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Lectures notes for 2010 - KTH

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Context of the module<br />

Communication systems have been both increasing their number of users and<br />

increasing the variety of communication systems. Additionally, increasingly<br />

communicating entities are not people, but rather things.<br />

Number<br />

Micro controllers 6 x 10 9 per year http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2002.10015<br />

People 6.7 x 10 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population<br />

Mobile subscribers ~4 x 10 9 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/newslog/Worldwide+Mobile+Cellular+Subscribers+To+Reach+4+Billion+Mark+Late+2008.aspx<br />

PCs >1 x 10 9 http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=703807<br />

Automobiles 53 x 10 6 produced in 2007 http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/<br />

Commercial vehicles 20 x 10 6 produced in 2007 http://oica.net/category/production-statistics/<br />

Maguire Context of the module 1: 20 of 104<br />

maguire@kth.se <strong>2010</strong>.03.21 Internetworking/Internetteknik

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