Mobile computing has emerged as one of the key new paradigms in today's world of networked computing systems. Ranging from wireless laptops to cellular smartphones, iPads, tablet PCs, WiFi/Bluetooth-enabled embedded devices, to wireless sensor networks, mobile computing has become ubiquitous in its impact on our daily lives. The debut of iPhones and iPads have created whole new categories of portable networked devices that promise exciting new applications. In this seminar, we will study the state-of-the-art in both the research and commercial communities with respect to mobile computing. We will investigate standard protocols and platforms, the capabilities of today's commercial devices, and proposed next-generation solutions. In the process, we will seek to gain an improved understanding about where the field is headed, and what are the important remaining unanswered questions.
Mobile computing devices: iPhones, Android smartphones, iPads, etc.
In this graduate seminar, we will
• explore the state-of-the-art in mobile computing research by reading, presenting and discussing selected papers, and
• design and build innovative research projects in mobile computing, covering such topics as: o new mobile computing applications, including location-aware and context-aware applications o improved networking communication protocols to support evolving needs of mobile computing applications o enhanced embedded operating systems for resource-constrained mobile computing devices o better Internet cloud services to support