NE7002 MOBILE AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING

NE7002      MOBILE AND PERVASIVE COMPUTING

UNIT I    INTRODUCTION

Differences between Mobile Communication and Mobile Computing – Contexts and Names – Functions – Applications and Services – New Applications – Making Legacy  Applications Mobile Enabled – Design Considerations –  Integration of Wireless and Wired Networks – Standards Bodies – Pervasive Computing – Basics and Vision – Principles of Pervasive Computing – Categories of Pervasive Devices   

UNIT II  3G AND 4G CELLULAR NETWORKS

Migration to 3G Networks – IMT 2000 and UMTS – UMTS Architecture – User Equipment – Radio Network Subsystem – UTRAN – Node B – RNC functions – USIM – Protocol Stack – CS and PS Domains – IMS Architecture – Handover – 3.5G and 3.9G a brief discussion – 4G LAN and Cellular Networks – LTE – Control Plane – NAS and RRC – User Plane – PDCP, RLC and MAC – WiMax IEEE 802.16d/e – WiMax Internetworking with 3GPP 

  

UNIT III           SENSOR AND MESH NETWORKS

Sensor Networks – Role in Pervasive Computing – In Network Processing and Data Dissemination – Sensor Databases – Data Management in Wireless Mobile Environments – Wireless  Mesh Networks – Architecture – Mesh Routers – Mesh Clients – Routing – Cross Layer Approach – Security Aspects of Various Layers in WMN – Applications of Sensor and Mesh networks   

UNIT IV  CONTEXT AWARE COMPUTING   & WEARABLE COMPUTING

Adaptability – Mechanisms for Adaptation -  Functionality and Data – Transcoding – Location Aware Computing – Location Representation – Localization Techniques – Triangulation and Scene Analysis – Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi graphs – Types of Context – Role of Mobile Middleware – Adaptation and Agents – Service Discovery Middleware Health BAN- Medical and Technological Requirements-Wearable Sensors-Intra-BAN communications  

UNIT V            APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

Three tier architecture  - Model View Controller Architecture - Memory Management – Information Access Devices – PDAs and Smart Phones – Smart Cards and Embedded Controls – J2ME – Programming for CLDC – GUI in MIDP – Application Development ON Android and iPhone   

REFERENCES: 

1. Asoke K Talukder, Hasan Ahmed, Roopa R Yavagal, “Mobile Computing: Technology, Applications and Service Creation”, 2nd ed, Tata McGraw Hill, 2010. 

2. Reto Meier, “Professional Android 2 Application Development”, Wrox Wiley,2010. 

3. .Pei Zheng and Lionel M Li, ‘Smart Phone & Next Generation Mobile Computing’, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2006. 

4. Frank Adelstein, ‘Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing’, TMH, 2005 

5. Jochen Burthardt et al, ‘Pervasive Computing: Technology and Architecture of Mobile Internet Applications’, Pearson Education, 2003 

6. Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas, ‘Wireless Sensor Networks’, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2004 

7. Uwe Hansmaan et al, ‘Principles of Mobile Computing’, Springer, 2003 

8. Reto Meier, “Professional Android 2 Application Development”, Wrox Wiley,2010. 

9. Mohammad s. Obaidat et al, “Pervasive Computing and Networking”,John wiley 

10. Stefan Poslad, “Ubiquitous Computing: Smart Devices, Environments and Interactions”, Wiley, 2009 

11. Frank Adelstein Sandeep K. S. Gupta Golden G. Richard III Loren Schwiebert “Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing, “, McGraw-Hill, 2005