ECE515 Mobile & Pervasive Computing

• Broadcasting: pure push, on-demand broadcasting
• Caching & prefetchingfor mobile hosts
• Broadcast indexes
• Location management (registration and paging)
• Dominating sets-based broadcasting for ad hoc networks
• Node clustering
• Topology control
• Routing for wireless sensor networks
• Coverage and connectivity for wireless sensor networks

The course investigates basic concepts and problems related to data management in mobile computing environments. It focuses on terrestrial wireless networks.

• Cellular Networks (e.g., GSM)
• Ad Hoc Networks
• Wireless Sensor Networks

The students taking this course will:

• Know basic topics on Cellular Networks (e.g., GSM), Ad Hoc Networks, and Wireless Sensor Networks
• Be exposed to architectures for distributed processing in mobile environments (pull/push approaches, proxies, etc.)
• Understand the combination of Internet technologies and mobile computing
• Familiarize themselves with distributed (localised) algorithms such as clustering, dissemination, aggregation, data-centric networking, topology control, indexing