Wireless Sensor Networks
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Wireless Sensor Networks Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Sensor Networks (subject code 3710217) as prescribed for CE(A · Semester 1 divides the course into 8 units, covering 26 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3710217)Unit 2 Single Node Architecture – Hardware components, Energy consumption
- of sensor nodes
- Operating systems and execution environments
- examples of sensor nodes
Unit 3 Network Architecture –
- Sensor network scenarios
- optimization goals
- design principles
- service interfaces
- gateway concepts
Unit 4 Physical layer –
- wireless channel and communication fundamentals
- physical layer and transceiver design considerations in WSNs
Unit 5 MAC protocols –
- Fundamentals of MAC protocols
- Low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts
- contention based protocols
- schedule based protocols
- The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol
Unit 6 Link Layer Protocols –
- Tasks and requirements
- Link Management
Unit 7 Naming and addressing –
- address and name management
- Assignment of MAC address
- Distributed assignment of locally unique addresses
- content based and geographic addressing
Unit 8 Time Synchronization, Localization and positioning –
- Time synchronization problem
- properties of localization and positioning procedures
- lateration problem
- single hop localization
- positioning in multihop environments