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COMP28512: Mobile Systems (2011-2012)

This is an archived syllabus from 2011-2012

Mobile Systems
Level: 2
Credit rating: 10
Pre-requisites: COMP15111
Co-requisites: No Co-requisites
Duration: 11 weeks in Semester 2
Lectures: 10, plus a few lab support lectures
Labs: 2 hours/week
Lecturers: Barry Cheetham, Steve Furber
Course lecturers: Barry Cheetham

Steve Furber

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Timetable
SemesterEventLocationDayTimeGroup
Sem 2 Lecture 1.4 Tue 09:00 - 11:00 -
Sem 2 Lab Toot 0 Thu 09:00 - 11:00 F,G,H,I
Sem 2 Lab Toot 1 Thu 09:00 - 11:00 -
Sem 2 Lab UNIX Thu 09:00 - 11:00 -
Sem 2 w32 Lecture IT406 Thu 09:00 - 11:00 -
Sem 2 w32 Lecture IT407 Thu 09:00 - 11:00 -
Assessment Breakdown
Exam: 50%
Coursework: 0%
Lab: 50%

Themes to which this unit belongs
  • Mobile Computing and Networks

Aims

Computing is becoming increasingly mobile. This unit will give insights into the issues of mobile systems, covering mobile communications, real-time signals such as speech, video and music, codecs, and maximising battery life.

Programme outcomeUnit learning outcomesAssessment
A3Appreciate the issues that differentiate mobile from tethered systems.
  • Lab assessment
  • Examination
A5 B1 B2 B3 C3Have a working knowledge of speech, music and video codecs.
  • Lab assessment
  • Examination
A3Understand the basics of wireless communication.
  • Examination
  • Lab assessment
A2 A5 B1 B2 B3 C2 C3 C9 D3 D7 D10Appreciate the holistic nature of power-efficient system design.
  • Lab assessment
  • Examination

Syllabus

Mobile systems


Commonplace examples of mobile computing systems: - mobile phones; - MP3 players; - laptop computers; - PDAs; - GPS satellite navigation.

Real-time signals


Analogue and digital signals; - time and frequency domain representations; - sampling, aliasing, quantization; - companding; - real-time computation.

Coding, decoding and compression


GSM speech coding; - MP3 music, JPEG image and MPEG video coding & decoding; - error correcting codes; - communications coding schemes.

Mobile communication


Transmitting real-time information over wireless networks; - principles of cellular and ad-hoc networks; - Coding of multimedia signals - to increase the capacity of radio channels; - to minimise the effect of transmission errors.

Maximising battery life


May be addressed at many levels including: - chip design; - signal coding and processing; - medium access control; - transmit power control.

Reading List

Core Text
Title: Computer networks (5th edition)
Author: Tanenbaum, Andrew S. and David Wetherall
ISBN: 9780132126953
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Edition: 5th
Year: 2010