Mobile Computing Handbook

by Ilyas; Mohammad

• ISBN13: 9780849319716
• ISBN10: 0849319714
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-28
• Publisher: CRC Press

Summary

The debut of small, inexpensive, yet powerful portable computers has coincided with the exponential growth of the Internet, making it possible to access computing resources and information at nearly any location at almost any time. This new trend, mobile computing, is poised to become the main technology driver for a decade to come. There are many challenges that make mobile computing a hot research and development area. Researchers, engineers, and practitioners need a comprehensive resource and reference to aid them in their quest to make the potential of this technology a reality.The Mobile Computing Handbook explores the benefits and challenges of the field, and includes the latest insight into the major topics of this emerging discipline. It provides, in 40 chapters written by industry experts, technical information about all aspects of mobile computing, from basic concepts to research-level material, with learned analysis of future directions. This handbook captures the present state of the field and serves as an invaluable source of reference material.Following an introduction and an overview of mobile applications, the book explores location management, location-based services, caching strategies, power management, performance and modeling, security and privacy, and many other subjects.

Table of Contents

Wearable computing	p. 3
Developing mobile applications : a lime primer	p. 25
Pervasive application development : approaches and pitfalls	p. 53
ISAM, joining context awareness and mobility to building pervasive applications	p. 73
Integrating mobile wireless devices into the computational grid	p. 95
Multimedia messaging service	p. 121
A scheme for nomadic hosts location management using DNS	p. 149
Location management techniques for mobile computing environments	p. 163
Locating mobile objects	p. 197
Dependable message delivery to mobile units	p. 227
Location-dependent query processing in mobile computing	p. 255
Simulation models and tool for mobile location-dependent information access	p. 275
Context-aware mobile computing	p. 297
Mobile agent middlewares for context-aware applications	p. 315
Cache management in wireless and mobile computing environments	p. 337
Cache invalidation schemes in mobile environments	p. 361
Hoarding in mobile computing environments	p. 389
Power-aware cache management in mobile environments	p. 403
Energy efficient selective cache invalidation	p. 421
Self-policing mobile ad hoc networks	p. 435
Securing mobile ad hoc networks	p. 457
Ad hoc network security	p. 483
Modeling distributed applications for mobile ad hoc networks using attributed task graphs	p. 503
Medium access control mechanisms in mobile ad hoc networks	p. 543
Quality of service routing in mobile ad hoc networks : past and future	p. 569
Issues in scalable clustered network architecture for mobile ad hoc networks	p. 611
Routing and mobility management in wireless ad hoc networks	p. 637
Localized broadcasting in mobile ad hoc networks using neighbor designation	p. 663
Energy-efficient wireless networks	p. 689
Power management for mobile computers	p. 709
Power awareness and management techniques	p. 731
Adaptive algorithmic power optimization for multimedia workload in mobile environments	p. 747
Energy-aware Web caching over hybrid networks	p. 779
Transmitter power control in wireless computing	p. 805
A survey on mobile transaction models	p. 839
Analytic mobility models of PCS networks	p. 877
Battery power management in portable devices	p. 893
Challenges in wireless security : a case study of 802.11	p. 923
Security for mobile agents : issues and challenges	p. 941
Security, trust, and privacy in mobile computing environments	p. 961
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