Wireless Sensor Networks & its Energy Management
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The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Sensor Networks & its Energy Management (subject code 2744402) as prescribed for EAC( · Semester 4 divides the course into 4 units, covering 31 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 (2744402)Unit 1 Introduction
- The vision of Ambient Intelligence
- Application examples
- Types of applications
- Challenges for WSNs
- Difference between Mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks
Unit 2 Single-node architecture
- Hardware components
- Energy consumption of sensor nodes
- Operating systems and execution environments
- Some examples of sensor nodes
- Network architecture: Sensor network scenarios
- Optimization goals and figures of merit
- Design principles for WSNs
- Service interfaces of WSNs
- Gateway concepts
Unit 3 Communication Protocols
- Physical layer: Introduction
- Wireless channel and communication fundamentals
- Physical layer and transceiver design considerations in WSNs
- MAC protocols: Fundamentals of (wireless) MAC protocols
- Low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts
- Contention-based protocols
- Schedule-based protocols
- The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol
- How about IEEE 802.11 and bluetooth? Link-layer protocols: Fundamentals: tasks and requirements
- Error control
- Link management
Unit 4 Routing protocols
- The many faces of forwarding and routing
- Gossiping and agent-based unicast forwarding
- Energy-efficient unicast
- Broadcast and multicast
- Geographic routing
- Mobile nodes 5 14-16%