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)
1.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