Subject: Mobile Computing

Difficulty: Medium

Marks: 4 Marks

Mobile Computing Functions: The mobile computing functions can be logically divided into following major segments.

1. User with device: The user could have fixed device like desktop computer or portable device like mobile phone, PDA etc.

Network: When user is mobile, he will use different network at different places at different time.

Gateway: This is required to interface different transport bearer. This gateway converts one specific transport bearer to another bearer (environment).

Middleware: It is a software layer between user application and the operating system.

Content: It is a place or server where originally the content is stored. This could be an application, system or even collection of system