A Posteriori Perusal of Mobile Computing

Mobile computing is a new computing paradigm in which mobile devices are used to access information from anywhere, at any time. Wireless network greatly enhances the utility of a portable computing device. The field of mobile computing is merger of the portable computing device and wireless communication with the aim of providing seamless computing environment for mobile users. Mobility implies that network needs to cope with moving users. Wireless communication faces more obstacles than wired communication due to environmental interferences. As a result wireless communication is characterized by lower bandwidth, higher error rates and more frequent disconnections. Mobility can also cause wireless connectivity to be lost or degraded. Unlike typical wired network, number of mobile users varies dynamically and large convention and public events may overload the network capacity. Mobile devices are characterized by smaller size, light in weight and low power. Hence while designing wireless networks as well as mobile application softwares all these issues should taken in consideration.

Mobile computing may be a new variety of computer access rising at the intersection of the two presently dominant trends: manufacturing move-able computers in business and wireless communications in telecommunication industry. This paper discusses some key problems concerned in realizing a mobile wireless computing setting by examining the characteristics needed of every main component: mobile computer, wireless communications network, and coordination software system

The rapidly expanding technology of cellular communication, wireless LANs, and satellite services will make information accessible anywhere and at any time. Regardless of size, most mobile computers will be equipped with a wireless connection to the fixed part of the network, and, perhaps, to other mobile computers. The resulting computing environment, which is often referred to as mobile or nomadic computing, no longer requires users to maintain a fixed and universally known position in the network and enables almost unrestricted mobility. Mobility and portability will create an entire new class of applications and, possibly, new massive markets combining personal computing and consumer electronics.

This paper presents the Mobile Computing Research. Mobile computing plays a Significant Role in our Life Recent developments in device and high bandwidth ubiquitous wireless networks have made mobile computing a reality. Indeed, it is widely predicted that within the next few years access to Internet services will be primarily from wireless devices, with desktop browsing the exception. Such predictions are based on the huge growth in the wireless phone market and the success of wireless data services. This Research will help in understanding fundamental concepts, current developments in mobile communication systems and wireless computer networks.

In Mobile computing there are many Issues and impact that we identify and investigate their technical significance in this research paper. In new research, problems include management of location dependent data, information services to mobile users, frequent disconnections, wireless data broadcasting, and energy efficient data access. The rapidly expanding technology of cellular communications, wireless LAN, and satellite services will make it possible for mobile users to access information anywhere and at anytime. In the near future, millions of users will be carrying a portable computer, often called a personal digital assistant or a personal communicator. These devices will be diskless; store data in clouds. These devices will be powerful laptop computers with large memories and powerful processors. Regardless of size, all mobile computers will be equipped with a wireless.

Computing application and the technology it is based upon. It also presents the problems associated with this application and provides some solution to these problems.

Written to address technical concerns that mobile developers face regardless of the platform (J2ME, WAP, Windows CE, etc.), this book explores the differences between mobile and stationary applications and the architectural and software development concepts needed to build a mobile application. Using UML as a tool, Reza B'Far guides the developer through the development process, showing how to document the design and implementation of the application. He focuses on general concepts while using platforms as examples or as possible tools.

IJEMR, 2017

As the people are adapting the various advancements brought by mobile computing, it is becoming essential to secure the mobile computing. In the recent decades the technology has resulted in the reduction of the size of machinery and has increased the performance. This development came up with a new concept which is Mobile Computing. Mobile Computing basically allows the data transfer through the Computers, without being connected to any of the fixed physical parameter. In this paper various threats and the issues associated with Mobile computing has been highlighted.

Proceedings. Tenth International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 99, 1999

Networking homes, offices, cars and hand-held computers is the current trend of distributed mobile computing. The ever growing demand of the enterprise for integrating new technologies and new services requires a generic infrastructure. An infrastructure that allows its components to be accessed, packaged, self described, dynamically configurable, moved over wired or wireless network, deployed either in a workstation or a mobile device from anywhere at anytime. An infrastructure that can be used with new alternatives to current human-machine interfaces applicable in diverse environment. 1 1 A scenario of the near future

… symposium on Principles of distributed computing, 1996

This paper is an answer to the question: "What is unique and conceptually different about mobile computing?" The paper begins by describing a set of constraints intrinsic to mobile computing, and examining the impact of these constraints on the design of distributed systems. Next, it summarizes the key results of the Coda and Odyssey systems. Finally, it describes the research opportunities in five important topics relevant to mobile computing: caching metrics, semantic callbacks and validators, resource revocation, analysis of adaptation, and global estimation from local observations.

Mobile computing has changed the complete panorama of our everyday lifestyles. It is fitting most important due to the upward thrust within the number of transportable computer systems and the wish to have steady community connectivity to the internet without reference to the bodily location of the node. This technological know-how that allows transmission of data, voice and video via a laptop or any other Wi-Fi enabled gadget with no need to be linked to a fixed physical hyperlink. Cellular presents gigantic benefits for companies that decide on to integrate the science into their constant organizational expertise process. Starting from Wi-Fi laptops to cell phones and Wi-Fi/Bluetooth enabled individual Digital Assistants to wireless sensor networks; cell computing has become ubiquitous in its impact on our everyday lives. The purpose of this paper is to point out one of the characteristics, applications and obstacles of mobile computing.

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2000

Telematics and Informatics, 2001

With the rapidly increasing penetration of laptop computers, which are primarily used by mobile users to access Internet services, support of Internet services in a mobile environment become an increasing need. The opportunities emerging from these technologies give rise to new paradigms such as mobile computing and ubiquitous networking. However, there are numerous challenges such as reliability and quality of service, infrastructure costs, energy eciency of mobile devices, among others. This paper analyzes concepts, technologies and challenges related to these paradigms. The major challenges include mobility, disconnection and scale, new information medium and new resource limitations. As a fundamental characteristics of mobile environments, the user can see the same computing environment regardless of his or her current location. The most exciting promises of mobile computing and ubiquitous networking stay an entire new class of applications and potential new massive markets combining personal computing and consumer electronics. Ó