| Course
Topics: |
Mobility
management, Mobile IP, hand-off, routing, multicasting, and reliable communication
in wireless networks. Data management, push-pull based data acquisition,
issues in wireless mobile systems, resource allocation, QoS issues and
multimedia transmission over wireless. Pervasive computing and information
access.
Topics
include:
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Wireless
networks
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QoS
provisioning in wireless networks
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Distributed
caches in mobile computing environments
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Distributed
wireless sensor networks
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Routing
and location independent information access
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Resource
sharing in wireless distributed systems
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Active
Networks
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Pervasive
Computing
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| Description: |
Mobile
computing has emerged as an important area of computing and communications.
This has been made possible due to the tremendous and continued growth
of wireless communications and network technology over the past decade,
providing infrastructures for anytime anywhere access to distributed computing
systems and information repositories. The mobility of users offers new
challenges to seamless connectivity in a distributed, heterogeneous network
of wire-line and wireless components. It is expected that there will be
wide-spread use of mobile systems in a vast number of diverse application
areas in the very near future.
The
objective of this course is to give an insight into the world of mobile
computing and wireless networks. Issues with regard to ubiquitous information
access from a wireless network will be discussed. This course will be useful
for technologists and researchers from industry and other organizations,
as well as graduate students desirous of acquiring adequate knowledge in
mobile computing and wireless networks.
In
addition to the topic, the course emphasizes on class participation, during
lectures, seminars and debates. The course involves writing two papers
(one individual and the other is team paper), completing a project and
defending the project work in a debate.
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| Prerequisites: |
Introductory
courses in Computer Networks/Communications and Operating Systems
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| Text
Book: |
There
is no prescribed textbook for this course
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| References: |
Published
articles from leading Journals and Conference Proceedings. Here
is the list.
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| Assessment: |
Course
grades will be based on the following:
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Class
participation : 10 %
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Students
are expected to interact actively during lectures, seminars and debates
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Term
Paper (including presentation): 30%
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You
will be required to write a paper (about 10 pages) on a specific topic
or problem, and present it to the rest of the class in a 20-minute seminar.
The paper topic will be assigned 4 weeks prior to the presentation date.
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Project
and Debate: 40% (groups of 4)
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Project
presentations will be in the form of debates. In each debate session, two
teams (four per team) will debate on conflicting issues. Project topics
will be avaialable by mid September.
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Homework/Assignment:
20%
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