COURSE DESCRIPTION:

     The desire for ubiquitous access to information while "on the move" characterizes an entirely new computing paradigm, called "mobile wireless computing", in the new millennium. This emerging field has the potential to dramatically change the society as users become untethered from their information sources and communication media. The driving forces are the wide availability of hand-held devices (laptop/palmtop computers, pocket PCs,
PDAs, etc.), rapidly emerging next generation (3G/4G) wireless systems such as UMTS, IMT-2000, wireless Internet, as well as the tremendous advent of wireless access technologies like GSM/GPRS. Cdma2000, PCS1900, wireless LANs, Bluetooths, and so on.
     To support multimedia (audio, video, text) traffic over next generation wireless networks and to provide global seamless roaming capability is, however, an extremely challenging task. Killer applications include news-on-demand, video-on-demand, web browsing, traveler information, health monitoring, or tele-medicine services over wireless to the mobile users. Besides efficent management of scare resources like wireless bandwidth, there exist numerous mobility-induced networking issues that need to be solved. For example, dynamic network topology management, location (mobility) management, wireless data networking, QoS provisioining, mobile Internet architectures/protocols, mobile databases, disconnections handling, or mobile data security are some of these important problems.
     This tutorial aims at providing a guided tour to the emerging solutions for location management, bandwidth management, wireless multimedia networking, call admission control and QoS provsioning in next generation wireless systems.

 AUDIENCE:

     This tutorial is intended for computer professionals, telecommunication engineers, researchers, educators, and students interested in the state-of-the-art topics on the cutting-edge technology of wirelessmobile computing and networking.
      The level of presentation will be moderate -- good knowledge of computer systems/networks is required, some background of wireless communication will be helpful but not required.

 ABOUT SAJAL K.DAS:

     Dr. Sajal K. Das is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and also the Founding Director of the Center for Research in Wireless Mobility and Networking (CReWMaN) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). His current research interests include resource and mobility management in wireless networks, mobile and pervasive computing, wireless multimedia and QoS provisioning, sensor networks, mobile Internet protocols, distributed processing and grid computing. He has published over 250 research papers, directed numerous funded projects, and holds 5 US patents in wireless mobile networks. He received the Best Paper Awards in ACM MobiCom'99, ICOIN'01, ACM MSWIM'00, and ACM/IEEE PADS'97. Dr. Das is also a recipeint of UTA's Outstanding Faculty Research Award in Computer Science in 2001 and 2003, and UTA's College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award in 2003.
      He serves on the Editorial Boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Parallel Processing Letters, Journal of Parallel Algorithms and Applications. He served as General Chair of IEEE PerCom'04, ICNDS'04, CIT'03 and IEEE MASCOTS'02, ACM WoWMoM'00-02; General Vice Chair of PerCom'03, ACM MobiCom'00 and HiPC'00-01; Program Chair of IWDC'02, WoWMoM'98-99; TPC Vice Chair of ICPADS'02, IEEE ICC'03; and as TPC member of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences. He is the Vice Chair of IEEE TCPP and TCCC Executive Committees and on the Advisory Boards of several companies.
     Prior to 1999, Dr. Das was a professor of computer science at Univeristy of North Texas where he twice (1991 and 1997) received the Student Association's Honor Professor Award for best teaching and scholarly research. He received B.Tech. degree in 1983 from Calcutta University, M.S. degree in 1984 from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and PhD degree in 1988 from the University of Central Florida, Orlando, all in Computer Science.

 ABOUT AMIYA BHATTACHARYA:

     Dr. Amiya Bhattacharya is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the New Mexico State University (NMSU). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering in 2002 from the University of Texas at Arlington, where he was a recipient of the Texas Telecommunication Engineering Consortium Fellowship and the 2002 Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. He won the ACM MobiCom'99 Best Student Paper Award for his paper that was also ranked as the best paper. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering in 1987 from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, India, and his Masters degree in Computer Science in 1991 from the University of California, San Diego. Prior to joining NMSU, he conducted research at Nokia Research Center and at the Arizona State University.
     Dr. Bhattacharya's primary research focus is in the principles of mobile computing and complexity of designing and modeling the protocols for mobile wireless networks. His current interests spans over both wireless infrastructure and ad hoc networks, sensor networks, wireless Internet protocols and mobile multimedia. He serves as the TPC member of the IEEE International Workshop on Online Algorithms for Mobile Wireless Computing and Networking and the ACM Joint Workshop on Foundation on Mobile Computing (DIAL M - POMC).