Wireless Sensor Network
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Wireless Sensor Network Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Wireless Sensor Network (subject code 1726202) as prescribed for IOT · Semester 2 divides the course into 5 units, covering 76 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 (1726202)Unit 1 UNIT-I
- Introduction 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
- 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 multihop networks
- Multiple sinks and sources
- Three types of mobility
- AY 2021-22 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
- 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
- Wakeup radio concepts
- Further reading
- Contention-based protocols
- CSMA protocols
- Schedule-based protocols
- Traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA)
- The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol Network 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
- Active Badge
- Overlapping connectivity
- Approximate point in triangle
- Using angle of arrival information
- Positioning in multihop environments
- Connectivity in a multihop network
- Multihop range estimation
- Iterative and collaborative multilateration
Unit 5 UNIT-V
- Routing protocols The many faces of 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 w.e.f
- AY 2021-22 o Recent Development in Wireless Sensor Networks (Study from latest research papers from Scopus indexed/web of science journals
- 04 hours during laboratory hours)
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