A seminar that provides computing systems graduate students with a look at the intersection between mobile computing, mobile telephony, and wireless networking.
The project presentations will take place on May 4 and May 6. Final project reports are due May 11.
More project ideas and a sign-up page.
Added a partial list of potential projects.
Copies of the Rednet paper for next week's class are available outside my office door.
In moving the class to Mondays, we lost a day (February 16th) and gained a day (May 11). The course plan has been adjusted to reflect the change.
The class has been rescheduled to Mondays 1:30-3:30 in 310 Soda.
Register your e-mail address using this
questionnaire.
A convergence of techonologies is occurring right now. The technologies behind wide-area wireless networking and mobile telephony infrastructures are in the process of merging to provide an infrastructure that offers ubiquitous access to information, anywhere, anyplace, and anytime.
However, the process is far from over. The two classes of infrastructure have very different design philosophies and requirements; merging them requires a reexamination and reevaluation of the requirements. In addition, while there exists a rich body of knowledge associated with the engineering of wide-area wireless infrastructure, researchers are just beginning to explore the issues associated with utilizing this infrastructure to provide new applications that can exploit mobility and location information.
Today, there exists no well-defined body of knowledge a student
must learn to become proficient in wireless communications and mobile
information systems. This is an emerging field, and builds on radio
engineering, data communications, computer networks, distributed
systems, information management, and applications. This course will
follow an interdisciplinary "tall thin" approach, making the
physical limitations of communications technologies understandable to
the computer scientist, while making the system architecture and
applications accessible to the electrical engineer. In the long
tradition of advanced graduate courses at Berkeley, this one will
combine extensive reading and in-class discussion of the research
literature with in-depth independent research projects of the
students' own choosing.
The material in the course, drawn mainly from the research literature, will be presented in a bottom-up fashion. Communications technologies are presented first, to form the foundation for further discussion. This is followed by discussions of mobile telephony systems, mobile IP, issues regarding privacy, authentication, and security, power management, environmental awareness, ubiquitous computing, and a history of the approaches to building mobile applications.
Class Participation and Presentations: 60%
Independent Research Project: 40%
Students are expected to attend all classes and participate in class discussions. One or two students will be responsible for leading discussion in each class. One student will act as a scribe and take notes of the discussion.
Students will responsible for a class project. The project may be based on the student's own research, however all projects must have applicability to the course. Here is a list of potential projects.
Sign up for a project using this page.
Handouts are available on the web or outside my office door (675 Soda).
Sign up for a project using this page.