Introduction: Mobility of Bits and Bytes – Wireless The Beginning – Mobile Computing – Dialogue Control – Networks – Middleware and Gateways –Application and services – Developing Mobile computer Applications – security in mobile computing – Standards – Why is it necessary – Standard bodies.

Mobile Computing Architecture: History of computers and Internet – Architecture for mobile computing – Three –tier architecture – Design considerations for mobile computing – Mobile computing through Internet –Making exiting applications mobile enabled.

Emerging Technologies: Blue Tooth – RFID – WiMAX – Mobile IP –IPv6 – Java Card. WAP: MMS – GPRS Applications.

GSM : Global System for mobile communications – GSM Architecture – GSM Entities – Call routing in GSM – GSM Addresses and Identifiers – Authentications and Security, SMS. GPRS: GPRS and packet data network – GPRS network architecture – GPRS Network operations – Data services in GPRS – Application for GPRS Limitations– Billing and Charging.

CDMA and 3G: Spread spectrum technology – Is 95 – CDMA vs GSM –Wireless Data – Third generation networks – Applications on 3G. Wireless LAN: Wireless LAN advantages – IEEE 802.11 standards – Architecture – Mobile in Wireless LAN – Deploying wireless LAN – Mobile adhoc networks and sensor networks – Wireless LAN Security –WiFi vs 3G.