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Mobile Systems

With Yazid Hamdi and Greg Hartman

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

—Alexander Graham Bell

So, what did Alexander Graham Bell know, anyway? Mobile systems, including and especially phones, are ubiquitous in our world today. Besides phones, they include trains, planes, and automobiles; they include ships and satellites, entertainment and personal computing devices, and robotic systems (autonomous or not); they include essentially any system or device that has no permanent connection to a continuous abundant power source.

A mobile system has the ability to be in movement while continuing to deliver some or all of its functionality. This makes dealing with some of its characteristics a ...

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