Midterm Exam II for CS 359T (Mobile Computing and Wireless Network)

Time: April 23 (Monday)

Required Materials

• D. Barbara, "Mobile Computing and Databases - A Survey," IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 11, No. 1, (Jan/Feb 1999), pp. 108-117.
• T. Hodes and R. Katz, "Composable Ad hoc Location-based Services for Heterogeneous Mobile Clients," ACM Wireless Networks Journal, Vol. 5, No. 5, October 1999, pp. 411-427.
• L. Mummert, M. Ebling and M. Satyanarayanan, "Exploiting weak connectivity for mobile file access," Proceedings of 15th ACM SOSP (Symposium on Operating Systems Principles), 1995.
• B. Badrinath, A. Fox, L. Kleinrock, G. Popek, P. Reiher, and M. Satyanarayanan, "A conceptual framework for network and client adaptation," ACM MONET Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, (Dec. 2000), pp. 221-231.
• R. Gray, G. Cybenko, D. Kotz, and D. Rus, "Mobile agents: Motivations and State of the Art," In Jeffrey Bradshaw, editor, Handbook of Agent Technology, AAAI/MIT Press, 2001.

Format

• Open book, Open paper, open laptop.
• Interview type questions, simple answers (in a few sentences).

Sample Exam Questions

Here are some sample questions and some also include answers.

• Why is data broadcasting attractive in wireless networks?
  Answer: wireless medium is intrinsically broadcast-based. Data broadcasting uses this feature to lower data delivery cost.
• What is file hoarding and how is it different from normal caching?
• Describe one application that you will use mobile agents.