Wireless Sensor Networks
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The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Sensor Networks (subject code ME01005011) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 1 divides the course into 5 units, covering 24 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 (ME01005011)Unit 1 Introduction and overview of sensor network architecture
- WSN and its applications
- sensor network comparison with Ad Hoc Networks
- Sensor node architecture with hardware and software details
Unit 2 Hardware
- Examples like mica2
- btnode, and Sun SPOT
- Software (Operating Systems): tinyOS
- Contiki, and RetOS
Unit 3 Programming tools
- Performance comparison of wireless sensor networks simulation and experimental platforms like open source (ns-2) and commercial (QualNet
Unit 4 Overview of sensor network protocols
- (details of at least 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
- BLE (Bluetooth low energy), UWB
Unit 5 Specialized features
- Energy preservation and efficiency
- security challenges
- fault tolerance
- 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