Unit 1
Wireless Networks – basic routing protocols -– power saving techniques – Disruption tolerant networks – routing – Mobility Service Architecture, Mobility Environment Architecture, Mobile Computing Devices and Features, Design Issues, data types – Challenges in Mobile Computing Adaptive Application in Mobile Environment: Adaptability and Adaption, Adaptability Issues, Mobility Management, Handoff, Location Management Principles and Techniques, Registration Area–Based Location Management, Forwarding Pointers, PCS Location Management Scheme, Energy Efficient Network Protocols, Routing Protocols, Mobile IP, Energy Efficient Indexing.
Unit 2
Data Dissemination and Management: Issues Facing Data Dissemination in a Mobile Environment, Bandwidth Allocation for Publishing, Broadcast Disk Scheduling, Pushbased Data Scheduling, On-demand Data Scheduling, Hybrid Data Scheduling, Caching Management in Mobile, Characteristics of Mobile Cache, Cache Management Schemes, Mobile Web Caching, social aware data forwarding – data dissemination, urban sensing.
Mobile Middleware – Challenges – Categories – Characteristics, Traditional Middleware Applied in Mobile Computing, Mobile Agents, Mobile Agent Architecture, Mobile Agent Security and Fault Tolerance using Distributed Transactions, Reliable Agent Transfer, Architecture of a Secure Agent System, Network Security Testing using Mobile Agents.
