP. What are its advantages and disadvantages? [8]

5. (a) Explain in detail about context aware computing. [10]

(b) Explain the issues relating to Quality off service in mobile networks. [6]

6. (a) Explain communication asymmetry with the help of diagrams. [8]

(b) Explain interleaved push-pull based data delivery mechanism. [8]

7. (a) Write detailed notes on mobile Ad-hoc networks? [8]

(b) Explain Destination sequence distance vector routing algorithm in MANETs. [8]

8. (a) Explain different user scenarios of Bluetooth. [6]

(b) Explain wireless session protocol (WSP) of the session layer [10]

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