CSC 590: Mobile Computing

Not Teaching This Course This Semester
1432-1433 Second Semester
CSC 590: Mobile Computing, 3 credit hours
Time: Section 1 (Male) 8:00 A.M. – 11:00 A.M., every Monday
Section 2 (Female) 01:00 P.M. – 04:00 P.M., every Monday
Date : 05-03-1433– 16-07-1433 H.
Location: Room
Instructor: Dr. Iehab AL-Rassan, office phone: [phone], email: [e-mail]
Text book: Umar, A., "Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications: Applications,Networks, Platforms, Architectures, and Security”, NGE Solutions, July 2004.
Office Hours: Monday 11 A.M –1 P.M, (This might change – always check my home page first)
Course website :
Section 1 (Male) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KSUcsc590-2-33MP/
Section 2 (Female) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KSUcsc590-2-33F/
 
Course Objectives:
This course presents a broad overview of mobile computing and wireless communications. Instead of one narrow topic, this course covers the major building blocks (mobile applications, mobile computing platforms, wireless networks, architectures, security, and management) of mobile computing and wireless communications. The course starts with a discussion of m-business and m-government initiatives and examines mobile computing applications such as mobile messaging, m-commerce, M-portals, mobile agents, and sensor applications. The role of wireless Internet and Mobile IP is reviewed and the mobile computing platforms are examined with a discussion of wireless middleware, wireless gateways, mobile application servers, WAP, i-mode, J2ME, BREW, Mobile Internet Toolkit, and Mobile Web Services. The wireless networks are discussed next with a review of wireless communication principles, wireless LANs with emphasis on 802.11 LANs, Bluetooth, wireless sensor networks, UWB (Ultra Wideband), cellular networks ranging from 1G to 5G, wireless local loops, FSO (Free Space Optics), satellite communications, and deep space networks. The course concludes with a review of the architectural, security, and management/support issues and their role in building, deploying and managing wireless systems in modern settings. A term paper and project will help cement the acquired theoretical concepts.
Suggested text books and reference material:
1.      Umar, A., "Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications: Applications, Networks, Platforms, Architectures, and Security”, NGE Solutions, July 2004.
2.      Selected papers
Prerequisite: CSC 502, CSC 523
You are strongly expected to have basic knowledge of the subjects of Computer Operating Systems, Object Oriented Programming , Computer Networks and Computer Architecture.
1.      Assignments
       You have to post one question and its answer on the course website after every lecture. Also, you are required to evaluate someone else’s posted question and its answer from the previous lecture, giving score out of 5.
 Some exercises from the text book. 　
2.      Term Paper
One page proposal of the term paper is due on the third week.
A term paper in the area of mobile computing will be due on the week after the midterm. Topics such as survey and analysis of mobile computing applications and platforms are expected.
3.      Term Project
One page proposal of the term project is due on the second week after the midterm.
A term project will be required in one of the Mobile Computing concepts. Student project may be building a WAP application or a webservice application.
Grading Policy
10% Assignments
20% Term Paper
20% Term project
25% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
Lecture Schedule

Week starts in	Topics
05-03-1433	Introduction and the Big Picture (Ch.1)
12-03-1433	Mobile Computing Applications to Support M-Business and M-Government (Ch.2)
19-03-1433	Wireless Internet, Mobile IP, and the Wireless Web (Ch.3), Term paper proposal is due
26-03-1433	Mobile Computing Platforms, Wireless Middleware, WAP, imode, VoiceXML (Ch.4)
03-04-1433	Wireless Communication Fundamentals (Ch. 5)
10-04-1433	Wireless LANs and IEEE 802.11 LANs (Ch. 6)
17-04-1433	Midterm exam
24-04-1433	WPANs, Bluetooth, UWB, Sensor Networks (Ch. 7) Term paper is due
01-05-1433	Term paper presentation
08-05-1433	Spring Break Recess
15-05-1433	Cellular Networks ranging from 1G to 5G with emphasis on 2G, 2.5G, and 3G (Ch. 8) , Term project proposal is due
22-05-1433	Fixed Wireless Networks, Wireless Local Loops (WLLs), Satellite Communications (Ch. 9)
29-05-1433	Special Topics in Wireless Networks: Adhoc Networks, FSO,Flash OFDM, sensor networks (Ch.10)
07-06-1433	Wireless Architectures and Traffic Engineering (Ch. 11)
14-06-1433	Wireless Security (Ch. 12)
21-06-1433	Presentation of term project
28-06-1433	Final Exam