Mobile and Wireless Computing

Mike Daley Mike Evans Omer Rana

http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/O.F.Rana/wireless/

Schedule

• L1 (OFR)– Setting the scene, and basic wireless

networks

• L2 (MWD)– Network topologies (wired nets) and

protocols (TCP/IP), sockets/datagrams

• L3 (OFR)– Wireless connectivity and standards

• GPRS (General Packet Radio Systems)• Bluetooth• WLANs

Schedule … 2

• L4 (OFR)– Mobile Content (Wireless App Protocol)– J2ME and the KVM

• L5/6 (MWD)– Java RMI and example

• L7/8 (OFR/MWD)– Jini and examples

• L9 (OFR)– JavaSpaces

• L10 (OFR)– Mobile Agents

Labs• There will be some labs

– Sockets– RMI– Jini– WML/WMLScript– JavaSpaces– Aglets/Voyager

• You are required to download software and try yourself - see course web site for this

• If you were thinking of buying a present for your kids -- now is a good time

http://mindstorms.lego.com/

Assumptions

• You have some knowledge of Java • You are interested in mobile computing• You have done some work in distributed

systems or computer networks before• You like to download and play with

software libraries• You are not discouraged by job losses at

Ericssons and Motorola

• You do not mind us changing lecture slots at short notice (!)

Books

• There are no books that cover ALL the topics in this course• So general rule -- don’t buy books unless

– Someone else is paying– You can’t find stuff on the Internet

• Books by O’Reilly are generally good and hands-on - various books on Distributed Java and WML/WMLScript (and XML)– http://www.oreilly.com/ – http://java.oreilly.com/

• Two books by John Wiley and Sons, Ltd– “Java in Distributed Systems’’ (Marko Boger)– “J2ME: Professional Developers Guide’’ (Eric Giguere)

• Addison Wesley’s– “Core Jini” (W. Keith Edwards)