Mobile Computing and Networking

Mobile Computing Advantages and Threats

There are a number of advantages associated with mobile computing including the ability for users to connect to the Internet anywhere and at any time. An additional advantage of mobile computing is that it provides the ability to bring mobile communications to remote areas without any pre-existing infrastructure at a low cost (“Mobile Computing: A Study” 4).
However, despite the numerous advantages, there are a number of threats faced by mobile computing. These threats include limitations associated with range and bandwidth issues, security issues, transmission interferences, power assumptions, as well as a number of other related items (Chapungu). The primary limitations associated with range and bandwidth can be attributed to the fact that the networks accessible by mobile computing devices are generally constrained to a range of commercial cell phone towers. However, according to Chapungu, the major threat associated with mobile computing is related to security issues, which are discussed in greater detail within this paper. Typical applications of mobile computing and the related security issues will be introduced and discussed within this paper.