Course Proposal

EE206A: Mobile and Wirless Networked Computing Systems

TITLE:

Mobile Multimedia Information Systems

CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

Interdisciplinary course covering mobile computing, wireless networking, and multimedia processing techniques for computing systems capable of ubiquitous transport and processing of multimedia information. Topics include wireless and cellular fundamentals, network mobility management, low-power portable node architecture, mobile IP, wireless TCP, middleware and operating system issues, and context-aware adaptive applications.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive in-depth treatment of background material, fundamental concepts, and research challenges in computing and communication systems that are inherently characterized by mobility, wireless, low power, and multimedia. The course will expose students to physical radio layer issues all the way up to high level operating system and middleware issues, and will emphasize the interaction and trade-offs across these layers. The course will also prepare students for innovative research in this inherently interdisciplinary field that draws upon knowledge from wireless radio engineering, digital signal processing, data networking, computer architecture, and operating systems.

JUSTIFICATION FOR THE PROPOSAL:

Today there is little systematic body of knowledge to make students proficient in the fundamentals of modern information systems that are emerging through a marriage of wireless communications, mobile computing, energy efficient hardware, and multimedia processing. Such mobile multimedia information systems are expected to dramatically change the face of not just computing and communications, but also of the society at large. Although intellectual challenges are immense, the interdisciplinary nature of these systems makes it virtually impossible for students to build up the needed expertise via the existing course curriculum. The proposed course satsfies this need by taking a systems view to build student expertise while exposing them to research problems as well.

REQUIRED TEXTBOOKS:

 None - there will be a course reader consisting of papers.

RECOMMENDED TEXTBOOKS:

  Theodore S. Rappaport.
  Wireless Communications - Principles and Practice.
  Prentice-Hall, 1996.

  Vijay Garg, Joseph Wilkes.
  Wireless and Personal Communications Systems.
  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996.
Author: Mani Srivastava ( mbs@ee.ucla.edu)
Last Modified: 04/03/2001 01:03 AM