Monday, February 6 th, 2012 Lecture #1 Sue Moon and Heather Haitao Zheng WST 560 Mobile Web and Applications

2 Goals of WST 560 Today's users use their mobile phones to access , news, and their social networks. Driving interests in mobile phones especially smartphones not only push for new exciting applications, but open up a new set of challenges on connectivity, privacy and security issues in mobile computing. In this course, we will be discussing recent developments in mobile systems and applications, especially those driven by smartphones. Our course will include lectures on basic materials, presentation and discussion on recent technical papers, and an interdisciplinary course project. 2

3 Heather (Haitao) Zheng MIT Tech Review’s TR-35 Award (2005) 1 of 10 Emerging Technologies by MIT Tech Review (2006) Fellow of the World Technology Network Current research projects SAFIRE : Efficient and reliable dynamic spectrum access MERCURY: Trading platforms for dynamic spectrum distribution Papyrus: A software radio platform for dynamic spectrum sharing Proactive Spectrum Access 3

TA Yoonsung Hong Office: x7748, E3-1 Rm #4424 4

5 Grading Policy Quizzes + Attendance: 15% Presentation: 10% (2% extra for the 1 st person) Mid-term: 15% Final: 15% Term Project: 45% 5

6 Lectures 21 classes for lectures = 42 papers Topics to cover – Mobile social networks – Security and privacy – Sensing and inference – Location – Energy efficiency – Networking design 6

7 Term Project 2-3 per team – 3/5 Proposal: 10% – 4/9 Progress + demo: 15% – 5/16 Final presentation + demo + report: 20% 7

8 Schedule Mon2/6 Intro Mon4/2 Wed2/8 Tutorial (I) Wed4/4 Mon2/13 Tutorial (II) Mon4/9 Project progress Wed2/15Wed4/11 Holiday (election) Mon2/20Mon4/16 Wed2/22Wed4/18 Mon2/27Mon4/23 Wed2/29Wed4/25 Mon3/5 Project proposal Mon4/30 Wed3/7Wed5/2 Mon3/12Mon5/7 Wed3/14Wed5/9 Mon3/19Mon5/14 Wed3/21Wed5/16 Final project presentation Wed3/28 10:30-Noon Wed5/23 10:30-Noon 8

9 How to read a paper by S. Keshav 9