CS 239 Nomadic Computing New Course Spring 2000 Meeting Time/Place: MW 2-4, Bolter Hall 5422 Instructor: R. Bagrodia (rajive@cs.ucla.edu), Office 3531F BH Overview In the near future, mobile and wireless access to the Internet will become the norm, rather than the exception it is today; and anytime, anywhere, on any platform access to the Internet will be commonly available. The purpose of this course is to cover a variety of topics from middleware, networking, and system software, that are likely to have a direct impact on providing this capability. Special emphasis will be placed on the ability to support applications, subject to stringent QoS requirements, as the platforms hosting the application migrates among networks and devices with dramatically different characteristics. This is an advanced graduate, seminar style course, where students are expected to be active participants. It is expected that the students have already taken CS118 and CS233A and at least one of the networking courses from the following group: CS215, CS217, CS218, or CS219. Students missing these prerequisites should consult with the instructor. The course will include guest lectures by Professors Mario Gerla, Songwu Lu, and Lixia Zhang. Topics The following is a tentative list of topics that will be covered via a mix of lectures and student papers: Middleware Infrastructure Services: CORBA, JINI, TIB, e*orb, ... State-of-the-art wireless technologies: PDAs, Bluetooth, ... Network protocols for wireless mobile networks (mobile IP, wireless TCP, ad hoc routing, WAP, ...) QoS support in heterogeneous wired/wireless networks Scalability analysis & performance prediction Handoff Issues; location tracking; predictive mobility Multicasting in mixed wired, wireless networks Security issues: user/device/application authentication, encryption, etc. Information discovery and data caching/replication/consistency Related Projects: BARWAN, wireless Andrew, Ninja, Mobiware, Odyssey, iMASH Adaptive middleware services Links Term Project Topics Class Reference Papers iMASH: Mobile Support for Heterogenous Clients Lectures Barwan Slides, Lecture 4/17/00 CORBA Concepts Slides, Lecture 4/19/00 Proxies Slides, Lecture 4/24/00 Last updated Wednesday, 26-Apr-2000 15:17:08 PDT