WIRLESS COMMUNICATION AND

MOBILE COMPUTING

Lecturer: Abdela A.

Email:[email protected]

Phone No:+251927297786

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 CHAPTER ONE

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 Overview of wireless And Mobile computing
What is Mobile Computing?

Mobile

 Able to move freely.

 usually Wireless is need to move

freely .

 Computing

 The activity of performing

computations.

 Performing computation in mobile

units.
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 Why mobile computing?

What is the computing?

• The activity of performing computations.

• Computing can also be defined as the activity of using

computer hardware and software for some purpose.

What is the mobile?

• That someone /something can move or be moved easily

and quickly from place to place

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 Computing trend

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 Existing computing paradigms

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 New form of computing

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 What is mobile computing?
• In recent years, distributed computer has become the
norm, especially after the advent of the internet.

• Today, technological advances are shaping a new

computing environment where the user is free from the
need to work at a specific location, and is even enabled
to work while on the move.

• This new paradigm is often called MOBILE COMPUTING.

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 What is mobile computing?

• Mobile Computing is an umbrella

term used to describe
technologies that enable people to
access network services anyplace,
anytime, and anywhere.

• Mobile computing can be defined

as a computing environment over
physical mobility.

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 What is mobile computing
• Mobile computing is a technology that allows transmission
of data, voice and video via a computer or any other
wireless enabled device without having to be connected
to a fixed physical link.

• Mobile computing is the process of computation on a

mobile device.

• In mobile computing, a set of distributed computing

systems or service provider servers participate, connect,
and synchronize through mobile communication protocols.
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 What is mobile computing
• Mobile computing Provides decentralized (distributed)
computations on diversified devices, systems,

• and networks, which are mobile, synchronized, and interconnected

via mobile communication standards and protocols.

• Mobile computing Also called pervasive computing when a set of

computing devices, systems,

• or networks have the characteristics of transparency, application-

aware adaptation, and have an environment sensing ability.

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 What is mobile computing

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 Why Go for Mobile?
• Enable anywhere/anytime/anyone connectivity.

Bring computer communications to areas without preexisting

infrastructure.

 Enable mobility.

Enable new applications.

An exciting new research area.

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 What is Mobility?
• A person who moves:

• Between different geographical locations

• Between different networks

• Between different communication devices

• Between different applications

• A device that moves:

• Between different geographical locations

• Between different networks

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 Types of mobility

• There are two kinds of mobility’s.

User mobility: In user mobility a user can access the same or

similar services at different places.

• That is the user can be mobile, and services will follow him.

Device mobility :the communication device moves with or

without help of user.

• Several techniques in communication network guarantees that

communication is even possible while device is being moved.

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 Question

Is wireless mobile?
or
Is mobile wireless?

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 Cont.…
• The following are the four different characteristics exhibit by the
communication devices.

Fixed and wired:

• This category describes the fixed desktop computers in the office,

which are connected through the wired network.

• The weight and power consumption of these devices does not permit
for mobility, these devices use fixed network for information
accessing.

Mobile and wired:

• The most of the portable computing devices fall within this category.

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 Cont..
• We can easily carry these devices (eg: laptops) from one place
to another place and reconnecting to the organization’s network
via the telephone lines or a modem.

Fixed and wireless: This kind of technique is especially used for

installing networks in historical places such as buildings to avoid
damages by fixing cables and other equipment.

• This method can also be used for fastest network setup.

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 Cont..
• Mobile and wireless:

• This is the most recent technique, in which no cable

restricts, the user, who can roam between different
wireless networks.

• Eg:GSM –Global system for mobile communications.

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 Computing Mobile devices
• A mobile device is a pocket-sized computing device, typically
having a display screen with touch input or a miniature keyboard.
• Due to the rapid advancement of the technology its hard to make
a specific classifications of mobile devices.
• Mobile Computing consists of various types of devices.
• They are built for various purposes.
• Mobile computers are built and used for a wide variety of
specialized purposes.
• As we examine the field, we find the term is divided into four
main incarnations:
• Phones
• PDAs
• Pagers
• wireless/Ethernet laptop computers.

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 Mobile computing device

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 Comparison to Wired Net

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 Ubiquitous Computing
Pervasive/ Ubiquitous computing
is about the invisible and everywhere (every time)
computing
• Ubiquitous= “seeming to be in all places”
• Pervasive= “present or noticeable in every part of a
thing or place”
• Future State of Computing Technology?
• Mobile, many computers
• Small Processors
• Low Power Consumption
• Relatively Low Cost

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 Ubiquitous Computing
• Small, mobile, inexpensive computers…..everywhere!

• Fade into the background of everyday life

• Computers everywhere provides potential for data collection….sensors!

• Temperature
• Light

• Sound
• Motion

• Pressure

• Many others!!!

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 Pervasive computing Example
• A simple example is the automatic adjustment of heating,
cooling and lighting levels in a room based on an occupant’s
profile.
• refrigerators "aware" of their suitably tagged contents, able
to both plan a variety of menus from the food actually on
hand, and warn users of stale or spoiled food.
Characterized by :
Context Awareness (physical location, physiological state,
emotional state,….. distraction-free)
Ad-hoc Networks
Smart Spaces,(equipped with visual and audio sensing
systems )
Smart Sensors, Wearable…

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 Cloud Computing
• Cloud computing provides computation, software, data
access, and storage services that do not require end-user
knowledge of the physical location and configuration of
the system that delivers the services.”
• Cloud computing characteristics:
• Agility,
• Reduced Cost,
• Device Location Independence,
• On-demand Scalability And
• Performance

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 Personal computing system

Personal computing system

– refers to the use of personal computers

for Computation.

Characterized by
• Local software installation,

• Local system maintenance

• Customizable to user needs

• Very low utilization

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 Distributed computing
Distributed computing :
• refers to the use of distributed systems to solve computational
problems.

Distributed system 
• consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate
through a computer network.
• it appears to its users as a single coherent system

• Distributed computing example: surfing the web from different

terminals on university .
• Each web page consists of hypertext, pictures, movies and elements
anywhere on the internet

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 Distributed computing

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 Distributed computing

Distributed systems are characterized by:

 remote information access (Message passing )
High availability (replication , mirrored
execution, ...)

 fault tolerance (atomic transactions, consistency

…)

Security
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 Parallel Computing

Parallel Computing
• Calculations of large problems are divided into smaller
parts and carried out simultaneously /concurrently on
different processors.

Characterized by
• Shared memory (to exchange information between
processors)

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 Parallel Computing

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 APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING
• In many fields of work, the ability to keep on the move is vital
in order to utilities efficiently.

• The importance of Mobile Computers has been highlighted in

many fields.

• Vehicles: Music, news, road conditions, weather reports, and

other broadcast information are received via digital audio
broadcasting (DAB) with 1.5 Mbit/s.

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 APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING

• Emergencies: An ambulance with a high-quality wireless

connection to a hospital can carry vital information about
injured persons to the hospital from the scene of the
accident.

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 APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING

Business: Managers can use mobile computers say, critical presentations

to major customers.

• They can access the latest market share information.

Credit Card Verification: At Point of Sale (POS) terminals in shops and

supermarkets, when customers use credit cards for transactions

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 APPLICATIONS OF MOBILE COMPUTING
• Business
– M-Commerce: mobile E-commerce /shopping …
– M-Banking: offer mobile access to financial and account
information.
– Advertising: using SMS is becoming very popular in our
country.
– Traveling salesperson
• Entertainment, education
– outdoor Internet access
– multi user games
– M-learning : E-learning

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 Dashen bank
• The first mobile
Banking service in
Ethiopia

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 ENTERTAINMENT
• Ad-hoc networks for
multi user games,
movies, music

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 In generally,

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 Wireless communication
What is wireless communication?

• it is communication in which information is transferred

between two or more points without any wire.

• Wireless communication involves the process of

sending/receiving information through invisible waves in the
air.

• Information such as data, voice, and video are carried

through the radio frequency of the electromagnetic spectrum.

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 Modes of wireless communication!

• Bluetooth

• Hotspot

• NFC (Near Field Communication)

• Wi-fi

• Li-fi

• Etc.

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 Advantages of wireless communication

• Wireless

• Speed

• Cost

• Durability

• Flexibility

• Place of device

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 Disadvantages of wireless
communication

• Power consumption

• Security issues

• Compatibility issues

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