Mobile Services

The focus of this course is to consider wide range of mobile services that go beyond conventional mobile telecom services. This take on mobile services embraces the vision of Ubiquitous computing and the Internet of Things to include a much wider range of mobile devices including: wearables, smart (access) cards or keys, supporting infrastructures or environments for mobile devices, humans as mobile hosts for devices, tiny to much larger than human body size devices.

The course focuses on focusing on the key challenges and how we overcome them for innovative mobile services, including:

• Temporal-spatial Context-awareness devices, users and services having to be aware of a changing temporal spatial context or situation use so that where and when devices are used
• Human-awareness - personalised and usable devices for mobile users
• PC or laptop or tablet design and mode of operation does not work well for some types of mobile devices. This includes:

o Energy efficiency awareness: need to minimise energy usage or restrict mobility because of frequent main power charging

o Security and privacy management of mobile devices

o Openness, heterogeneity of devices that far exceeds PC style devices in terms of the form of the devices, the types of networks, the overlapping and inadvertent connectivity and interaction etc.

The lectures follow selected chapter of the book used for the course is: Poslad S.J. (2009) Ubiquitous Computing: Smart Devices, Environments and Interaction. Wiley, ISBN ISBN-13 9780470035603.
See book Web-site: http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~stefan/ubicom/index.html

Lectures in more detail

Basics (BASE)

• Chapter 1 Basics and Vision
• 1.1 Living in a Digital World
• 1.3 Ubiquitous System Environment Interaction
• 1.4 Architectural Design for UbiCom Systems: Smart DEI Model

Smart Devices and Services (DEV)

• Chapter 3: Smart Devices and Services
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Service Architecture Models
• 3.3 Service Provision Life-cycle
• Chapter 4: Smart Mobiles, Cards and Device Networks
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Smart Mobile Devices, Users, Resources and Code
• 4.3 Operating Systems for Mobile Computer and Communicator Devices
• 4.4 Card Devices
• Chapter 5: Human Computer Interaction
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 User Interfaces and Interaction for Four Widely Used Devices: slides 5A
• Mobile Applications & Development (Not in Book)
• J2ME App development
• .NET CF App development
• SunSpot App development

Smart Environments (ENV)

• Chapter 7: Context-awareness (4 hours: slides A-C,E)
• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 Modelling Context-Aware Systems
• 7.3 Mobility Awareness
• 7.4 Spatial Awareness

Middleware (generic networked computing services)

• Chapter 11 Ubiquitous Communication
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 Audio Networks
• 11.4 Wireless Data Networks
• 11.5 Universal and Transparent Audio Video and Alphanumeric Data Network Access
• 11.6 Ubiquitous Networks (partial)
• Chapter 12 Management of Smart Devices
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 Managing Smart Devices in Virtual Environments:
• 12.2.1 Process, application, Networks
• 12.2.2,12.2.3, 12.2.4, 12.2.6, 12.2.7 FCAPS
• 12.5 Security
• Chapter 13 Ubiquitous Systems: Challenges and Outlook
• 13.5 Smart Physical Environment Device Interaction, Eco-Friendly Devices