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Contents
Variable content course addressing advanced, current issues in the mobile computing domain. The topical areas vary yearly covering research questions in mobile technologies, mobile networking, applications and services in mobile networks and standardisation forums for mobile computing. The primary idea of the course is to study relevant Internet technologies and focus on the challenges and potential problems when they are used in the mobile domain. Similarly, we look at the special characteristics of the mobile domain and how to adapt the baseline Internet technologies into it. The technical topics will include mobility, security, QoS, transport, control and management, session management, service discovery and services.
The course does not focus on programming or mobile web technologies.
Requirements
Two home exams.
Prerequisites
Recommended: T-110.4100 Computer Networks.
Course material
The course will focus on latest developments in the mobile internet technologies. The course material will include latest IETF drafts and other standards proposals in additon to latest conference papers available primarily only in the web itself. Reference material will be later published in the course home pages.
Lectures
The lectures are during periods III-IV, Tuesdays at 10-12 in T2. The first set of lectures are on 17.1.--21.2.2006, the second set are on 14.3.--25.4.2006 with no lecture on 18.4.2006 due to easter-- break. Attendance is not obligatory.
| 17.1.2006 |
Introduction
Overview of wireless network communications |
|---|---|
| 24.1.2006 | Basic Mobility Concepts |
| 31.1.2006 | IP Mobility |
| 7.2.2006 | IP Quality of Service |
| 14.2.2006 | IP Security |
| 21.2.2006 | IP Control and Management |
| 14.3.2006 | IP Transport Over Wireless Links. |
| 21.3.2006 | Location protocols |
| 28.3.2006 | Discovery Protocols |
| 4.4.2006 | Session Protocols |
| 11.4.2006 | Instant Messaging and Presence |
| 25.4.2006 | Future Research Challenges |
The lecture series is webcast to Helsinki University, Tampere University of Technology and the University of Kuopio, and it is a a part of the OSCu initiative. Recorded sessions can be viewed here on Linux, Mac and Windows.
The course is intended for postgraduate students and advanced undergraduate students.
Lecture language: English. Lecturer: Docent Kimmo Raatikainen.
How to pass the course
Your course grade (1--5) is based on two home exams. To pass the exams --and to successfully follow the lectures-- you will need to read quite a lot of background material (RFCs, technical articles). Though attendance is both recommended and appreciated, you are free to attend to as few or as many lectures they want.
The course is worth 4 credits, which corresponds to approximately 100 hours of effort. 25% of this is allocated to attending to lectures --again, which you can if you want to--, 50% to reading background material and 25% is allocated to the two home exams.
Home exams
You will have approximately one month to submit each home exam. The home exam delivery is a two page essay paper with four titles each. The course is graded 1--5 based on the sum of points from the two home exams.
Home exam schedule: HE I: 30.1.--27.2.2006, HE II 27.3.--2.5.2006. Note the extended (and corrected) deadline for Home Exam II.
Hall of Fame
Students and staff of ITMC 2006 may have a look at some excellent results from Home Exam 1 (pdf). Log on with the username and password (that will be) sent to you by email from the course staff.
Course staff
Lecturer: Docent Kimmo Raatikainen.
Assistant: Robin Laurén.
Responsible professor: Antti Ylä-Jääski.
Contact email address: T-110.7110 (a) tml.hut.fi
Course IRC channel: #itmc. This channel is also used
during the lectures for taking questions from the remote audiences.
Previous courses
This is a new course in TKK. A similar course was organized earlier in University of Helsinki 2003, and another one in Petroskoi in 2004. For this edition, the content will be revised and basic material of IPSec and IPv6 will not be covered in this new course.
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