CS595 Pervasive Computing and Web Service (3 cr. sect. 1) -- Spring 2004

Last modified March 9, 2004

Lecture

5:00 pm - 6:15 pm, Tuesday and Thursday, 238 Stuart Building, MC

Prerequest

CS450 (Operating Systems), or CS455 (Data Communication) and CS470 (Computer Architecture), or equivalent

Contents

• General information
• Course description
• Course materials
• Lecture scripts
• Assignment
• Project
• Lecture notes
• Evaluation

All information provide here in are tentative and subject to minor change

Instructors

Professor Xian-He Sun, email: sun@iit.edu

Office Hours

3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday or by appointment

229C Stuart Building

Teaching Assistant

To be announced

Office Hours

TBA

Course Description

• Computers have become an embed intrinsic part of a sophisticated, networked, pervasive and ubiquitous computing environments around humans. Pervasive Computing is a new trend in computing creating a ubiquitous environment that combines processors and sensors with network technologies (wireless and otherwise) and intelligent software to create an immerse environment to improve life. Some examples of popular and successful pervasive devices are cellular phones, pagers, televisions, wristwatches and toasters. Known efforts in developing distributed, ubiquitous environments include Oxygen, Aura, access grid, grid computing, and web service. Pervasive computing is in a unique position to facilitate human-computer interaction, to integrate software with hardware, and to spin off new human-centric applications. Mobility of computing and communication, distributed information retrieval and understanding are examples of software infrastructures that are key aspects of pervasive computing. The extensive use of image processing and computational biology in medical engineering is an important example of pervasive computing applications.
  
• This course covers general issues of Pervasive Computing and Communication. We first study general issues of middleware and middleware development, which include Grid, P2P, Agents, Mobility, Fault Tolerance, Adaptive, QoS, Web Service, as well as Pervasive and Ubiquitous techniques. This class is a research seminar oriented class. It will not follow any particular textbook. Instead, we will discuss current developments and research issues of Middleware and Pervasive Computing. The newly purchased 64-node SUN Compute Farm, 14-node IBM cluster, a large access grid node, workstations and PDAs will be used in this class. Class presentation and term project are required. Guest lectures will be given by scientists from Argonne, Lucent Technologies and other institutions to cover the state-of-the-art of current developments

Topics include:

• Introduction of Middleware
• Introduction of Pervasive Computing and Communication
• Case studies
• Research projects at IIT and other institutions
• Current Issues of Pervasive Computing




Course Materials

References

Current Papers

Helpful References

Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman
The Grid 2: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, ISBN 1-55860-933-4, 2004 (see here for additional resources related to the text.)

Jochen Burkhardt (Editor), Horst Henn, Stefan Hepper, Klaus Rindtorff, Thomas Schaeck
Pervasive Computing: Technology and Architecture of Mobile Internet Applications
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-72215-1

Steve Graham, Simeon Simeonov, Toufic Boubez, Glen Daniels, Doug Davis, Yuichi Nakamura, Ryo Neyama
Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
ISBN: 0672321815, 2001

On-Line Resources

NSF Middleware Initiative Web site
ACM Middleware Conference Web site
Grid Computing Web site
Parallel Processing Web site
IEEE Distributed System Journals Web site
IEEE Pervasive Computing Journal Web site
Pervasive Computing Research Web site





Lecture Scripts

• Introduction of Pervasive Computing and Web Service
• Research Topic and SCS research
• Feb. 5, 2004, Grid and Web Service , Guest Lecture by Dr. Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory
• Feb. 12, 2004, Pervasive Computing at Motorola , Guest Lecture by Ms. Nitya Narasimhan, Motorola Labs
• Feb. 17, 2004, Pervasive Communication , Guest Lecture by Mr. Vijay K. Gurbani, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs Innovations
• March 4, 2004, Research at Future Laboratory , Guest Lecture by Mr. Michael E. Papka, University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory
• Mobility and Context Awareness
• Case studies
• Current issues of Pervasive Computing





Homework Assignment

• Assignment 0: Read "Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges", by M. Satyanarayanan, IEEE Personal Communications , Auguest, 2001.
• Assignment 1: Read "Middleware Challenges Ahead", by Kurt Geihs, IEEE Computer , June, 2001.
• Assignment 2: Read "Funding the Computing Revolution's Third Wave", by John Backus, Communication of ACM , Nov, 2001.
• Assignment 3 (Due March 9, 2004)
• Assignment 4 (Due March 30, 2004)
• Assignment 5





Term Project

Project Guideline
Suggested Projects




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Evaluation

• 50% -- Homework and Programming Assignment, class participation
• 50% -- Term Project