Unit I
Pervasive Computing: Past, Present and Future Pervasive Computing - Pervasive Computing Market – m-Business – Application examples: Retail, Airline check-in and booking – Sales force automation – Health care – Tracking – Car information system – E-mail access via WAP
Unit II
Device Technology: Hardware – Human Machine Interfaces – Biometrics – Operating Systems – Java for Pervasive devices
Unit III
Device Connectivity: Protocols – Security – Device Management Web Application Concepts: WWW architecture – Protocols – Transcoding - Client authentication via internet
Unit IV
WAP and Beyond: Components of the WAP architecture – WAP infrastructure – WAP security issues – WML – WAP push – Products – i-Mode - Voice Technology: Basics of Speech recognition- Voice Standards – Speech applications – Speech and Pervasive Computing
Unit V
PDA: Device Categories – PDA operation Systems – Device Characteristics – Software Components - Standards – Mobile Applications - PDA Browsers Pervasive Web Application architecture: Background – Scalability and availability – Development of Pervasive Computing web applications - Pervasive application architecture
Text Book(s)
Pervasive Computing, Technology and Architecture of Mobile Internet Applications, Jochen Burkhardt, Horst Henn, Stefan Hepper, Thomas Schaech & Klaus Rindtorff, Pearson Education, 2006
References
Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Frank Adelstein, Sandeep KS Gupta, Golden Richard III, Loren Schwiebert, McGraw Hill edition, 2006