Contents

• Unit 1. Mobile computing: Definitions, adaptability issues (transparency, Environmental Constraints, application aware adaptation), mechanisms for adaptation and incorporating adaptations. Mobility management: mobility management, location management principle and techniques, PCS location management Scheme.

   

  Unit 2. Data dissemination and management: challenges, Data dissemination, bandwidth allocation for publishing, broadcast disk scheduling, mobile cache maintenance schemes, Mobile Web Caching. Introduction to mobile middleware.

   

  Unit 3. Middleware for application development: adaptation, Mobile agents. Service Discovery Middleware: Service Discovery & standardization Methods (universally Unique Identifiers, Textual Description & using interfaces), unicast Discovery, Multicast Discovery & advertisement, service catalogs, Garbage Collection, Eventing.

   

  Unit 4. Mobile IP, Mobile TCP, Database systems in mobile environments, World Wide Web and mobility

   

  Unit 5. Ad Hoc networks, localization, MAC issues, Routing protocols, global state routing (GSR), Destination sequenced distance vector routing (DSDV), Dynamic source routing (DSR), Ad Hoc on demand distance vector routing (AODV), Temporary ordered routing algorithm (TORA), QoS in Ad Hoc Networks, applications.