Economic considerations, services, history and future trends

Systems and standards (GSM, UMTS, LTE, etc.)

Network system architecture

Cellular concept (cells, handover, roaming)

Mobile radio propagation (path loss, fading, multipath propagation)

Access techniques (FDMA, TDMA, CDMA, OFDMA)

Speech coding

Authentication, encryption and security

Intelligent network concept

Mobile internet (Java MIDlets, web services and apps for mobile applications)

A detailed list of literature will be given at the beginning of the seminar

Introduction to IoT

•   Broader IoT context

-  The beginnings of the IoT

-  The promise of IoT - defining IoT as a concept

-  Market potential of IoT

-  The current state of the market

•   Scope of IoT system

•  What technologies does IoT encompass?

•  How does IoT relate to existing enterprise IT/OT systems and business processes?

•  IoT value chain

•  Overview of typical IoT use cases IoT

Technical deep dive

•   IoT system architecture

•  End-to-end system architecture

•  IoT service pattern

•  Deployment considerations and challenges

•   IoT connectivity

•  Overview of existing IoT connectivity landscape

•  Short range (BT, Wifi, Zigbee)

•  Long range (LoRaWAN, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M)

•  Emerging technologies

•  Satellite IoT

•  Analysis of capabilities of connectivity options

•  Strategies for the right IoT connectivity choice

•  Geo-location services

•  Towards sub $1 devices

IoT platforms

•  Overview of existing IoT platform landscape

•  Analysis of typical IoT platform capabilities

•  Examples of leading commercial IoT platforms

Will be announced in the lecture / see also scrip