Teachers
Armir Bujari
Dipartimento di Informatica - Scienza e Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Bologna
armir.bujari[at]unibo.it
ING-INF/05

Claudio Enrico Palazzi 
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Padova,
cpalazzi[at]math.unipd.it
INF/01

Aim
The exponential growth of connected devices, big data and cloud computing is creating an hyper-connected world, fostering innovative use cases, opportunities and challenges in our society and daily lives. The successful advent of this hyper-connected scenario depends on the capability to integrate technologies such as Internet of Things, Mobile-to-Mobile communication, connected vehicles/drones, cloud computing, edge computing, data gathering/dissemination and social networks. This course discusses various case studies in this field in order to understand its (interdisciplinary) research potentiality.

Syllabus
- Overview and taxonomy
- Mobile-to-Mobile communication and services
- Vehicular/Flying Networks
- Pervasive data gathering and dissemination
- Open discussion about case studies

Introductory readings
The following references are intended only to provide an idea about the subject through a quick look to the reported use cases and are not to be considered as a reading assignment:
M. Settembre, “Towards a hyper-connected world”, in Proc. of the 15th International Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS), Rome, Italy, Oct 2012.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6381667
“5G Services and Use Cases” – 5G Americas White Paper, Nov 2017
https://www.5gamericas.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/5G_Service_and_Use_Cases__FINAL.pdf

Course requirements
None

Examination modality
None

Course material, enrollment and last minute notifications
Made available by the teacher at this Moodle address

Schedule
30 Nov 2020, 10:30-13:30
01 Dec 2020, 10:30-13:30

Location
Given the restrictions related to the COVID-19 emergency, the class will be offered only online through ZOOM link.