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This document outlines the course plan for a 3 credit Wireless Sensor Networks course. The course contains 5 units that cover an overview of WSNs and their characteristics, architectures for sensor nodes and networks, networking protocols for sensors, infrastructure establishment techniques, and sensor network platforms and tools. The course aims to help students understand sensor network mechanisms, architectures, routing protocols, control establishment, and evaluate performance using software platforms. Key textbooks and references are also listed.

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WSN

This document outlines the course plan for a 3 credit Wireless Sensor Networks course. The course contains 5 units that cover an overview of WSNs and their characteristics, architectures for sensor nodes and networks, networking protocols for sensors, infrastructure establishment techniques, and sensor network platforms and tools. The course aims to help students understand sensor network mechanisms, architectures, routing protocols, control establishment, and evaluate performance using software platforms. Key textbooks and references are also listed.

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EC 421 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS L T P C

3 0 0 3

UNIT-I OVERVIEW OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS 9


Wireless sensor networks: advantages, characteristics features, applications Challenges
for Wireless Sensor Networks, Enabling Technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks.

UNIT-II ARCHITECTURES 9
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.

UNIT-III NETWORKING SENSORS 9


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 Protocols- Energy-Efficient Routing, Geographic Routing.

UNIT-IV INFRASTRUCTURE ESTABLISHMENT 9


Topology Control, Clustering, Time Synchronization, Localization and Positioning, Sensor
Tasking and Control.

UNIT-V SENSOR NETWORK PLATFORMS AND TOOLS 9


Sensor Node Hardware Berkeley Motes, Programming Challenges, Node-level software
platforms, Node-level Simulators, State-centric programming.
L:45 T: 0 T:45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Holger Karl & Andreas Willig, " Protocols And
Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks" , John
Wiley, 2005.[Unit I-IV]
2. Feng Zhao & Leonidas J. Guibas, Wireless Sensor
Networks- An Information Processing Approach",
Elsevier, 2007.[Unit I-V]

REFERENCES
1. KazemSohraby, Daniel Minoli, &TaiebZnati,
Wireless Sensor Networks- Technology, Protocols and
Applications, John Wiley, 2007[Unit I,II, III].
2. Anna Hac, Wireless Sensor Network Designs, John
Wiley, 2003 .[Unit III].
COURSE OUTCOMES
At the end of this course students will be able to
CO1 : Realize the significances of sensor network mechanisms
CO2 : Understand the architecture and gateway concepts of WSN
CO3 : Analyze the routing protocols of wireless Sensors.
CO4 : Evaluate the control establishment of sensor networks.
CO5 : Illustrate the performance of WSN using software platform and tools.

COURSE OUTCOMES MAPPING WITH PROGRAMME OUTCOMES

PO-a PO-b PO-c PO-d PO-e PO-f PO-g PO-h PO-i PO-j PO-k PO-l PSO1 PSO2 PSO3
CO1 M L
CO2 M
CO3 M M
CO4 H L L
CO5 M M

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