Mobile Networks and Applications

This course covers mobile networking topics with focus on wireless networking technologies and mobile computing applications. It addresses the following standards, mostly at the physical and MAC layers levels: Bluetooth, ZigBee, WiFi, GSM, UMTS and LTE. It also touches on technologies that are part of LTE-advanced set of technologies and covers Mobile IP. From the applications side, the course gives an overview of Web Services, virtualization and cloud computing. The course includes a project on mobile app development that involves communication among mobile devices.