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Course Overview

Course Overview

Course Overview

Course Overview

Course Overview

Course Overview

Course Overview

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Drivers of Mobile Computing

Big Machines

Big Machines

Portable Computers:
The Early Days

Today: Many “Sleek” Devices

Mobile Phone Processor Power Today Compares to Desktop PCs of the 90s

Mobile Phone Storage Today Compares
to Desktop PCs of the 1990’s

2004 Camera Phone Resolution Exceeds 2001 Digital Cameras

Yesterday’s Products = Today’s Features?

Mobile devices

Computers for the next decades?

Effects of device portability

Internet: From Humble Beginnings in 1969 ….

Internet: … slowly….

Internet: … to a global communications network in 2007

Wireless Communication:
Cellular Networks Today

Wireless Communication:
Cellular Networks Tomorrow

Evolution of Cellular Networks

Mobile communication

Wireless networks in comparison to fixed networks

Applications I

Typical application: road traffic

Applications II

Location dependent services

The Holy Grail: Universal Broadband Access

 Wireless systems:
overview of the development

Universal Broadband Access: Higher Bandwidth

Complementary access solutions for different mobility needs

TCP/IP and Mobile Computing

Well…..

Wireless access technologies: No uniform standard (similar to Ethernet) in sight

Overlay Networks - the global goal

Key features of future mobile and wireless networks

Example IP-based 4G/Next G/… network

Potential problems

Challenges

Mobile Computing is Fun