Wireless Sensor Networks
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The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Sensor Networks (subject code ME01000671) as prescribed for CE · Semester 1 divides the course into 8 units, covering 51 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 (ME01000671)Unit 1 Introduction
- Definitions and background
- challenges and constraints
- Single Node Architecture: Hardware components
- Energy consumption of sensor nodes
- Operating systems and execution environments
- examples of sensor nodes
Unit 2 Network Architecture
- Sensor network scenarios
- optimization goals
- design principles
- service interfaces
- gateway concepts Physical Layer: Introduction
- wireless channel and communication fundamentals
- physical layer and transceiver design considerations in WSNs
Unit 3 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
- Link Layer Protocols: Tasks and requirements
- Link Management
Unit 4 Naming and Addressing
- address and name management
- Assignment of MAC address
- Distributed assignment of locally unique addresses
- content based and geographic addressing
- Time Synchronization
- Localization and positioning: Time synchronization problem
- properties of localization and positioning procedures
- lateration problem
- single hop localization
- positioning in multihop environments
Unit 5 Routing Protocols
- Forwarding and routing
- MANET protocols
- gossiping and agent based unicast forwarding
- Energy-efficient Unicast
- Broadcast and Multicast
- geographic routing
- Mobile nodes
Unit 6 Data centric and content based networking
- Data centric routing
- Data aggregation
- data centric storage. 3 8
Unit 7 Transport layer and Quality of Service
- The transport layer and QoS in wireless sensor networks
- Coverage and deployment
- Reliable data transport
- single packet delivery
- block delivery
- congestion control and rate control
- Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Computer Engineering Course / Subject Code : ME01000671 Course / Subject Name: Wireless Sensor Networks
Unit 8 Security –
- Challenges of security
- security attacks
- Protocols and mechanisms for security
- IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Security
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