Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
MAP-I, 2008/2009
 
Professors
Prof. Adriano Moreira (AM), Universidade do Minho 
Prof. Manuel Ricardo (MR), Universidade do Porto
Prof. Rui Aguiar (RA), Universidade do Aveiro
 
Objectives of WCMC
1 To provide the students with the knowledge required to understand (a) emerging wireless and mobile communications networks, (b) their computational demands, (c) the classes of distributed applications and services enabled by these networks, and (d) the computational resources required to create the new networks and the new applications.
2 To provide the students with the practical skills required to develop services and applications for wireless and mobile networks.
3 To enable the students to identify the relationships between the global, pervasive, computation environment and the communications infrastructure supporting it.
 
Plan of lectures
Session Date Prof Program
1 6-Oct RA 1. New generation networks overview
  a. Integration of services and technologies
  b. Networks evolution
  c. Standards and market issues
2 13-Oct AM 2. Communications networks technologies
  a. Fundamentals of communications
  b. Wireless technologies (WLAN, WMAN)
3 20-Oct RA   c. Wireless technologies (GPRS, UMTS)
  d. Broadcast and satellite technologies (DVB, DMB)
4 27-Oct AM 3. Services and applications in novel generation networks
  a. Web services
  b. Services and applications platforms
5 3-Nov AM   c. Service discovery
  d. Positioning and location
  e. Mobile example: 3G - Integrated Multimedia Subsystem.
  f. Research Issues
6 10-Nov MR 4. Protocols and functions for integrated networks
  a. Mobility management
7 17-Nov MR   b. Authentication and access control
  c. Quality of service
8 24-Nov MR 5. Trends for the emerging communications networks
  a. Self-organized networks
  b. Opportunistic networking
9 15-Dec MR   c. Peer-to-peer applications
Note - this plan may be changed
 
Slides
preface-wcmc.pdf

 
Assessment
1 Final exam
2 Review of two papers
3 Practical work consisting in the development of an application for a mobile device involving web services and positioning services; to be developed by groups of two students
 
Final classification
Classification = 0.5 * FinalExam + 0.35 * PracticalWork + 0.15 * PapersReview,

  provided  FinalExam >= 9.0 valores

 
Important dates
6-Oct Professor presents the 5 articles to review (each student reviews  two of them)
27-Oct Professor presents the practical/laboratory work
10-Nov Student delivers the review of the first paper
22-Dec Student delivers the review of the second paper 
12-Jan Student demonstrates the laboratory work and delivers its report
?? - Jan Final exam
 
Literature
Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures, Yi-Bing Lin, Imrich Chlamtac Wiley, 2001
Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet, Sudhir Dixit, Ramjee Prasad, Artech House, 2002.
The 3G IP Multimedia Subsystem, Merging the Internet and the Cellular Worlds, Gonzalo Camarillo and Miguel a. Garcia-Martin,Wiley, Second Edition, 2005
Network Convergence - Services, Applications, Transport, and Operations Support, Hu Hanrahan, Wiley 2007
Advanced Wireless Networks  - 4G Technologies, S. Glisic, Wiley, 2006.
Mobile Communications, Jochen Schiller, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003
Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice, Theodore S. Rappaport, Second Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002
Mobile IP Technology and Applications, Stefan Raab and Madhavi W. Chandra, Cisco Press, 2005
 
Learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student shall be able to:
1 describe wireless and mobile communications networks;
2 enumerate and compare major wireless technologies, and describe their architectures and capabilities;
3 describe and discuss the main functions of wireless and mobile communications;
4 describe and discuss the emerging paradigms on the integration of communications networks;
5 identify the computational demands of the emerging wireless networks, both from the functional and performance points of view;
6 describe the concept of service oriented architectures and provide examples of existing solutions;
7 develop services to support the concept of service oriented architecture for mobile networks;
8 create  applications which exploit the capabilities of wireless and mobile networks.
9 identify the relationships between the global, pervasive, computation environment and the communications infrastructure which supports it.