Wireless Communication & Sensor Networking
Get the full GTU study material, English & Gujarati textbook PDFs, syllabus curriculum, and solved previous year question papers.
English Book & Chapters
English Book Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesGTU Previous Year Papers
Papers Coming Soon
We are working hard to add this material. Stay tuned for updates!
Follow on Instagram for UpdatesWireless Communication & Sensor Networking Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Communication & Sensor Networking (subject code ME02062021) as prescribed for IOT · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 72 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 (ME02062021)Unit 1 UNIT-I
- Introduction: Fundamentals of sensor network architecture and its applications
- sensor network comparison with Ad Hoc Networks
- Sensor node architecture with hardware and software details
- Challenges for WSNs
- Characteristic requirements
- Required mechanisms
- Enabling technologies for wireless sensor networks
Unit 2 UNIT-II
- Network architecture: Sensor network scenarios
- Types of sources and sinks
- Single-hop versus multichip networks
- Multiple sinks and sources
- Three types of mobility
- Optimization goals and figures of merit
- Quality of service
- Energy efficiency
- Scalability Design principles for WSNs
- Distributed organization
- In-network processing
- Adaptive fidelity and accuracy
- Data centricity
- Exploit location information
- Exploit activity patterns
- Exploit heterogeneity
- Component-based protocol stacks and cross-layer
- Gateway concepts
- The need for gateways
- WSN to Internet communication
- Internet to WSN communication
Unit 3 UNIT-III
- Medium Access Control(MAC) Protocols: Fundamentals of wireless MAC protocols
- Requirements and design constraints for wireless MAC protocols
- Important classes of MAC protocols
- MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
- Low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts
- Sparse topology and energy management (STEM)
- The mediation device protocol
- Further reading
- Contention-based protocols
- CSMA protocols
- Schedule-based protocols
- Traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA)
- The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol Network Program Name: Master of Engineering Level: PG Branch: Internet of Things Subject Code : ME02062021 Subject Name : Wireless Communication & Sensor Networking Super frame structure
- Data transfer procedures
- Slotted CSMA-CA protocol
Unit 4 UNIT IV
- Localization and positioning: Properties of localization and positioning procedures
- Possible approaches
- Trilateration and triangulation
- Scene analysis Mathematical basics for the lateration problem Solution with three anchors and correct distance values
- Single-hop localization
- Overlapping connectivity
- Approximate point in triangle
- Using angle of arrival information
- Positioning in multichip environments
- Connectivity in a multichip network
- Multichip range estimation
- Iterative and collaborative multilateration
Unit 5 UNIT V
- Routing protocols : Forwarding and routing
- Gossiping and agent-based unicast forwarding
- Randomized forwarding
- Random walks
- Further reading
- Energy-efficient unicast
- Some example unicast protocols
- Multipath unicast routing
- Broadcast and multicast
- Source-based tree protocols
- core-based tree protocols
- Mesh-based protocols Geographic routing
- Basics of position-based routing
- Mobile nodes
- Mobile sinks
- Mobile data collectors
- Mobile regions