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Mobility and Personal Computing

Mobility and Personal Computing. Michael Barker, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Technology Officer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Environment. Mixture of communities Residential students Off-campus students Privileged access workers, onsite and remote

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Mobility and Personal Computing

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  1. Mobility and Personal Computing Michael Barker, Ph.D. Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief Technology Officer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  2. The Environment • Mixture of communities • Residential students • Off-campus students • Privileged access workers, onsite and remote • Non-privileged access workers, onsite and remote • Guests • Mixture of contexts • “Academic Use” – e.g., classrooms, laboratories • “Administrative Use” – e.g., registration, payroll, fee payment • “Guest Use” – e.g., parents, donors, vendors • Mixture of “businesses”

  3. Key trends, undergraduates • 84% of undergraduates own a laptop; only 46% own desktops • Average 21.2 hours per week on internet • Handhelds • 63% own an internet capable handheld (51% in 2009) • 67% of those use it to access the internet at least once a week (29% in 2009, 43% in 2010) • 77% who own an internet capable handheld, use it to access social networking sites • Cloud • 36% have used web-based productivity application • 33% use wikis SOURCE: ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2010 (October 2010)

  4. Student usage trends • Daily use of text messaging • Increasing • 53% (2008); 66% (2009); 73% (2010) • Daily use of instant messaging (e.g., Jabber, AOL, Yahoo, MSN) • Decreasing • 48% (2007); 33% (2008); 28% (2009); 24% (2010) • Daily use of social networking sites • Increasing • 49% (2007); 57% (2008); 61% (2009); 59% (2010) SOURCE: ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology 2010 (October 2010)

  5. Some wireless numbers • Wireless Access Points • Approx 2000 at present • approx 5000 needed for pervasive coverage (excluding residence halls) • Devices: 50000 distinct devices • Concurrency • Peak last academic year: 10,021 distinct users • Peak so far this academic year: 13,409 distinct users • Bandwidth • Peak aggregate outgoing so far: 129 Mbps • Peak aggregate incoming so far: 536 Mbps

  6. Challenges • Security • E.g., laptop with ~16,000 viral signatures • Leakage of sensitive data • Policy protections / guidance • Exposing same services in various delivery modalities • Directory search • Add/drop • Course management system • Etc… • E.g., one person with 4 mobile devices (or 5) • Pervasive cellular versus pervasive wireless, versus both • Next generation voice services

  7. Strategies • Distributed Antennae System (and “Neutral Hosting”) • “personal” wireless will continue to grow in cellular networks • “business / academic / administrative” wireless will continue to grow in 802.11 networks • Bring (some of) your tools: faculty / staff cell phone stipend… • Design/architect for remote users • Remote capability for privileged access users the greatest challenge • Exposing services across network borders, to multiple platforms next greatest challenge • No other choice but to support standards and protocols, not specific devices nor specific mobile operating sys

  8. Cell phone stipend • Forcing conceptual review/analysis • On-call • Mobile worker • Remote wipe/erase • Modem cards • Tablets, netbooks, etc. • Porting numbers • Personal • Business • Erosion of traditional landlines, or not…

  9. Things to consider • What is king? • Contents? • Applications? • Media? • Public Privacy • Is there a mobile watercooler? • Of special concern for public entities • Public records, and “fixing” to a “medium” • Context commingling • Location no longer determines context • Does content drive context? • Does source / target drive context?

  10. And more things to consider • Communications across modalities • email • SMS text • Browser • Thick-client, mobile-style… • Technology-transformation and social-movement • email: 40 years (1970s) • SMS: 15-20 years (1990s) • http: 15-20 years (1990s)

  11. To infinity and beyond • Mobile-2-mobile • Pacemaker data • Medical alerts • Where is your car? • Data/persona portability • DRM for business-owned content

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