Who would have imagined 3-4 years ago that we would see auto-rickshaw wallahs and even vegetable vendors talking to their friends and enquiring about the latest market prices over their mobile phones!! I certainly didn’t. The situation, as of now, is such that we don’t even give a second look if we see a carpenter/car mechanic or our very own dhobi flash his newest LG/Samsung Reliance phone. Technology, they say, is the closest you can get to MAGIC these days, so very true!
The use of mobile phones is not limited to making calls and sending text messages anymore. With the advent of technologies like WAP, WAP2.0, GPRS, EDGE and hardware based technologies like Bluetooth mobile phones act as a pocket device capable of accessing the internet, sending/ receiving e-mails and share data with other compatible devices. I, being the curious cat I am, fiddle with almost every new piece of technology that comes my way, be it a new PC imaging application, a game or bluetooth, infra-red applications for my Nokia 6600. My mother thinks I’m a magician; all I am though is just a person who uses the magic to his own maximum benefit. Even when I’m not sitting on my PC I don’t need a laptop to carry around for my internet, Word, Excel, Power Point needs, I use IGO’s Quick Office on my mobile phone. I don’t need an I-Pod because I can store a decent number of songs on my 512 MB memory card on my phone. I don’t need a digital camera as the VGA camera in my phone does a pretty decent job, the image quality might not conform to a high-end digital camera’s standards but its better than a Kodak KB10 atleastJ. I don’t need to carry around floppy disks or rewritable CDs, instead I just carry my bluettoth dongle around and can print or share whatever I want trhough my mobile. There are a lot more things, of which I’m not gonna bore you with right now.
The point is mobile communication is, and can be very beneficial to anybody who wants it. Pseudo intellectuals and discerners say “a phone is supposed to make calls, and people are stupid to invest so much money on mobile phones” yeah right! So why don’t you go back to using pigeons to communicate with your loved ones haan? Keeping in touch with technology is not immoral or stupid, it’s the wisest thing one can do. Any way, we were talking about the uses of mobile communication, and the Allahabad University, many of you might not know has been carrying out may short-term and certificate courses in this area with their Center of Mobile Communication for Developing Countries(CMCDC). The CMCDC is joint venture between the
The study program in mobile communication sciences will follow an interdisciplinary approach on an academic level with the necessary critical point of view.
- Technical practical laboratory information and work as a basis
- Economical as well as social based focus in all approaches
- Management tools for work national and international companies
- Experiences in international and intercultural impacts
Technologies, applications and their social economic impacts are discussed in the environment of structural chances for developing countries especially to reduce the lack of information access in remote areas.
The course explores the dynamic shift of telecommunications to advance digital wireless technologies (voice) and the impacts on development by mobile applications (data). This course will cover an overview of the basic principal of telecommunications and a deeper view in the wireless technologies.
The objectives of the course generally
- To prepare students for the upcoming telecomm influenced society
- To provide technology oriented people for the wireless industry management
- To train experts who could work on different domains in wireless networks
The objectives of practical courses are
- Application of mobile communication in marketing and other economic affairs for the rural development
- Research projects on the application of mobile communication in developing countries and assessment of its impact with reference to social aspects
- Research in the urban, suburban and remote areas with a view to explore the adaptability and application on mobile internet for development
- Research with a view to explore the adaptability and application on mobile Internet for development of the welfare of women
- Combining current capabilities in hard- and software
- Creation and deployment of reliable, scalable and easy to use services
Duration
The duration of this course will be 4 semesters (two years) and will consist of four papers and one live project (master thesis). Students learn on 4 papers, while they prepare and present at the same time practical work, including field research.
Course structure
- Wireless Communication Concepts
This paper provides an introduction to the fundamental principals of wireless systems for the transfer of information from one point to another. The basis for designing systems to modulate, multiplex and code information for transmission over various media.
Structure:
- Basic concepts: analogue and digital, bandwidth, compression and multiplexing
- Technology fundamentals: overview of telecommunications, regulatory bodies, networks, switches telephone and data networks, access and terminal equipment networks.
- Transmission media: modes of transmission, wireless communications, satellite communication
- Principals of multiplexing, time division multiplexing (TDM), Frequency Division Multiplexing (FDM), Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) und dense Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
- Future of Voice Telecommunications: Migration from circuit to switched Technical advances, IP-based Telecommunications
- Convergence of voice and data, convergence in transmission and networks, future of enterprise Networks, VoIP
- IP fundamentals: Routing and addressing in IP networks, encapsuling application data in carrier protocols
- Wireless Communication Principles
This paper provides an introduction to the fundamental principals of wireless technology and communication
Structure:
· Basic concepts: History of wireless world, radio spectrum, cellular networks, data Services, wireless technologies and standards, security and encryption
· Cellular basics: funda
mental technologies: building a cellular system, setting frequency allocations and reuse, planning cellular coverage and capacity, sectoring cells, evaluating antenna, performance, setting up connections, achieving call set-up, handoff/handover, Roaming between providers, signalling service functions
· Concepts of GSM: Introduction, network topology of GSM, different interfaces of GSM, Components of SIM
cards
· Network Aspects: making and receiving a Call, automatic call delivery of GSM, GSM Architecture and Encryption
· Introduction of GPRS and 3G networks: introduction to GPRS Architecture, GPRS Interfaces, 3G ne
twork, typology of 3G network, architecture of 3G
· Mobile communication technology: WAP architecture, overview of WAP applications
·
Moving to third generation (3G) technologies: Converting to Wideband CDMA
· Concepts of core networks: designing circuit-switched core network infrastructures, operating System and Devices used in
- Wireless Communication Types
This paper provides an introduction to the different types of operating systems used in mobile network. It also gives an overview of different types of mobile devices used in mobile networks.
· Operating systems used in wireless networks (structure, Commands, System Resources and printing, Shells, System administration, File systems and ext processing and editors
·
Understanding of devices used in
· Operating systems, OS Communication Modules, OS memory management, OS application engine develop
ment
- Java Card Technology: based concept of Java, overview of J2MB, J2SE and J2EE, standard libraries, J2ME specifies, MIDP, GUI, overview of j2ME and J2EE applications
- Wireless Communication Commerce
This paper provides an overview of billing, marketing, and telecom regulatory policies
· Strategic planning in regulated and competitive telecommunication industries; managing and marketing a te
chnology-based business; different management and marketing approaches and their strengths and weaknesses; legal constraints; responsibilities and ethics
·
Telecom policy and regulatory bodies: introduction to international telecom regulatory bodies, functioning of standardization bodies
· International telecommunication organizations, trans-border data flow, barriers to trade in infor
mation, equipment and services, development of competition and world trade organization telecommunication agreement
· Traffic Engineering for wireless communication systems
· Billing Mediation tech
nologies: introduction to billing mediation concept, billing techniques/devices and software, introduction to CDR/IPDR, billing next generation application, concept of payment gateways
· Marketing wireless products and services of wireless marketing and its services
Multidisciplinary Work
In following areas of mobile communication the students will do their practical works. Their task is: combining the technical level with the other levels:
- Political level
Research and preparation of political decisions about infrastructure, at the national and international level of mobile communication networks
- Industrial level
Research and preparation of decisions about investments, strategic alliances and new services at the national and international level of mobile communication networks
- Ministry level
The context between mobile communication through the use and combining of interdisciplinary knowledge, investment, rules of communication, security
- Structural level
Usable rules and threats as well as principles while using regional-specific mobile communication development
- Entrepreneurs level
Specific applications according to use and succ
ess criteria under different socio-cultural conditions, e.g. designing specific mobile portals
- Strategic level
Research and preparation of decisions about infrastructure, partners and alliances at the national and international level
- System level
Analysis of the connections between mobile communication through usage and the combining of interdisciplinary knowledge
- Structural level
Development of working rules and principals through the use of regional-specific mobile communication
- Design level
Development of specific applicatio
ns according to use and success criteria under different socio-cultural conditions
Course Curricula
Overview
Sem | Course | Topic | Marks |
1. Sem | 1. | Paper 1 | 100 |
2. | Paper 2 | 100 | |
2. Sem | 3. | Paper 3 | 100 |
4. | Paper 4 | 100 | |
5. | Practical and field research | 100 | |
3. Sem | 6. | Practical in a company | 200 |
7. | Practical Application Design | 100 | |
4. Sem | 8. | Master thesis: Case study or theoretical work | 200 |
Total | 1.000 |
1.000 Marks can be given. The Degree of master will be given when the student has more than 666 marks.
Prof. Arun K. | Srivastava | Coordinator CMCD C ( |
Dr. Prahled | Kumar | Member Committee CMCDC ( |
Dr. Alok | Singh | Member Committee CMCDC ( |
Prof. Dr. Jens H. | Fischer | Coordinator CMCDC ( |
Prof. Dr. Wenzel | Matiaske | Member Committee CMCDC ( |
Prof. Dr. Uwe | Rehling | Member Committee CM CDC ( |
Allahabad/Flensburg,
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