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EC2051

LP Rev. No: 00
Sub Code & Name :EC2051 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Date:01/12/2011
Unit: I

Branch: EC

Semester :VIII
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Unit syllabus:

OVERVIEW OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks, Enabling Technologies for Wireless

Sensor Networks.
Objective:
To provide an overview about sensor networks and emerging technologies.
Session
No

Topics to be covered

Time

Ref/
Pg.No

Teaching
Aids

Characteristic
requirements
Tos,
Qos, Fault
tolerance, Lifetime ,scalability, wide range densities,
programmability, maintainability.
Required mechanisms multihop, energy efficient,
auto configuration, collaboration, data centric,
locality, exploit trade-off.
Unique constraints and challenges of sensor
networks.

50m

1/(7-8)

BB

50m

1/(910)

BB

50m

2/(2-6)

BB

Emerging technologies for wireless sensor networks.

50m

1/(1315)

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Advantages of sensor networks energy advantage

detection advantage.
Sensor network applications Habitat Monitoring.

50m

2/(6-9)

BB

50m

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Sensor network applications Tracking chemical

plumes- Smart transportation.
Collaborative processing and Key definitions of
sensor networks.
Review of unit-1

50m

2/(912)
2/(1216)
2/(1620)

2
3

6
7
8
9

Continuous Assessment Test-1

50m
50m

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EC2051

LP Rev. No: 00
Sub Code & Name :EC2051 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Date:01/12/2011
Unit: II

Branch: EC

Semester :VIII
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Unit syllabus:

02 of 06

ARCHITECTURES

Single-Node
Architecture
Hardware
Components,
Energy
Consumption of Sensor Nodes , Operating Systems and Execution
Environments,
Network
Architecture
-Sensor
Network
Scenarios,
Optimization Goals and Figures of Merit, Gateway Concepts.
Objective:
To study about the node and network architecture of sensor nodes and its
execution environment.
Session
No

Topics to be covered

Time

Ref/
Pg.No

Teaching
Aids

10

Hardware components sensor node overview

controller- memory

50m

1/(1719)

BB

11

Hardware components communication device sensors and actuators power supply of

sensor nodes
Energy consumption of sensor nodes operation states
with different power consumption
microcontroller energy consumption
memory
Energy consumption - Radio transceivers computation
and communication power
consumption.
OS Embedded OS programming paradigms
protocol stack energy and power

50m

1/(2131)

BB

50m

1/(3639)

BB

50m

1/(4044)

BB

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1/(4050)

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12

13
14

management
15

OS and execution environments - Case study TinyOS

and nesC

50m

1/(5056)

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16

Network architecture Sensor network scenarios

types of sources and sinks single hop
Vs multi hop- multiple sources and sinks
- mobility
Optimization goals and figures of merit Qos energy
efficiency scalability - robustness

50m

1/(5962)

BB

50m

1/(6367)

BB

18

Gateway Need WSN to internet Internet to WSN

WSN tunneling

50m

1/(7881)

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19

Review of unit -2

17

Continuous Assessment Test-2

50m

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Sub Code & Name :EC2051 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Date:01/12/2011
Unit: III

Branch: EC

Semester :VIII
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Unit syllabus:

03 of 06

NETWORKING SENSORS

Physical Layer and Transceiver Design Considerations, MAC Protocols for

Wireless Sensor Networks, Low Duty Cycle Protocols And Wakeup Concepts S-MAC , The Mediation Device Protocol, Wakeup Radio Concepts, Address and
Name Management, Assignment of MAC Addresses, Routing ProtocolsEnergy-Efficient Routing, Geographic Routing.
Objective:
To understand the concepts of communication, MAC, routing protocols and also study
about the naming and addressing in WSN.
Topics to be covered

Time

Ref/Pg.No

Communication protocols physical layer and transceiver

design in WSN : energy usage profile choice of
modulation scheme
Communication protocols physical layer and transceiver
design in WSN : dynamic modulation scaling antenna.
MAC protocols - Low duty cycle protocols and wake up
concepts : S-MAC
MAC protocols - Low duty cycle protocols and wake up
concepts : Mediation device protocol

50m

1/(103-104)

Tea
chin
g
Aids
BB

50m

1/(104-108)

BB

50m

1/(123)

BB

50m

1/(126)

BB

24

MAC protocols - Low duty cycle protocols and wake up

concepts : Wakeup radio concepts

50m

1/(127)

BB

25

Naming and addressing Address and name

management in WSN
Naming and addressing Assignment of MAC addresses
distributed assignment of network wide addresses
Routing protocols Energy efficient overview
ex.,unicast protocols
Routing protocols Energy efficient multipath unicast
routing

50m

1/(186)

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50m

1/(186-188)

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50m

1/(295-301)

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1/(301-303)

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Sess
ion
No
20
21
22
23

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28

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Routing protocols Geographic routing position based

routing geocasting
Continuous Assessment Test-3

50m

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Sub Code & Name :EC2051 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Date:01/12/2011
Unit: IV

Branch: EC

Semester :VIII
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Unit syllabus:

04 of 06

INFRASTRUCTURE ESTABLISHMENT

Topology Control , Clustering, Time Synchronization, Localization and

Positioning, Sensor Tasking and Control.
Objective:
To learn about topology control and clustering in networks with timing
synchronization for localization services with sensor tasking and control.
Sessio
n
No
30

Time

Topology control motivation and basic ideasoptions and

aspects of topology- controlling topology
in flat networks power control

50m

1/(251265)&& 2/
(103-106)

31

Clustering hierarchical networks by clustering clusters

- connecting clusters rotating cluster
heads

50m

1/(274-279)
&& 2/(106107)

BB

32

Clustering hierarchical networks by clustering Multihop

clusters multilayer of clustering
passive clustering
Time synchronization need properties protocol LTS
TPSN RBS HRTS

50m

BB

50m

1/(279-284)
&& 2/(106107)
1/(201-223)

Time synchronization clocks and communication delays

50m

2/(107-117)

BB

50m

1/(231-243)

BB

50m

1/(243-247)

BB

33
34

Ref/Pg.No

Teac
hing
Aids
BB

Topics to be covered

BB

interval methods reference broadcasts

35
36

Localization and positioning properties approaches

lateration problem Single Hop
localization
Localization and positioning positioning in multihop
environment

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38

Localization and localization services Ranging

techniques range based localization
algorithms location services.
Sensor tasking and control Task driven sensing roles

50m

2/(117-127)

BB

50m

2/(136-162)

BB

50m

2/(167-185)

BB

of sensor nodes and utilities information based sensor

39
40

tasking
Sensor tasking and control joint routing and information
aggregation
Review of unit-4
Continuous Assessment Test-4

50m

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EC2051

LP Rev. No: 00
Sub Code & Name :EC2051 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Date:01/12/2011
Unit: V

Branch: EC

Semester :VIII
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Unit syllabus:

SENSOR NETWORK PLATFORMS AND TOOLS

Sensor Node Hardware Berkeley Motes, Programming Challenges,

Node-level software platforms, Node-level Simulators, State-centric
programming.
Objective:
To study about sensor node hardware and software platforms and understand
the simulation and programming techniques.
Session
No

Topics to be covered

Time

41

Sensor node hardware Berkeley motes

50m

42

Sensor network programming challenges

43
44
45

Ref/
Pg.No

Teaching
Aids

BB

50m

2/(240242)
2/(245)

Node Level software platforms TinyOS

50m

2/(248)

BB

Node Level software platforms nesC-component

implementation
Node Level software platforms nesC- concurrency
and atomicity

50m

2/(252259)
2/(260)

BB

50m

BB

BB

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Node Level software platforms TinyGALS

50m

47

Node Level simulators ns2 simulator

50m

48

Node Level simulators TOSSIM

49

Programming beyond individual nodes : collaboration

groups - State centric
Programming(PIECES)
Programming beyond individual nodes : State centric
Programming- multitarget tracking
problem
Review of unit-5

50
51

2/(253266)
2/(267269)

BB

50m

2/(271)

BB

50m

2/(272278)

BB

50m

2/(279287)

BB

50m

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Continuous Assessment Test-5

BB

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Sub Code & Name EC2051WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Date:01/12/2012
Branch: EC

Semester :VIII
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Course Delivery Plan:

Week

Units

10

11

12

13

14

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I II

I II

I II

I II

I II

I II

I II

I II

I II

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I II

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TEXT BOOK
1. Holger Karl & Andreas Willig, " Protocols And Architectures for Wireless
Sensor Networks" , John Wiley, 2005.
2. Feng Zhao & Leonidas J. Guibas, Wireless Sensor Networks- An
Information Processing Approach", Elsevier, 2007.
REFERENCES
1. Kazem Sohraby, Daniel Minoli, & Taieb Znati, Wireless Sensor NetworksTechnology, Protocols, And Applications, John Wiley, 2007.
2. Anna Hac, Wireless Sensor Network Designs, John Wiley, 2003.

Signature
Name
Designation
Date

Prepared by

Approved by

G.Padmavathi & S.Poorani

Associate professor &Assistant
professor / EC
01/12/2011

Prof.E.G.Govindan
VP && HOD/EC
01/12/2011