What is Mobile Computing?

What are the basic building blocks for Mobile Computing?

What do you understand by Mobility in Mobile Computing?
What are the two different types of mobility in Mobile Computing?
What are the different types of applications in which Mobile Computing is used?
What are the main obstacles that occurred in mobile communications?

What is the full form of a SIM card?

What information is stored on a SIM card?
What is the working function of a SIM card in Mobile communication?
What are the different advantages of Mobile Computing?
What are the main disadvantages of Mobile Computing?
What do you understand by multiplexing in Mobile computing?
What are the three fundamental propagation behaviours depending on their frequency?
What do you understand by multipath propagation?
What is the hopping sequence in Mobile Communication?
Illustrate the difference between borrowing channel allocation (BCA) and fixed channel allocation (FCA).
Illustrate the responsibility of an authentication center.
Illustrate the function of traffic multiframe and control multiframe.
Extend different components of the Mobile IP.
Interpret GSM in Mobile Computing.
Explain the outline of the GSM System Protocol Architecture.
Illustrate the function of TCP.
Illustrate the working of TCP in Mobile Computing.
Interpret the polling in Mobile Communication.
Compare FDMA and TDMA.
Interpret the meaning of DSSS.
Illustrate the limitations of mobile computing.
Illustrate the localization and calling in GSM.
Extend the Hidden terminals problem.
Compare Hidden and Exposed Terminal, Near and Far Terminals.
Write the name of the data Unit of the Transport layer.
What is the basic function of the snooping TCP?
Mention the name of the data unit to send by the Internet layer.
Write the difference between TCP and UDP protocol?
What is the name of services provided by TCP?
Write the name of all TCP “Flag”.
What is the role of the TCP checksum field?
What do you mean by “PORT”?
Define the term Endpoint in TCP?
What is congestion?
Define round trip time.
Define the significance of TCP acknowledgement.
What is the purpose of the usage of WAP technology?
Write the difference between WAP 1.1 and WAP 1.3.
Define the usage of Deck and Card in WAP.
Elaborate the function of WAP simulator.
Which kind of technical specification is required in WAP?
Write the full form of DSDV protocol.
Give some examples of Mobile OS.
Which kind of LAN is helpful to provide support for workgroups?
IEEE 802.11n provides high- speed data transport at
transmissions are controlled according to assigned QoS.
Write a name of the example of table-based distance vector routing protocol.
The main purpose of DHCP is to provide .
Write the feature of TCP sliding window.
What is necessity of TTL field?
Disadvantages of WLANs are
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In mobile computing, all transactions must fulfil
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Which fields of the IPv4 header change from router to router?
Foreign agents and home agents advertise their presence periodically using special agent
messages.
What do you mean by hierarchical network?

How do MIMO antennae function?

What is 4G standard?

What is the purpose of the usage of smart token?

Define the main function of infrared data association protocol.

What is the interpretation of CGSR?

How do you classify ZigBee network?

Write the function of application server.

What can be integrated by SMIL?

What do you mean by cache validation scheme?

What is functioning capability of context-aware computing?

Define ACID rule.

Write the various frequency band of operation of HSPA+.

What are the various subnet address for Class A, B and C?

What is reason behind the availability of high speed through HSCSD?

How is a traffic multiframe formatted?

How are the frequency channels and time slots accessed by a mobile station?
State the advantages and disadvantages of wireless transmission as compared to optical fiber transmission.

Determine the throughput of a link with w=2000 B and RTT delay acknowledgement =15625 iis.

State the advantage of new TCP Reno.

What is duplicate acknowledgement?

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of WLAN.

Explain the difference between pure and slotted ALOHA.

Explain the applications of the infrared waves in Mobile communication.

Explain differences between infrastructure and ad-hoc networks.

Explain the applications of Mobile adhoc network?

Demonstrate the architecture of Phy layer in WLAN.

Explain the framework of MAC layer in WLAN.

Explain the fundamental differences between LAN and WLAN.

Analyze the gap between CDMA and CSMA.

Analyze the utility gap between HLR and VLR.

Distinguish between home agent and foreign agent.

Explain the coordinated system in WLAN.

Elaborate the fairness problems regarding channel access solved in IEEE 802.11, HiperLAN2, and Bluetooth respectively.

Distinguish DCF and PCF.

Distinguish the various WLAN family.

Distinguish WPAN and WLAN.

Explain the function of Hyper LAN.

Explain the function of SDMA.

How do you explain the of agent solicitation?

Explain the meaning of binding request and Binding acknowledgement.

Explain the various layers of TCP/IP protocol stack.

Explain the various useful applications of WLAN.

Explain various data rates available with WLAN network connection.

Distinguish VANET and MANET.

Explain the applications of MANET.

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of AODV and DSR protocol.

Analyze the various protocols in WAP protocol suit.

Why are standards necessary in networking? Briefly explain any LAN standard.

What is Bluetooth? How is Bluetooth useful in mobile computing?

Explain the architecture of a mobile telecommunication system using a suitable schematic diagram.

What are piconets and scatternets? Explain some important applications of these networks.

Evaluate the minimum packet size for a CSMA/CD network operating at 1 Gbps and having a length of 100 meters. Clearly show
your assumptions and calculations.

Explain the different hardware components that are used in a wireless network.

Name one MAC protocol that is used in sensor networks. Briefly explain its working.

Explain the role of a pseudorandom sequence generator in the working of the CDMA protocol.

Do you agree with the following statement: “In CSMA/CD protocol, when two nodes transmit on a shared medium, a collision
can occur only when two nodes start transmitting exactly at the same time instant.” Explain your answer.

Explain data synchronization and its importance with examples.

Explain the need for software layers and components using the blackberry 7130e as an example.

Explain the various security constraints in mobile devices.

Explain the way of transmission of eight symbols using 8-PSK (with the constellation diagram).

Explain the difference between space division multiple access and time division multiple access and their merit, demerits.

Explain transparent and non- transparent data transmission. How does forward error control help in reducing the BER?

Explain the algorithm to implement CSMA/CD.

Explain the gap between CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA and also propose the preferred one between these two protocol architectures.

Explain the T1 digital system in TDMA.

Explain the trade-off between TDMA, FDMA and CDMA.

Explain the network and switching subsystem of GSM.

Explain the network architecture of Mobile IP.

Apply end-to-end tunneling in Mobile IP.

Explain the difference between GSM and GPRS architecture.

Distinguish between WLAN and WiMAX.

Explain the whole architecture of WiMAX in different blocks.

Explain the difference between various fading channels.

Assess different services provided by GSM.

Explain the gaps between hard hand-off and soft hand-off.

Explain the triangular routing in Mobile IP.

What do you understand by signal modulation? Briefly explain how it is achieved. Why is it necessary to modulate a baseband
signal on a carrier signal, before transmitting it?

What is the difference between a baseband signal and a broadband signal? Using a suitable schematic diagram, explain how a
broadband signal is obtained.

Demonstrate the protocol stack of Bluetooth.

What is a personal area network? Explain the role of Bluetooth in personal area networking using a suitable example.
Explain the architecture of a mobile computing environment. Discriminate the functions of the presentation tier, application tier
and data tier of mobile computing environment.

Explain at least three similarities and three dissimilarities between a GSM network and GPRS network and a UMTS network.

Distinguish between analog and digital transmissions in the context of mobile communications. Illustrate their relative
advantages.

Distinguish between mobile computing and wireless networking.

Can cellular networks and wireless LANs be considered as ad hoc networks? Explain your answer.

Briefly explain the important classes of MANET routing protocols and compare their relative advantages. Compare them with
respect to network overhead, routing quality and routing time.

Explain the important features provided by a modern mobile operating system, the special constraints under which a mobile OS
needs to function, and the future trends in the development of mobile operating systems.

Assume that a 24-symbol code (111000011110000111100001) is

used with chipping frequencies of 900, 900.02, 900.04,..., MHz.
i) What will be the bandwidth used in CDMA transmission of the signal?
ii) Assume that the symbols are transmitted after 8-PSK modulation. What will be the new carrier signal bandwidth? What will
be the phase angles and amplitudes of the resulting signal?
iii) Assume that the symbols are transmitted after QAM modulation. What will be the new carrier signal bandwidth? What will
be the phase angles and amplitudes of the resulting signal?
iv) Assume that the four subcarriers are used for transmission. What will be the phase angles and amplitudes of the resulting
signal?

Explain all the features of windows CE based devices, i-phone and Symbian OS3.

Explain memory manager features in Windows CE and explain a multi-tasking in an application.

Explain the process of send TCP packet from supervisory host to mobile node. When are fast transmission and fast recovery
triggered?

Explain the function of each field of 32-bit words in TCP protocol.