Syllabus
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Course Code: * Elective-II MTEC-113 Course Name: Wireless Sensor Networks |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction and overview of sensor network architecture and its applications, sensornetwork comparison with Ad Hoc Networks, Sensor node architecture with hardware and software details.Hardware: Examples like mica2, micaZ, telosB, cricket, Imote2, tmote, btnode, and Sun SPOT, Software (Operating Systems): tinyOS, MANTIS, Contiki, and RetOS. | |
| 2 | Programming tools: C, nesC. Performance comparison of wireless sensor networkssimulation and experimental platforms like open source (ns-2) and commercial (QualNet, Opnet) | |
| 3 | Overview of sensor network protocols (details of atleast 2 important protocol per layer):Physical, MAC and routing/ Network layer protocols, node discovery protocols, multi-hop and cluster based protocols, Fundamentals of 802.15.4, Bluetooth, BLE (Bluetooth low energy), UWB. | |
| 4 | Data dissemination and processing; differences compared with other database managementsystems, data storage; query processing.Specialized features: Energy preservation and efficiency; security challenges; faulttolerance, Issues related to Localization, connectivity and topology, Sensor deployment mechanisms; coverage issues; sensor Web; sensor Grid, Open issues for future research, and Enabling technologies in wireless sensor network. | |
