FIT5183 is a core unit introduced as part of the double Masters course - Master of Information Technology Systems (MInfoTechSys) in the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) for 2012, delivered only at China Southeast University (SEU), Suzhou campus.

This is a new unit associated with the double Masters course - Master of Information Technology Systems, delivered only at China SEU.

Amendment 1: Changes to this unit are introduced as a result from the review over all 2016 SEU Suzhou unit offerings. In order to align with Australia units, this SEU unit is no longer mapping to the discontinued Caulfield unit FIT5170 Programming for distributed, mobile and parallel systems. Instead, its equivalent unit offered at Caulfield campus will be FIT5046 Mobile and distributed computing systems. We therefore modified content in the following fields: UnitName, Abbreviation, UnitObjectives/Objectives, UnitContent/ASCED, UnitContent/Synopsis, Prerequisites/PreReqKnowledge, and UnitContent/PrescribedReading.

Amendment 2: Assessment structure now changed to In-semester assessment: 50%, exam (2hr): 50%.

12/01/2017: Admin - updated Chief Examiner.

15/02/2017 - Workload Requirements amended on behalf of CE. The change from labs to tutorials occurred during the 2015 revision, but had not been entered into Monatar. Error is now being fixed. Semester of implementation : S1,2017.

16/02/2017 - Added clarity to the amendment to Workload Requirements on advice from FEC Chair.

24/9/2019: Admin - adding 10 minutes reading time to the overall exam duration as per University requirements.

19/11/2020: Admin - this unit was disestablished at FEC 5/20 on 12/11/2020 as it is no longer required.

This unit is one of the six units in the Master of Information Technology Systems course delivered only at China SEU. This unit offers students the skills to become competent in modern techniques of distributed and mobile computing.

At the completion of this unit students will:

1. identify and describe different approaches and methods for building distributed and mobile computing systems;
2. evaluate several models and approaches and select suitable mobile computing solution to a particular case;
3. propose and develop a mobile or distributed system that is appropriate to a problem domain;
4. identify the current research directions in the field and their impacts.

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This unit provides a high level coverage of mobile and distributed computing. It will focus on the underlying concepts and standards of mobile computing and current technologies for mobile and distributed systems. It will discuss cellular networks, wireless networks and their standards and technologies, context-aware computing, location-awareness, wireless sensor networks, internet mobility, web services and service-oriented technology, cloud computing and current research trends and case studies.

On-campus

In-semester assessment: 50%, exam (2hr and 10 minutes): 50%.

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Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

FIT

This unit refers to the MInfoTechSys double masters only.