Wireless Sensor Networks
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Wireless Sensor Networks Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Sensor Networks (subject code 3722711) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 44 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 (3722711)Unit 1 Unit 1
- Introduction and overview of sensor network architecture and its applications
- sensor network comparison with Ad Hoc Networks
- Sensor node architecture with hardware and software details
Unit 2 Unit 2
- Hardware: Examples like mica2
- btnode, and Sun SPOT
- Software (Operating Systems): tinyOS
- Contiki, and RetOS
Unit 3 Unit 3
- Programming tools: C, nesC
- Performance comparison of wireless sensor networks simulation and experimental platforms like open source (ns-2) and commercial (QualNet
Unit 4 Unit 4
- 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
- BLE (Bluetooth low energy), UWB
Unit 5 Unit 5
- Data dissemination and processing
- differences compared with other database management systems
- data storage
- query processing
Unit 6 Unit 6
- 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
- Subject Code: 3722711 w.e.f
- AY 2018-19 References: H
- Karl and A
- “Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks”
- John Wiley & Sons
- Sivalingam, and T
- “Wireless Sensor Networks”
- Springer Verlag
- 1st Indian reprint
- Zhao and L
- “Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach”
- Morgan Kaufmann
- 2013. YingshuLi, MyT
- Weili Wu, “Wireless sensor Network and Applications”
- Springer series on signals and communication technology