Contents

1. Introduction to Mobile Computing

1.1 What is mobile computing

1.2 Concept and need for mobile computing

1.3 Concepts of mobility and portability

1.4 Mobile and wireless devices

1.5 Applications of mobile computing

1.6 Mobile devices

2. Medium Access Control

2.1 Concepts of access technologies

2.2 Types of medium access controls

2.3 Comparisons among S/T/F/CDMA

2.4 Medium access control services

3. Mobile Communication System

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Telecommunication systems

3.3 Satellite systems

3.4 Broadcast systems

4. Wireless LAN

4.1 Concepts related to wireless LAN

4.2 List of standards applicable in wireless LAN- IEEE 802.11 and hiperlan

4.3 Current technology in wireless security

5. Bluetooth

5.1 Concept of bluetooth access technology

5.2 Basic blocks of bluetooth architecture

5.3 Architecture of bluetooth

5.4 Main reasons to use a bluetooth device

6. AD-HOC Networks

6.1 Concept and examples of AD-HOC network

6.2 Characteristics of AD-HOC network

6.3 Performance issues

6.4 Routing in mobile hosts

6.5 More information of Ad-HOC network

7. Mobile Transport Layer

7.1 Mobile IP–concepts, entities and terminology

7.2 Examples of mobile IP

7.3 IP packet delivery

7.4 DHCP-concept, basic DHCP configuration

7.5 More about transport layer and transaction layer protocol

8. Classical TCP

8.1 Introduction to mobile transport layer

8.2 Indirect TCP

8.3 Snooping TCP

8.4 Mobile TCP

8.5 Transmission/time out freezing

8.6 Selective re-transmission

8.7 Transaction oriented TCP

8.8 Interesting facts about classical TCP

9. Wireless Application Protocol

9.1 Introduction to wireless application protocol

9.2 Architecture of wireless application protocol

9.3 Components and interface of WAP

9.4 Examples of WAP

10. File System

10.1 Concept and characteristics of file system

10.2 Problems in file system related with consistency

10.3 Types of file system

10.4 Traditional file system

10.5 Traditional file system

11. Application Issues

11.1 Application issues

11.2 Synchronization protocol

11.3 Context – aware applications

11.4 Security

11.5 Future application areas in mobile computing

11.6 Analysis of existing wired networks

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