IT1402 - Mobile Computing

UNIT I

2 Marks

1. Define CDMA.

2. Define Signal.

3. What is digital modulation?

4. Define code division multiplexing.

5. List out the advantages of frequency division multiplexing.

6. What are the several versions in CSMA?

7. What is Quadrature Amplitude Modulation?

8. What are the 2 sub layers in DLC?

9. Define time division multiplexing.

10. List out the different types of frequencies used for data transmission.

11. Define Antenna.

12. List out the different types of antennas.

13. Define Modulation.

14. What is hidden and exposed terminal problem?

15. Define polling.

16. What is spread spectrum?

17. List out the different types of spread spectrum techniques.

18. Distinguish between ALOHA and slotted ALOHA.

19. Define fading.

20. Distinguish between DSSS and FHSS.

21. What are the 3 fundamental propagation behaviors depending on their frequency?

22. What is multipath propagation?

23. What is guard space?

24. What are the 3 different basic schemes analog modulation?

25. What is the use of Phase Lock Loop(PLL)?

26. What is hopping sequence?

27. What is dwell time?

28. What are the advantages of cellular systems?

29. What is browsing channel allocation and fixed channel allocation?

30. What are the disadvantages of cellular systems?

31. What is digital sense multiple access?

32. What is Network and Switching subsystem?

33. What is authentication centre?

34. What is called burst and normal burst?

35. What are the basic groups of logical channels?

36. Define traffic multiframe and control multiframe?

16 Marks

1. Explain different TDMA schemes in detail.

2. Explain multiplexing in detail.

3. Discuss Modulation techniques in detail.

4. Account on CDMA Scheme.

5. Explain FDMA in detail.

6. Discuss SDMA in detail.

7. Explain major types of networks.

8. Explain types of Antennas in detail.

9. Explain the various applications of mobile computing.

10. Explain about the signal propagation.

11. Discuss about the cellular system.

12. List the difference between S/T/F/CDMA.

13. What is spread spectrum with its types.

14. Why do MAC scheme in wired network fail in wireless networks and how dose the
multiple access with collision avoidance (MACA) scheme work.

15. Define modulation and explain the method for analog modulation techniques in
details.

16. Discuss briefly the advanced phase shift keying.

UNIT II

2 Marks

1. What is Handover?

2. What are the categories of Mobile services?

3. What is TETRA?

4. What is meant by GPRS?

5. What are subsystems in GSM system?

6. What is meant by GEO?

7. Define the inclination angle and perigee.

8. Define the elevation angle and footprint.

9. What is MSC?

10. What are the different types of disk?

11. What are the goals of DVB?

12. Name some of the formats supported by MOT?

13. What are the advantages of DAB?

14. What is object repetition?

15. What is EIT?

16. What are the service information sent by DVB?

17. What is Active scanning?

18. What is Passive Scanning?

19. What is FIC?

20. What are the registers maintained by the gateway of satellite?

21. Specify the security services offered by GSM.

22. What is the frequency range of uplink and downlink in GSM network?

23. What are the two basic groups of logical channels in GSM?

24. What are the control channel groups in GSM?

25. List out the numbers needed to locate an MS and to address the MS.

26. What are the four possible handover scenarios in GSM?

27. What are the security services offered by GSM?

28. What is meant by GGSN?

29. What is meant by SGSN?

30. What is meant by BSSGP?

31. Define the protocol architecture of DECT.

32. Specify the standards offered by TETRA.

33. How many ITU standardized groups of 3G radio access technologies are there in
IMT-2000?

34. What are the steps perform during the search for a cell after power on?

35. What are the two basic classes of handover?

36. What are the two basic transport mechanisms used by DAB?

37. What are the two transport modes defined for MSC?

38. Define the terms: i. Earth Station. ii. Uplink.

39. Define Elevation Angle.

40. What are the factors limited the number of sub channels provided within the satellite
channel?

16 Marks

1. Write notes on DECT and TETRA.

2. Write notes on UMTS and IMT 2000.

3. Explain broadcast systems in detail.

4. Explain satellite systems in detail.

5. Explain GSM systems in detail.

6. Explain GPRS systems in detail.

7. Explain DAB in detail.

8. Explain DVB in detail.

9. Explain the following a)Routing b)Hand over c)Localization.

10. Explain the various satellite orbit and the parameters associated.

11. Compare GEO, MEO and LEO

 UNIT III

2 Marks

1. What is the primary goal of IEE 802.11?

2. What is meant by SIFS?

3. What are Advantages of wireless LAN?

4. What are Design Goals of Wireless LAN?

5. What are the three Low Power States provided by Bluetooth?

6. What is SCO?

7. What are Advantages and Disadvantages of Infrared?

8. What are the system integration functions of MAC management?

9. What do you meant by roaming?.

10. What is mobile routing?

11. What are the functions which support service and connection control?

12. What are the examples for service scenarios identified in WATM ?

13. What is BRAN?

14. What are the different network types of BRAN?

15. What is the main problem for WATM during handover?

16. What are the different segments in ATM end-to-end connection?

17. What is anchor point? .

18. What are different types of handover?

19. What is mobile terminal and wireless terminal?.

20. Mention some of the disadvantages of WLANS?

21. Mention the design goals of WLANS?

22. What is the difference between infrastructure and ad-hoc networks?

23. Mention the features of infrared transmission?

24. What are the disadvantages of infrared transmission?

25. Mention the features of radio transmission?

26. What are the disadvantages of radio transmission?

27. Define frequency hopping spread spectrum?

28. Define random back off time?

29. What is Traffic Indication Map?

30. What is Delivery Traffic Indication Map?

31. What is Ad-hoc TIM?

32. Mention the features of HIPERLAN1?

33. What are the three phases of medium access in EY-NPMA?

34. Mention the elements of Bluetooth core protocols?

35. What is the purpose of sniff state?

36. What is the use of hold state?

37. What is the purpose of park state?

16 Marks

1. Explain the architecture and features of IEEE 802.11 in details

2. Write notes on WATM services and Functions.

3. Write notes on WATM handover.

4. Write notes on location management, addressing and access point control protocol.

5. Give a detail note on HYPERLAN

6. Account on BLUETOOTH in detail.

7. Discuss in detail about the different services of IEEE802.11.

8. Explain in detail about Adhoc networks.

9. List out the Advantages and Disadvantages of Infrastructure network and adhoc
network.

10. Explain the MAC layer in IEEE802.11

11. Explain how power management is done in IEEE 802.11 infrastructure based and ad
hoc networks.

12. Discuss how to increase the quality of service in an ad hoc network.

UNIT IV

2 Marks

1. What is generic routing encapsulation?

2. Define COA.

3. What is meant by Transparency?

4. What is Binding Request?

5. What are the possibilities for the location of care-of-address (COA)?

6. What are the requirements for the development of mobile IP standard?

7. Why is need of routing?

8. What is Dynamic source Routing?

9. Define Mobile node.

10. What is Encapsulation and Decapsulation?

11. Define Compatibility.

12. What is Home Agent (HA)?

13. Define Foreign Agent (FA).

14. Define Agent Advertisement.

15. Define Registration.

16. Define Key distribution.

17. Applications of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

18. Define DSDV (Destination Sequenced Distance Vector).

19. List the examples for interference based routing.

20. Define tunneling.

21. What are the requirements of mobile IP?

22. Mention the different entities in a mobile IP.

23. What do you mean by mobility binding?

24. Define a tunnel.

25. Define an outer header

26. Define an inner header.

27. What is the use of network address translation?

28. Define triangular routing.

29. What is meant by a binding cache?

30. Define binding request.

31. What is known as Binding update?

32. Explain binding acknowledgement.

33. Define binding warning.

34. Explain cellular IP.

35. What are the advantages of cellular IP?

36. What is known as mobility anchor point?

37. Explain destination sequence distance vector routing.

38. What are the two things added to the distance vector algorithm?

39. How the dynamic source routing does divide the task of routing into two separate
problems?

16 Marks

1. Explain mobile IP in detail.

2. Give a detailed account of mobile ad-hoc networks.

3. Explain about DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.

4. Discuss about Adhoc-networks.

5. Explain about Traditional routing algorithms in detail.

6. Explain about DSDV (Destination Sequenced Distance Vector) in detail.

7. State Dynamic source routing in detail.

8. Discuss about inference routing in detail.

9. Explain the following :a)Agent Advertisement b)Encapsulation

10. Explain the following:a)Registration b)Tunneling.

11. a. What are the requirements of a mobile IP? (8) b. Describe Dynamic host
configuration protocol. (8)

12. a. Discuss the routing algorithm in ad-hoc network (8) b. What are the entities in
mobile IP? (8)

13. a. Discuss how optimization in achieved in mobile IP (8).b. Explain tunneling and
encapsulation in mobile IP. (8)

14. Explain how dynamic source routing protocols handles routing with an example (16)
 UNIT V

2 Marks

1. What are the two functions of the transport layer in the internet?

2. What is called the exponential growth of the congestion window?

3. List out the advantages of I-TCP.

4. List out disadvantages of I-TCP.

5. Define Slow Start.

6. How does data transmission takes place?

7. What is mean by Slow Start?

8. What is mean by SCPS-TP?

9. What are Advantages and Disadvantages of MobileTCP?

10. What is Fast retransmit?

11. What is fast recovery?

12. What is HTTP?

13. What is WAP?

14. What is WML Browser?

15. List out advantages of Transmission Freezing.

16. Define WAE.

17. What is WML?

18. Write short notes on WAP forum.

19. Distinguish between Traditional TCP and wireless TCP?

20. What is WTP? What are its classes?

21. List out the network elements of WAP.

22. What is the purpose of congestion window in classical TCP?

23. What is slow start?

24. What is the use of congestion threshold?

25. What led to the development of Indirect TCP?

26. What is the goal of M-TCP?

27. What do you mean by persistent mode?

28. What are the characteristics of 2.5G/3.5G wireless networks?

29. What are the configuration parameters to adapt TCP to wireless environments?

30. State the requirements of WAP.

31. Name the layers of WAP.

32. Name some ICMP messages.

33. What is WTP? What are its classes?

34. What is WSP?

35. Name some features of WSP adapted to web browsing.

36. What is WML?

37. What are the features of WML?

38. What are the advantages of WML Script over WML?

39. Name the libraries specified by WML Script.

40. What are the classes of libraries?

41. Name the operations performed by PAP.

42. What are the components of WAP2.0?

16 Marks
1. Explain in detail about traditional TCP.

2. Explain about Classical TCP improvement techniques in detail.

3. Write notes on WDP and WTLS.

4. Write notes on wireless sessions protocol

5. Explain in detail about WAP.

6. Discuss about WAE and WTP.

7. Explain the following: Snooping TCP and Indirect TCP.

8. Explain the following: Selective repeat and Fast retransmit and recovery.

9. Explain the following: Freezing and transaction oriented TCP.

10. Explain about WML and WML script with the help of an example.

11. Explain classical TCP improvements and snooping TCP.

12. Explain the concept of wireless markup language.

13. Explain wireless application protocols with the its version WAP 2.0in detail.

14. Describe the operation of the window flow control mechanism