Open Discussion Mobile Operating Systems

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Open DiscussionMobile Operating Systems
Presenter - Bob Kinicki rek_at_cs.wpi.edu

• PEDS Seminar
• December 7, 2009

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Merging of Several Areas

• Smart Phones
• Pervasive Computing
• Mobile Operating Systems
• Sensor Networks

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Interesting Questions for PEDS

• How does this change design of these Mobile
  Operating Systems?
• How should we react with respect to research
  opportunities?
• How should we adjust our curriculum at the
  undergraduate and graduate levels?

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Android Wikipedia

• Android is a mobile operating system running on
  the Linux kernel. It was initially developed by
  Android Inc., a firm later purchased by Google,
  and lately by the Open Handset Alliance.3 It
  allows developers to write managed code in the
  Java language, controlling the device via
  Google-developed Java libraries.4

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Android R. Yang 4/14/2009
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Mobile OS

• A Mobile operating system or a Handheld operating
  system, is the operating system that controls a
  mobile devicesimilar in principle to an
  operating system such as Linux or Windows that
  controls a desktop computer.
• They are currently somewhat simpler, and deal
  more with the wireless versions of broadband and
  local connectivity, mobile multimedia formats,
  and different input methods.

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Comparing Mobile OSs

• In my thesis I will compare these operating
  systems both qualitatively and quantitatively.
  The qualitative analysis will focus on the
  different features the operating systems offer to
  enhance quality attributes that are important for
  ubiquitous computing applications.
• The most important quality attributes that have
  been listed in the table below, together with the
  most important operating systems.

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Comparing Mobile OSs

• TinyOS is not a mobile OS, but will be included
  in the comparison because its a candidate OS for
  the SM4ALL project and has in theory several
  interesting features that make it suitable for
  this application.

Symbian Windows Mobile Android iPhone OS TinyOS
Cost
Power consumption
Memory usage
Security/privacy
Networking features
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Battery Life

• Carmi Levy Published November 30, 2009
• Then she told me about battery life, and
  suddenly things weren't so lovely. Her device
  lasts for about three hours of consistent use
  before she needs to plug in. Granted, she admits
  she's a heavy user, often hammering away at her
  device as incessantly as most of us use a regular
  desktop or laptop computer during a typical work
  session.

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Smart Phone Support for Bluetooth Body Sensors

• Technologies are coming together here!
• Sensors and phones are being networked together
  in a variety of applications.