Mobile and Adaptive Systems

Introduction and overview; properties of wireless; PANs; LANs and WANs: Ad-hoc and infrastructure networks; physical constraints and limitations (transmission and reception); network structures and architectures; including hand-off and mobility support at the physical/link level; example technologies at the physical/link layers: PANS - bluetooth; LANs - IEEE802.11; HiperLAN; basic GSM and GPRS network structures and protocol architectures; next generation wireless overview including UMTS; IMT-2000 and W-CDMA; mobile IP: mobile IPv4 and mobile IPv6; problems with routing; quality of service and security; overview of use of intelligence in mobile systems and power management issues; file systems: CODA and the like and mobile infrastructure support.

Introduction and overview; properties of wireless; PANs; LANs and WANs: Ad-hoc and infrastructure networks; physical constraints and limitations (transmission and reception); network structures and architectures; including hand-off and mobility support at the physical/link level; example technologies at the physical/link layers: PANS - bluetooth; LANs - IEEE802.11; HiperLAN; basic GSM and GPRS network structures and protocol architectures; next generation wireless overview including UMTS; IMT-2000 and W-CDMA; mobile IP: mobile IPv4 and mobile IPv6; problems with routing; quality of service and security; overview of use of intelligence in mobile systems and power management issues; file systems: CODA and the like and mobile infrastructure support; Adaptive and re-configurable systems; mobile multimedia and its relationship to proxying; context sensitive applications; ubiquitous computing; pervasive computing and ambient networking; overlay networks and vertical hand-offs; programmable networking and applications for mobile systems; code mobility and control/signalling