Course - Mobile, Distributed and Decentralised Technology - IMT6221
Mobile, Distributed and Decentralised Technology
About
About the course
Course content
NOTE This course is offered in the spring or autumn semester subject to students' availability. Contact course coordinator directly to confirm that the course will run in a given semester.
- Contemporary topics in mobile, distributed and decentralised computing
- Conducting research in mobile, distributed and decentralised computing
- Repeatability and Reproducibility of research results
- Distributed and Decentralised systems engineering
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technology
- Sensor integration and IoT
- Mobile and decentralised computing in limited-resource environments
- Ubiquitous computing
- Decentralised governance
- Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
Learning outcome
Skills
- Ability to write, read, and review an research application
- Working with integrated development environments to create applications that can be used for scientific research, in mobile, distributed and decentralised systems
- Analysis of the strengths and weaknesses in mobile, distributed and decentralised research
- The ability to deploy mobile, distributed and decentralised applications
Knowledge
- An expert-level knowledge of cloud computing applications and the role of mobile devices in distributed computing
- An expert-level knowledge of blockchain technologies, distributed and decentralised systems, and distributed applications
- Knowledge of the capabilities and limitation of new mobile devices, new blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, contemporary distributed systems
- Knowledge of the changes in society created by the use of mobile computing, peer-to-peer networks, distributed and decentralised computing
- Understanding of contemporary Decentralised Finance (DeFi)
General Competence
- The ability read, analyse and contribute to academic research
- The ability to communicate research results to the general public
- The ability to analyse and adjust a project based on feedback from experts and end users
Learning methods and activities
Individual project work
This course focuses on advances in mobile, distributed, and decentralized technology. It is designed to develop students' understanding of the frontier of research in decentralized computing, and it is based on individual project work.
Group work
Subject to students' availability and the number of registered students, there will be small group projects in the first half of the semester.
Further on evaluation
The course is assesed on the basis of the portfolio consisting of the project work and project report. The portfolio will be assessed for pass/fail grading. The assessment is primarily based on a research report and the deployment of a prototype system. The research report must clearly demonstrate research competence in relation to the area of study, that is, mobile, distributed, and decentralized computing. The associated developed artifact will demonstrate the core contribution of the research area selected by the student. Re-sit: Not available. The course needs to be re-taken if it fails.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Computer Science (PHCOS)
Course materials
The course material is picked based on recent research results. It includes research papers from ACM SIGCHI, IEEE MASS, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and other journals and conference papers.
Subject areas
- Informatics