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Week 9 Lab Sheet - Cloud Computing Mobile Networks

This lab sheet has two major goals: 1) Investigate simple cloud file storage using Microsoft OneDrive. Students are instructed to create Word, Excel and text files and save them to their OneDrive accounts. They then access and edit the files from a Linux Virtual Machine. 2) Investigate the CDMA protocol for mobile networks. The document explains how CDMA works to send combined data from multiple devices using unique codes. Students are to watch a YouTube video demonstrating CDMA and replicate the process in a spreadsheet.

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Week 9 Lab Sheet - Cloud Computing Mobile Networks

This lab sheet has two major goals: 1) Investigate simple cloud file storage using Microsoft OneDrive. Students are instructed to create Word, Excel and text files and save them to their OneDrive accounts. They then access and edit the files from a Linux Virtual Machine. 2) Investigate the CDMA protocol for mobile networks. The document explains how CDMA works to send combined data from multiple devices using unique codes. Students are to watch a YouTube video demonstrating CDMA and replicate the process in a spreadsheet.

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School of Science,

Engineering & Information


Technology ITECH1102 Week 9 lab
sheet: Cloud & Mobile networks

Major goals of this lab sheet:


 Investigate simple cloud file storage
 Investigate the CDMA protocol

Part 1 – Investigate simple cloud file storage.

Discussion:

Cloud services come in many shapes and sizes. For large corporates, outsourcing many
services to cloud providers can be an effective but sometimes costly option. Fed University, for
example, currently uses cloud providers for our corporate web site and also for Workstation
management (controlling and updating staff and lab machine software). The university also has
plans to use cloud providers for other IT systems.

At the other end of the spectrum is Cloud Storage Services which is primarily directed to the
consumer market. These services provide free or subscription-based access to the internet
(cloud) based storage and associated services. Products in this category include:
• Microsoft’s OneDrive
• Dropbox
• Google Drive
• Apple’s iCloud

Federation University students have access to Microsoft’s OneDrive Cloud Storage Service.

This Microsoft (Azure) service gives students and staff access to 1TByte of mirrored cloud-based storage.
The data is currently stored in Melbourne and Sydney.

OneDrive also allows access to online Microsoft Office applications, or more particular Microsoft Word,
Excel and others.

To encourage consumers to use their products, Cloud Storage Service add other services such as file
synchronisation to PC’s, Macs, Android devices etc.

Today we will use OneDrive to store files from a Windows platform. We will then access those files from
our Linux Virtual Machine then edit those files.
Finally, those students with mobile devices can access the cloud-based files from their mobile handsets
(smartphones).

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Technology Task 1 : Create some file for
storing in the cloud.

Students who are working from lab machines can access their OneDrive storage from the OneDrive icon
in Windows Explorer.

If you are working from a machine without the OneDrive app you can:
 Install and configure OneDrive on your Windows machine
OR
 Access OneDrive from a browser

To access OneDrive from a Browser enter the URL https://onedrive.live.com/about/en-nz/business/ or do


a Google search for OneDrive for Business login.

Then enter your Fed Uni email address, follow the prompts to authenticate.

The OneDrive interface will open, giving you 1 TByte of cloud storage.

Create the following three document and save them in the cloud:
 A Microsoft Word document
 A Microsoft Excel document
 A text file created with Notepad

Each document should be named week9-lab-xxxxxxx (where xxx is Excel, Word or Notepad).
Each file should also include a line of text within the document (Eg. Week 9 lab)

Task 2: Access the file from your Linux Virtual Machine

1. Run Linux Lite.

2. Open a browser and login to OneDrive from the browser.

Note – Our Linux Lite Virtual Machines do not have Excel, Word or Notepad installed. Any editing of
these documents will be done using the Cloud provider’s online applications.

3. Open the word document and make a few text and formatting changes.

4. Open the Excel document and do the same.

5. Open the Text document and make some changes.

To gain the first mark in this lab demonstrate to your tutor that you can edit
OneDrive resident Microsoft Office application form Linux Lite.

Optional exercise:

Using the browser on your smartphone login to OneDrive and try editing the three files above.
What happens?

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Technology Part 2 – Investigate the CDMA
(Code division multiple access) protocols.

CDMA is used widely in mobile phone communications systems.

This digital protocol aims to send the data from multiple devices as a single transmission,
therefore, making better use of the radio channel bandwidth.

Each mobile device extracts its own data from the combined transmission, to extract the data
from the combined transmission - each user device is allocated a code that is combined with
each bit of data to be sent.

The process involves combining many users’ data into one transmission and then the extraction
of the data at the mobile phone, to extract the data; each mobile device uses its unique chipping
code that was used to combine the data at the sender.

This process is demonstrated in the following YouTube video. Please examine it carefully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ81CuujwYE

Then use the associated spreadsheet to replicate the YouTube video in paper format. This
should give you a reasonable understanding of how CDMA works.

To gain the second mark in this lab demonstrate to your tutor that you have filled out
the spreadsheet and that you have a reasonable understanding of how CDMA works.

Keen students may like to repeat the CDMA paper-based exercise using different user data,
user codes etc. Doing this will help increase your understanding of CDMA technology
considerably.

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