Two-Day CEP Course on

Mobile Internet

Wireless Network Architectures and Applications

January 13-14, 2003

Introduction

With the increasing proliferation of wireless devices, there is a significant need for mechanisms to connect such devices to the Internet and enable them to serve as clients in traditional Internet applications.

However, directly porting existing applications for use with such clients and across wireless networks is extremely inefficient. This is because (i) some of the assumptions in traditional networking protocols do not hold in wireless networks, and (ii) the capabilities of client devices, such as battery power, display size, are very different from the traditional PC clients.

Hence designers of Internet-based applications can no longer be agnostic of the network characteristics or the end-user device capabilities. These aspects need to be kept in mind while designing applications for 3G networks.

Course Plan

The proposed short-term course on Mobile Internet is intended to bring out the issues in designing applications for mobile devices. The course will cover the basics of medium access in wireless networks, network architectures for roaming and client mobility, and end-to-end issues in application design. Emphasis will be given to detailed understanding of the underlying design decisions in selected wireless network protocols, architectures and applications.

Course Duration and Venue

The course duration is two days: Jan 13-14, 2003. Each day will consist of several lecture sessions and will end with an open session to discuss ideas and issues identified by the audience.

Venue: Auditorium, First Floor in the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology, IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai.

Course Schedule

(Daily 9:30 am to 5:30 pm)

FIRST DAY 13 Jan, 2003
09:00 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 11:15	Introduction and overview · Wireless access technologies: Ø GSM, IEEE 802.11, CDMA · Mobility management and routing: Ø GPRS, Mobile IP · End-to-end and application issues: Ø TCP, WAP, Agents
11:30 – 13:00	Medium access in 802.11 wireless LANs
	L u n c h B r e a k
14:00 – 15:30	802.11 and Mobile IP roaming
15:45 – 17:00	TCP/IP over wireless environments
17:00 – 17:30	Discussion
SECOND DAY 14 Jan, 2003
09:30 – 10:00	GSM air interface
10:00 – 11:15	GPRS network architecture
11:30 – 13:00	Wireless application protocol
	L u n c h B r e a k
14:00 – 15:30	Emerging trends – Adhoc networks
15:35 – 17:00	Emerging trends – Mobile agents
17:00 – 17:30	Open House
	Course Conclusion

Teaching Faculty

The course will be conducted by: Prof. Sridhar Iyer

Prof. Sridhar Iyer has been a faculty at IIT Bombay for more than 4 years. He has done his B.Tech, M.Tech, and Ph.D from IIT Bombay and he has also been a faculty at IIT Guwahati for 2 years.

His current research interests are in the areas of: Wireless LANs, Cellular and Ad-hoc Networking and Mobile Applications.

Who Should Attend

Application designers, network protocol engineers, teachers, and those wanting to get exposure to the area of Mobile Internet will be most benefited by this course.

Course Fee

The course fee per participant is Rs. 2,500/- for academic institutions and Rs. 5,000/- for others. (*Academic participants must send a certificate of affiliation with academic / govt. R&D institute to avail the discounted rate.)

Each applicant will receive lecture notes, the cost of which is included in the registration fee. This fee also includes refreshments and working lunch during the course days.

How to Apply

Those desirous of attending the course can mail the attached registration from duly filled up to the Coordinator, along with the course fee in form of a demand draft drawn in favour of:

“Registrar, IIT Bombay, (CEP Account)”.

Kindly note that no income tax is to be deducted at source from the course fee payments as IIT Bombay is exempted from the same.

Last date for receipt of application: 30 DEC 2002.

Address all communication to:

Prof. Sridhar Iyer

KR School of Information Technology

Indian Institute of Technology

Powai, Bombay- 400 076.

Tel. : +91-22-2576 7436

Fax : +91-22-2572 3707

Email : sri@it.iitb.ac.in

R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M

Two-day Certification Course on

Mobile Internet

January 13-14, 2003

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