Course number:	CEITpt-3.09
Course:	Mobile Computing
Type:	Vorlesung
Specialization area:	Mobile Networks
SPPW:	1
ECTS-Credits:	2.50
Instructor:	Professor Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Helmut Wöllik
Course ID:	MC
Semester:	WS 2011
Semester of degree program	3
Number of groups	1
Language of instruction:
Curriculum version:	2008

Description:
Definitions of mobility (device, user, service)

Begriff Mobile Computing
Pervasive Computing
Ubiquitous Computing
Nomadic Computing
Personal Computing
Handheld Computing
Wearable-Computing

Mobile Computing principles
Context-Awareness
Location Based Systems

Requirements of the hardware in mobile systemes
Processors
Sensors (incl. GPS)
Energy storage (Battery, Energy-Harvesting)
Displays

GPS and general localization principles

Operating systems in current mobile systems (Smart Phones and PDA):
Blackberry/RIM
Symbian
Windows Mobile/Windows Phone
Android
iPhone OS

Current integrated development environments (IDEs)


Aims:
knowledge about design of hw/sw, requirements, programming of mobile systems, actually smart phone and PDAs, extended to Android and Apple iPhone.

Previous knowledge:
Informatics
Network Engineering
Programming in Java
IDE Eclipse

Method of instruction:
Lecture with demonstrations
practical tutorials in the laboratory

Assessment:
written exam
small project work, report of the tutorial

Literature:
Jörg Roth: Mobile Computing
Mischa Schwartz: Mobile Wireless Communications

Remarks: