94.581: Mobile Computing (Winter 2001)

• The course is over

In the Winter 2001 term, Thomas Kunz was teaching a graduate course on Mobile Computing. As more information becomes available, it will be posted on this page.

• A funny list of irreverant cellular acronyms
• Ericsson's Blip Bluetooth base station
• "Linux joins the wireless LAN-rush"
• American Carriers Shifting Into Upgrade Mode
• Bloomberg Study: Advanced Wireless Networks May Cost $751 Billion
• Wireless Web Providers Now Avoid Comparisons with Desktops
• The Ottawa Citizen had an interesting article on WWW surfing on a cellphone, another good example what all the technology we discuss in class can be used for
• Here is a short sequence of PPT transparencies from Nitin Vaidya on how to read, write, and present papers... (postscript or HTML document)
• Plagiarism is unfortunately a not too infrequent problem in academia. I expect all submissions to clearly identify what sources/references have been used for what part of your submission. If you are unsure as to what constitutes plagiarism, please check this website.
• For those of you who are interested, here is a little fairy-tale story about how signal processing works in the GSM system (explaining, among other things, what processing is needed why). While the discussion is specific to GSM, the general ideas are quite general and applicable to many wireless communication systems.
• GSMWorld is a website with a lot of data on wireless data, some of it in the form of powerpoint presentations. These presentations are almost always concentrating on the business aspects and future predictions (which are always very promising): Mobile Data, GPRS, more GPRS, and WAP. This website also contains introductions to GPRS and WAP.
• The course webpage that one of my colleagues at Waterloo set up for a similar course. Among other things, it contains a long list of (additional) references that cover some of the topics we are discussing.
• As usual in such a course, no single textbook covers all the topics we will touch on. However, a fairly complete coverage of the course is Mobile Communications, by Jochen Schiller, Addison-Wesley 2000, ISBN 0-201-39836-2.

• Course handout as postscript file or as HTML document
• Introduction, as HTML document
• Wireless Cellular Basics, as HTML document
• AMPS and CDPD, as HTML document
• GSM and GPRS, as HTML document
• IMT-2000, as HTML document
• Wireless LANs, as HTML document
• IP and Mobile IP, as HTML document
• Routing and Ad-Hoc Networks, as HTML document
• TCP over Wireless Links, as HTML document
• Services and Service Discovery, as HTML document
• System Support for Mobile Applications, as HTML document
• Appendix, as HTML document

Thomas Kunz