Challenging Issues and Limitations of Mobile Computing

Mobile computing is becoming increasingly important due to the rise in the number of portable computers and the desire to have continuous network connectivity to the Internet irrespective of the physical location of the node. Mobile computing has fast become an important new paradigm in today's world of networked computing systems. Ranging from wireless laptops to cellular phones and WiFi/Bluetooth- enabled PDA’s to wireless sensor networks, mobile computing has become ubiquitous in its impact on our daily lives. The goal of this paper is to point out some of the limitations, characteristics, applications and issues of mobile computing. In this paper the Section-I deals with Introduction to Mobile Computing, Section II deals with Characteristics and few of the technologies used for communication, Section-III deals with some of the Limitations, Section-IV deals with few Applications, Section-V deals with some of the Issues relating to Mobile computing and finally in Section-VI we have discussed few advantages followed by conclusion and references.