OVERVIEW

The lectures are aimed to provide basic elements for designing and developing multimedia apps for the future Internet.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course will aim to gain experience through the implementation of some components of a multimedia system with particular reference to those for mobile networks such as modern smartphones or those related to so-called "Internet of Things": the Apps. The issues addressed will cover the representation, processing and retrieval of multimedia data such as sound, music, graphics, images and video, but also localization or information from sensors such as the accelerometer, compass and so on. In order to achieve the modern Apps. At the same time, it will be presented the main architectural features of modern telecommunications networks in their progress towards the Internet of the future: integration between fixed and mobile networks, separation of data transport and control and network management, virtualization functions network, flexibility, programmability, energy efficiency.

TEACHING METHODS

Traditional lessons and practical exercices.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Fundamentals of mobile radio networks, elements of signal and data processing, Android operative system, hardware architecture of a mobile smart device, the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). Design and development of Android software modules for signal processing and transmission between Android devices.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

• A.B. Carlson, P.B. Crilly and J.C. Rutlege,  “Communication Systems”, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2002
• A. V. Oppenheim, R. W. Schafer, “Elaborazione Numerica dei Segnali”, Franco Angeli
• J. Kurose, K. Ross, “Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach”, 6/E, Addison-Wesley
• S. Tarkoma, M. Siekkinen, E. Lagerspetz, Y. Xiao, "Smartphone Energy Consumption, Modeling and Optimization", Cambridge University Press, 2014
• http://developer.android.com/index.htm
• http://www.sprik.it/guida/Android4_2.pdf
• Additional material will be provided by the lecturers

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

IGOR BISIO (President)

RAFFAELE BOLLA (President)

FRANCO DAVOLI

FABIO LAVAGETTO

LESSONS

LESSONS START

See the Calendar on the web site of the Polytechnic School of the University of Genoa.

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral presentation.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Presentation of a project developed by the student.

Exam schedule