Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing details the engineering principles underlying mobile computing, serving as a basic reference on the subject.

Fundamentals of Mobile and Pervasive Computing is the first systematic explanation of mobile communications as a discipline in itself, containing Exercises, projects, and solutions.

Contents

1. Mobile Adaptive Computing
2. Mobility Management
3. Data Dissemination and Management
4. Context-Aware Computing
5. Introduction to Mobile Middleware
6. Middleware for Application Development: Adaptation and Agents
7. Service Discovery Middleware: Finding Needed Services
8. Introduction to Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
9. Challenges
10. Protocols
11. Approaches and Solutions
12. Wireless Security
13. Approaches to Security
14. Security in Wireless Personal Area Networks
15. Security in Wireless Local Area Networks
16. Security in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks (802.16)
17. Security in Wide Area Networks

Appendices

Brief Introduction to Wireless Communication and Networking
Questions

Index

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