Mobile Application Development

Project
MTAT.03.266

Fall 2018

Satish Srirama
[email protected]
 Course Purpose
• Practice the mobile application development
• Apply well-known techniques to develop
applications for the mobile devices
• Glance of research at Mobile & Cloud Lab

• https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2018/MADP/fall

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 Questions
• Have you ever programmed for mobile devices?
– This course assumes you have experience with at least
one mobile technology
– Or you have taken MTAT.03.262 Mobile Application
Development course
• Which mobile platforms have you used already?
• How comfortable you are with programming?
– Java ?
• External APIs?
– Web programming?
• Have you heard of cloud computing?
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 Related Courses
• MTAT.03.262 Mobile Application Development (3
ECTS)
– Fri. 14.15 - 18.00, J. Liivi 2-122
• MTAT.03.280 Mobile and Cloud Computing
Seminar (3 ECTS)
– Wed. 16.15 - 18.00, Ülikooli 17 - 218
• MTAT.08.036 Distributed Data Processing on the
Cloud (6 ECTS)
– Fri. 12.15 - 14.00 - J. Liivi 2-122
• MTAT.08.027 Basics of Cloud Computing (3 ECTS)
– Spring 2019
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 Grading
• No written exam
• Just deliver a project
– Max 3 persons per group
• Activities
– Design the application
– Develop using the platform of your choice;
Android is preferred
– Deliver the project with detailed reports

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 To pass
• One must attend 80% of the sessions
• Submission of project report
• Final presentation and demonstration
• Max 5 min Video which will be uploaded to
youtube
• Source code properly managed

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 Grading - progress
• Prototype 1 (20%)
– Presentation (5%)
– Progress (10%)
– Punctuality (5%)
• Prototype 2 (20%)
– Split same as Prototype 1
• Final Presentation (60%)
– Presentation (10%)
– Demo (20%)
– Report (10%)
– Video/Poster (10%)
– Managed Source (10%)
• Bonus – People’s Choice (5%)
– If more than 6 groups

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 Outline
• Mobile Application Development
• Introduction to the projects
• General discussion and forming groups

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 Lecture 1

MOBILE APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT

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[Tomi T Ahonen]

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 Popular consumer mobile applications
• Location-based services (LBSs)
– Deliver services to users based on his location
• Mobile social networking
– Most popular social networking platforms have
apps for mobiles
• Mobile commerce
– An extension of e-commerce
• Mobile payment
– Near field communication (NFC) payment
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 Popular consumer mobile applications
- continued
• Context-aware services
– Context means person's interests, history,
environment, connections, preferences etc.
– Proactively serve up the most appropriate
content, product or service
• Mobile instant messaging (MIM)
– Skype for mobiles
• Mobile e-mail
• Mobile video
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 Variety of languages and platforms to
choose from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_application_development
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system
 Popular platforms – Market share

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system

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 The devices we use

http://mc.cs.ut.ee

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 GENERAL TOPICS OF INTEREST

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 Mobile Web Services
• Provisioning of services from the smart
phones
• Invocation of web services from smart phones
• Mobile web service discovery
• Addressing mobiles in 3G/4G networks
• Push notification mechanisms
• Mobile positioning
– Indoor and Outdoor
{srirama, chang}@ut.ee,
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 Mobile Cloud Computing
• One can do interesting things on mobiles directly
– Today’s mobiles are far more capable
– We can even provide services from smart phones
• However, some applications need to offload
certain activities to servers
– Processing sensor data
• Resource-intensive processing on the cloud [Flores &
Srirama, JSS 2014; Flores et al, IEEE Communications 2015]
– To enrich the functionality of mobile applications
– Task delegation and code offloading

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 Internet of Things (IoT)
• “The Internet of Things allows people and
things to be connected Anytime, Anyplace,
with Anything and Anyone, ideally using Any
path/network and Any service.” [European
Research Cluster on IoT]
• More connected devices than people
• Cisco believes the market size will be $19
trillion by 2025
{srirama, chang, liyanage}@ut.ee
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 IoT - Scenarios
• Environment Protection
• Smart Home
• Smart Healthcare
• Smart Agriculture

[Kip Compton]
[Perera et al, TETT 2014]
[http://www.libelium.com/improving-banana-crops-production-and-agricultural-sustainability-in-colombia-using-sensor-networks/ ]
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Internet of Things – Challenges
How do we
[Chang et al, ICWS 2015] How to provide communicate
energy efficient automatically?
services?
Sensors Tags Mobile Things

[Chang et al, SCC 2015;

Appliances & Facilities
Liyanage et al, MS 2015]

How to interact
with ‘things’
directly?

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 Cloud-based IoT

Proxy Storage
Remote Cloud-based
processing
Processing

Connectivity nodes &

Embedded processing

Sensing and smart devices

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 Research focus in IoT
• We have established IoT and Smart Solutions
Lab with Telia company support
• Interesting topics
– Discovery of IoT devices
– Working with IoT based devices
– Study of available IoT platforms
• Amazon IoT
• Open IoT
• IoT-based smart cities
{srirama, chang, jaks}@ut.ee
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 IoT Data Processing on Cloud
• Enormous amounts of unstructured data
– In Zetabytes (1021 bytes) by 2020 [TelecomEngine]
– Has to be properly stored, analysed and interpreted and
presented
• Big data acquisition and analytics
– Is MapReduce sufficient?
• MapReduce is not good for iterative algorithms [Srirama et al, FGCS 2012]
– IoT mostly deals with streaming data
• Message queues such as Apache Kafka can be used to buffer and feed
the data into stream processing systems such as Apache Storm
• Apache Spark streaming
• Edge analytics

{srirama, jakovits, alo.peets}@ut.ee

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 Issues with Cloud-centric IoT
• Latency issues for applications with sub-second
response requirements
• Certain scenarios do not let the data move to cloud
• Fog computing [Chang et al, AINA 2017; Mass et al, SCC 2016]
– Processing across all the layers, including network
switches/routers
• Mist computing
– Processing at the edge devices
– Dynamic provisioning of a platform for process execution
[Liyanage et al, PDCAT 2016]
• E.g. Android-ported Activiti BPM engine (http://activiti.org)
• Edge process management

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 Ongoing Research in Fog Computing
• Mobility, task migration, discovery, scalability and
containerisation

[Soo et al, IJMCMC 2017]

• QoE-aware application placement across Fog

topology [Mahmud et al, JPDC 2018]
• Indie Fog [Chang et al, IEEE Computer 2017]
– System architecture for enabling Fog computing with
customer premise equipment
QoE – Quality of Experience {srirama, chang, jaks}@ut.ee
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 Research Roadmap – IoT & Fog
Computing
Distributed data processing Cloud
on the Cloud
E.g. MapReduce, Spark

Distributed data processing

across the Cloud and Fog layers Core Network
E.g. Personalized data, privacy etc.

Fog topology management

and scheduling the tasks
E.g. tasks run across the fog topology
Edge Nodes
such as stream data processing, smart Fog
streetlights etc.

Edge analytics
E.g. filter, error detection, Gateways
consolidation etc.

Intelligent sensors End points

E.g. vehicular networks
{srirama, chang, jaks, alo.peets}@ut.ee
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 ? ?

email: [email protected]

WE ALWAYS WELCOME NEW IDEAS!

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 Course Schedule
• Today we introduce you the projects
– Choose your project by 17th Sep 2018
• Lecture 2 (20.09)
– Presentation by students about their topics
– Deliver a preliminary report of the project
• Meaningful report explaining (architecture, design,
similar solutions etc.)
• Remaining schedule will be notified later

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 Project selection
• Projects are available at
https://courses.cs.ut.ee/2018/MADP/fall/Main/
Projects
• Responsible persons
– Satish Srirama (srirama AT ut DOT ee)
– Chii Chang (chang AT ut DOT ee)
– Mohan Liyanage (liyanage AT ut DOT ee)

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 [email protected]

THANK YOU

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