1. PROF. MAULIK PATEL CED, GPERI Mobile Computing Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute 1 Prepared By: Prof. Maulik Patel

2. Need to be context-independant as well as context- sensitive. Context means, all the information that helps determine the state of object (a person, a device, a place or other entity tracked by system). Mobility implies that attributes associated with devices and users will change constantly Example:  Content with context awareness  Content switch on context  Content transcoding on context. Design Consideration for MC 2 Prepared By: Prof. Maulik Patel

3. 3 n/w can be divided into three major functional area: Core - Internet Edge – internet (combination of various n/w and interworks with one another). Access – Both wireless and wired. Wireless could be range from infrared, bluetooth, WiFi, GSM, GPRS, CDMA, etc. Wire could be some kind of LAN. Mobile Computing through internet

4. Prepared By: Prof. Maulik Patel 4 Enhance existing application Rent an application from an ASP Write a new application Buy a packaged solution Bridge the gap through middleware Making Existing applications Mobile-Enabled

5. PROF. MAULIK PATEL CED, GPERI Mobile Computing Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute 5 Prepared By: Prof. Maulik Patel Mobile Technologies

6. Prepared By: Prof. Maulik Patel 6 Bluetooth Radio frequency identification(Rfid) Wireless Broadband, etc.

7. Prepared By: Prof. Maulik Patel 7 Bluetooth