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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
MAP-I, 2008/2009 |
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Professors |
Prof. Adriano Moreira
(AM), Universidade do Minho |
Prof. Manuel Ricardo (MR), Universidade
do Porto |
Prof. Rui Aguiar (RA),
Universidade do Aveiro |
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Objectives of
WCMC |
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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. |
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To
provide the students with the practical skills required to develop services
and applications for wireless and mobile networks. |
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To
enable the students to identify the relationships between the global,
pervasive, computation environment and the communications infrastructure
supporting it. |
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Plan of lectures |
Session |
Date |
Prof |
Program |
1 |
6-Oct |
RA |
1. New generation
networks overview |
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a. Integration of
services and technologies |
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b. Networks evolution |
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c. Standards and
market issues |
2 |
13-Oct |
AM |
2. Communications
networks technologies |
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a. Fundamentals of
communications |
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b. Wireless
technologies (WLAN, WMAN) |
3 |
20-Oct |
RA |
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c. Wireless
technologies (GPRS, UMTS) |
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d. Broadcast and
satellite technologies (DVB, DMB) |
4 |
27-Oct |
AM |
3. Services and
applications in novel generation networks |
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a. Web services |
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b. Services and
applications platforms |
5 |
3-Nov |
AM |
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c. Service discovery |
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d. Positioning and
location |
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e. Mobile example: 3G
- Integrated Multimedia Subsystem. |
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f. Research Issues |
6 |
10-Nov |
MR |
4. Protocols and
functions for integrated networks |
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a. Mobility management |
7 |
17-Nov |
MR |
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b. Authentication and
access control |
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c. Quality of service |
8 |
24-Nov |
MR |
5. Trends for the
emerging communications networks |
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a. Self-organized
networks |
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b. Opportunistic
networking |
9 |
15-Dec |
MR |
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c. Peer-to-peer
applications |
Note - this
plan may be changed |
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Slides |
preface-wcmc.pdf
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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 |
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Final classification |
Classification = 0.5 * FinalExam + 0.35 *
PracticalWork + 0.15 * PapersReview,
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provided FinalExam >=
9.0 valores
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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 |
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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 |
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Learning
outcomes |
At the end of this course the student shall be able to: |
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describe
wireless and mobile communications networks; |
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enumerate
and compare major wireless technologies, and describe their architectures and
capabilities; |
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describe
and discuss the main functions of wireless and mobile communications;
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describe
and discuss the emerging paradigms on the integration of communications
networks;
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identify
the computational demands of the emerging wireless networks, both from the
functional and performance points of view; |
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describe
the concept of service oriented architectures and provide examples of
existing solutions;
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develop
services to support the concept of service oriented architecture for mobile
networks;
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create applications which exploit the capabilities
of wireless and mobile networks.
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identify
the relationships between the global, pervasive, computation environment and
the communications infrastructure which supports it. |
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