ECE607 Mobile Computing L T P C

3 0 0 3
Version: 1.00
Prerequisite: -
Objectives:
To give the students knowledge of wireless systems and networks, basic services and
security aspects.
Expected Outcomes:
On completion of this course the students should be familiar with the specifics of mobile
computing and its applications.
Unit I Introduction to mobile computing
Introduction to mobile computing adaptability, mechanism for adaptability, how to develop or
incorporate adaptations in applications, support for building adaptive mobile applications.
Mobile computing Frameworks and tools.
Unit II Mobile applications
Speech, Mobile agents and peer to peer architectures for mobile applications, Wireless
connectivity and Mobile applications, Synchronization and replication of Mobile Data, Mobility
and Location based services: Context aware computing: Ubiquitous or pervasive computing,
definition and types of contexts, context aware applications.
Unit III Mobile security
Traditional security issues mobile and wireless security issues, mobility, additional types of
attacks, Approaches to security: Limit the signal, encryption, integrity codes, IPSec. Other
security related mechanisms.
Unit IV Mobile development Process
Architecture, Design and Technology selection for Mobile Applications, Mobile Application
development Hurdles, Testing mobile applications
Unit V Case Study
Home Services, Travel and Business services, consumer services.

Textbooks
1. Reza BFar, Mobile Computing Principles and Designing and Developing Mobile
Applications with UML and XML, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Reference Books
2. Frank Adelstein, Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Golden G. Richard III, Loren Schewiebert,
F undamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing Tata McGraw-Hill, 2007.
3. Uwe Hansmann, Lothar Merk, Martin S. Nicklous, Thomas Stober, Principles
of Mobile Computing, Springer International , 2005.
4. Yi Bing Lin, Wireless and Mobile Networks Architecture, John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
5. Tomasz Imielinski et.al, Mobile Computing, Kluwer Academic Press, 1996.
6. Uwe Hansmann, Pervasive Computing Handbook. The Mobile World, IEE publication
2002.
7. Jochen Burkhardt, et.al. Pervasive Computing, Technology and Architecture of Mobile
Internet Applications, Addison Wesley, 2002.

Method of Evaluation: Assignments/Term-end/Projects.

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