Mobile Information Systems
The lecture "Mobile Information Systems" focuses on the topics and issues surrounding modern mobile devices, their software and hardware and the structure of the associated networks.
Preliminary list of topics:
Overview: history & current state of mobile devices
– Hardware & related issues (power consumption)
– Software & major OSs: Android & iOS
Architecture of Mobile Networks
– 3G (UMTS) Network
– SS7 Backend Network
– Location Discovery & Queries
Service Discovery & ad-hoc networking
– „Big brother“ issues
– Decentralization/P2P
Dealing with Limited Bandwidth & Connectivity
– Distributed Filesystems (Case Study: Dropbox)
– „rsync“ rolling checksum algorithm
– Background: distributed databases (CAP theorem)
Exercises: Development of Android apps with
advanced features (P2P networking, location features,
NFC, ...) |
