MOBILE COMPUTING
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
By
Deepika A
Department of computer science
Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts & Science
Mobile handsets, Wireless
communications and server
applications
• Mobile computing refers to the computational tasks performed by
mobile users using their handsets.
• Since the handsets have very limited processing power and memory
these devices by themselves do not have the capability to carry out
any significant and meaningful computations under can only serve as
the front end for invoking remote applications.
• Therefore, this involves the invocation of applications running on
remote servers
Marconi,
1895
invented
Radio.
Starting with the elementary,
ground-breaking
point-to-point wireless
communication achieved by
Marconi, there has
been continually the induction of
new and increasingly
sophisticated
technologies.
RADIO SYSTEM
• Terrestrial Radio System: When all the intermediaries are located on the ground,
then
• the communication system is referred to as a terrestrial radio system
• Satellite Radio System: If at least one of the intermediaries is satellite borne, then
it is referred to as a satellite radio system.
• Cell Phone System:
• The flexibility of communicating while on the move, the cell phone system also
provides data services such as Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia
Messaging Service (MMS), and even email and web browsing while on the
move.
• It possible for people to communicate and carry out important work anytime
and from anywhere. For this reason, mobile computing is often referred to as
ubiquitous computing.
Types of Telecommunication Networks
• A popular way of classifying telecommunication networks is into
voice networks and data networks.
• The voice networks were the first ones to be developed and
formed the predominant telecommunication networks in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
• In a voice network, analog traffic is usually modulated on a
carrier signal for spectral and transmission efficiency. The
traditional telephone networks that carry voice traffic in analog
form.
• The data networks carry data in digital form. The data signals are
also modulated on an analog carrier signal for spectral and
transmission efficiency.
• The term data here refers to any information such as text,
documents, picture, movie, sound, etc., which needs to be first
coded into a bit stream.
• Analog signals such as voice, video, etc., have to be first
quantized into digital data for coding into bit streams.
• Traditional voice networks such as PSTN (public switched
telephone networks) relied on circuit switching, whereas data
networks are more recent and are based on the store-and-
forward packet switching mechanism.
• Advantage of the packet-switched networks:
• Efficient use of the transmission medium
• Cost effective
• Depending on the traffic conditions, packets can get stored at a
switch for a significant amount of time causing queues to get
built up at various switches
• The modern day networks deploy high-speed, powerful switches and routers.
• This has made it possible for voice to be transmitted over packet-switched
networks and hence VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) has become a very popular
and cheap medium of communication.
• Computer Networks:
• Controller Area Networks (CANs)
• Local Area Networks (LANs)
• Internetworks.
• Controller Area Networks:
• A Controller Area Network (CAN) is essentially a very small network that is
typically used to connect the different components of an embedded controller.
• The end-to-end length of a CAN is usually less than 50 metres.
• Since the propagation time of a CAN is very small, it behaves more like a local bus
in a computer.
• the use of CAN has extended beyond its automotive origins and can now be found
in divers application areas such as industrial automation systems, trains, ships,
agricultural machinery, household appliances, office automation systems and
elevators.
