ITKS540 Introduction to Mobile Computing and Business, 5 cr

Lectures 20h. On Tuesdays 12-14 and Thursdays 8-10 starting from 9.9.2008.

September 16. and 23., and October 7. special Group discussions as a part of a lecture. Self-study material will be provided on previous Thursday.

Cancelled lectures:

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Lecture material

Lecture 1 Lecture notes

Lecture 2 (Access only from university network) Gustafsson, E.; Jonsson, A. Always best connected. IEEE Wireless Communications. Volume 10, Issue 1, 2003.

Lecture 3 Lecture notes. Group discussion topics: NGN in industrial environment, NGN in domestic environment, NGN applications with real-time requirement, Separation of services and transport, Violations for service-transport separation with the current application, Terminal mobility with heavy class mobile terminals.

Lecture 4 Introduction to IMS. Ericsson white paper.

Lecture 5 Lecture notes. Group discussion topics: What added value can IMS provide to Single-sign-on? How will device/platform diversity affect to dedicated client applications? How to controll WebServices-based applications?

Lecture 6 (Access only from university network) Borger, J. Krishnan, Y. Bass, M. Cleary, P. Kanu, I. Economics of Cellular and Wireline Voice Convergence. 12th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium, 2006. NETWORKS 2006.

Lecture 7 and 8. (Access only from university network) Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, Evaggelia Pitoura. Business models and transactions in mobile electronic commerce: requirements and properties Computer Networks, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2001. Gourp discussion topics on lecture 8: Atomicity, Concistency, Isolation, Durability and Security of mobile electronic transactions. How would dishonesty of transaction parties affect?

Lecture 9 (Access only from university network) Yamakami, T. Business Model Engineering Analysis on Mobile Client-Side Software Platform Strategies. 7th International Conference on Mobile Business, 2008. ICMB '08.

Lecture 10 Lecture notes

Self-study material for the group discussions

Group discussion 1 ITU-T Recommendation Y.2001. Read the chapters 6 and 7.

Group discussion 2 (Access only from university network) Mansutti, D.; Mathieu, M.-N.; Menez, B. A study case on user experience with IMS using instant communication services. International Conference on IP Multimedia Subsystem Architecture and Applications, 2007. Read it through to know the contect at general level.

Group discussion 3 (Access only from university network) Chapter 4. Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, Evaggelia Pitoura Business models and transactions in mobile electronic commerce: requirements and properties Computer Networks, Volume 37, Issue 2, 2001.