Mobile Computing (CSC603)
University of Mumbai, T.E. (Computer Engineering),VI sem (R-2019
'C' Scheme)
Department of Computer Engineering
Course Outcomes:
1 The students should be able to develop and demonstrate mobile applications
using various tools.
2 The students should be able to articulate the knowledge of GSM, CDMA &
Bluetooth technologies and demonstrate it
3 The students should be able to carry out simulation of frequency reuse,
hidden/exposed terminal problem
4 The students should be able to implement security algorithms for mobile
communication network
5 The students should be able to demonstrate simulation and compare the
performance of Wireless LAN
6 The students should be able to describe Long Term Evolution (LTE)
architecture and its interfaces.
User mobility refers to as users who have access to similar communication services
at different places.
Example:
User can have a mobile and he can login to his mail account from any desktop to
check or compose emails.
Device portability refers to the movement of a communication device with or without a
user.
Device Portability:
The communication device moves (with or without the user)
Example:
A mobile phone system which is a mechanism presents either within the device
system or within the network handover the control from one transmitter to another if
the signal is weak.
In order to achieve device portability we may have to use another mechanism called
wireless.
The term wireless refers to accessing a network as a communication media without
the use of a wire i.e communication takes place in the form of electromagnetic waves.
Applications of Wireless networks:
Vehicles
- transmission of news, road condition, weather, music/video via DAB+/DVB-T2/LTE
- personal communication using GSM/UMTS/LTE
- positioning via GPS/Galileo/Glonass/Beidou
- local ad-hoc network with vehicles close-by to prevent accidents, guidance system,
redundancy
- vehicle data (e.g., from busses, high-speed trains) can be transmitted in advance for
maintenance
Emergencies
- early transmission of patient data to the hospital, current status, first diagnosis
- Wireless networks are the only means of communication in case of natural disasters
such as earthquakes.
Typical application: road traffic
UMTS, WLAN, o c
DAB+, LTE, GSM, h
cdma2000, TETRA, ... ad
Smartphone,
Laptop, Tablet, LTE,
GSM, UMTS, WLAN,
Bluetooth, NFC ...
Mobile and wireless services – Always Best Connected
LTE LAN
DSL/ GSM/GPRS 53 kbit/s 10 Mbit/s 1 Gbit/s,
WLAN Bluetooth 500 kbit/s WLAN
50 Mbit/s 300 Mbit/s
UMTS
2 Mbit/s
GSM/EDGE 384 kbit/s,
DSL/WLAN 6 Mbit/s
UMTS, GSM
GSM 115 kbit/s, 384 kbit/s
WLAN 11 Mbit/s
Location dependent services
Location aware services
In many cases it is important for an application to know location information for further
activities
- what services, e.g., printer, phone, server etc. exist in the local environment
Several services that may depend on actual loation can be distinguished as
1. Follow-on services
- automatic call-forwarding, transmission of the actual workspace to the current
location
2. Information services
- “push”: e.g., current special offers in the supermarket
- “pull”: e.g., where is the Black Forrest Cheese Cake?
3 Support services
- caches, intermediate results, state information etc. “follow” the mobile device through
the fixed network
4. Privacy
- who should gain knowledge about the location
