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Unit-I
Introduction 10 hrs

Issues in mobile computing, overview of wireless telephony: cellular concept,
GSM: air-interface, channel structure, location management: HLR-VLR,
hierarchical, handoffs, Channel allocation in cellular systems

Unit II
Mobile Network & Transport Layer 12 hrs

Mobile IP Goals, assumptions, entities and terminology, IP packet delivery, agent
advertisement and discovery, registration, tunnelling and encapsulation, Dynamic
Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Traditional TCP, Indirect TCP, Snooping
TCP, Mobile TCP, Fast retransmit/fast recovery, Transmission /time-out
freezing, Selective retransmission, Transaction oriented TCP.

Unit III
Wireless Networking 10 hrs

Wireless LAN Overview: MAC issues, IEEE 802.11, Blue Tooth, Wireless
multiple access protocols, TCP over wireless, Wireless applications, data
broadcasting, Mobile IP, WAP: Architecture, protocol stack, application
environment, applications.

Unit IV
Mobile Ad hoc Networks 10 hrs

Mobile Agents computing, security and fault tolerance, transaction processing in
mobile computing environment, Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs):
Overview, Properties of a MANET, spectrum of MANET applications, routing
and various routing algorithms, security in MANETs.