Adhoc – Sensor Network (PEC-CS702C)
5 units: Introduction and Overview, Communication Protocols, Infrastructure Establishment, Sensor Network Platforms and Tools · L-T-P 3L/week.
Detailed syllabus
Unit 1: Introduction and Overview (4 hours)
Introduction and Overview:Overview of wireless networks, types, infrastructure-based and infrastructure-less, introduction to MANETs (Mobile Ad-hoc Networks), characteristics, reactive and proactive routing protocols with examples, introduction to sensor networks, commonalities and differences with MANETs, constraints and challenges, advantages, applications, enabling technologies for WSNs.
Unit 2 (9 hours)
Architectures Single-node architecture - hardware components, design constraints, energy consumption of sensor nodes, operating systems and execution environments, examples of sensor nodes, sensor network scenarios, types of sources and sinks – single hop vs. multi hop networks, multiple sources and sinks – mobility, optimization goals and figures of merit, gateway concepts, design principle
Unit 3: Communication Protocols (9 hours)
Communication Protocols: Physical layer and transceiver design considerations, MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks, low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts - S- MAC, the mediation device protocol, wakeup radio concepts, address and name management, assignment of MAC addresses, routing protocolsclassification, gossiping, flooding, energyefficient routing, unicast protocols, multipath routing, data-centric routing, data aggregation, SPIN, LEACH, DirectedDiffusion, geographic routing.
Unit 4: Infrastructure Establishment (8 hours)
Infrastructure Establishment: Topology control, flat network topologies, hierarchical networks by clustering, time synchronization, properties, protocols based on sender-receiver and receiver-receiver synchronization, LTS, TPSN, RBS, HRTS, localization and positioning, properties and approaches, single-hop localization, positioning in multi-hop environment, range based localization algorithms – location services, sensor tasking and control
Unit 5: Sensor Network Platforms and Tools (9 hours)
Sensor Network Platforms and Tools:Sensor node hardware, Berkeley motes, programming challenges, nodelevel software platforms, node-level simulators, state-centric programming, Tiny OS, nesC components, NS2 simulator, TOSSIM.
Source: official document