NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore

Department of Computer Science

IO 5031 – Internet of Things
SPRING 2022
Instructor Name: Arshad Ali TA Name (if any): xxx
Email address: [email protected] Email address:
Office Location/Number: Civil Building Office Location/Number:
Office Hours: Mon 10am-12pm

Course Information
Program: MS Credit Hours: 3 Type: Elective
Class Meeting Time: Wed, 8:30 am - 11:20 am
Class Venue: CS-15

Course Description/Objectives/Goals:
The Internet of things comprises of a network of tiny devices that bring intelligence into many
domains. The objective of this course is to develop the knowledge of connecting billions of
such devices together. The students will learn the communication standards and technologies
for enabling communication between these devices to realize interesting applications in the
domains of smart city, healthcare, agriculture, etc.

Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs):

1. Understand the basic components and capabilities of an IoT device.
2. Learn the IoT communication standards, architectures, and technologies.
3. Explore the use of existing technologies to realize interesting IoT applications.

Course Textbook
1. Vlasios Tsiatsis, Stamatis Karnouskos, Jan Höller, David Boyle, Catherine Mulligan, Internet of
Things (Second Edition), Academic Press, 2019,
2. Ian Akyildiz and Mehmet Can Vuran. 2010. Wireless Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
USA.

Additional references and books related to the course:

1. Please refer to the reading list given in tentative weekly schedule.

 Tentative Weekly Schedule
Week Topics to be Readings Assignments/Quizzes/
covered Term paper/ Projects
1 Introduction to 1) Al-Fuqaha, M. Guizani, M. Mohammadi, M. Aledhari
Internet of and M. Ayyash, "Internet of Things: A Survey on
Things Enabling Technologies, Protocols, and Applications," in
History, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 17, no.
Evolution, 4, pp. 2347-2376, Fourth quarter 2015.
Applications doi: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2444095.
and Future 2) C. Perera, C. H. Liu, S. Jayawardena and M. Chen, "A
Trends Survey on Internet of Things From Industrial Market
Perspective," in IEEE Access, vol. 2, pp. 1660-1679,
2014.
3) Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, Slaven
Marusic, Marimuthu Palaniswami, Internet of Things
(IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future
directions, Future Generation Computer Systems,
Volume 29, Issue 7, September 2013, Pages 1645-1660,
ISSN 0167-739X.
4) Daniele Miorandi, Sabrina Sicari, Francesco De
Pellegrini, Imrich Chlamtac, Internet of things: Vision,
applications and research challenges, Ad Hoc
Networks, Volume 10, Issue 7, September 2012, Pages
1497-1516, ISSN 1570-8705.

2-4 Enabling 1) F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, and E. Assignment 1

Technologies: Cayirci. 2002. Wireless sensor networks: a survey. Quiz 1
Wireless Sensor Comput. Netw. 38, 4 (March 2002), 393-422. Term paper / Project
Networks 2) Ian F. Akyildiz, Ismail H. Kasimoglu, Wireless sensor Deliverable-1 (Topic
(WSN), Wireless and actor networks: research challenges, Ad Hoc selection and group
Sensor Actuator Networks, Volume 2, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 351- formation)
Networks 367, ISSN 1570-8705
(WSAN), RFID, 3) T. Melodia, D. Pompili and I. F. Akyldiz, "Handling
NFC, Software Mobility in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks," in
Defined IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 9, no. 2,
Networking pp. 160-173, Feb. 2010.
4) Kwang-Cheng Chen, Shao-Yu Lien, Machine-to-
machine communications: Technologies and
challenges, Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 18, July 2014,
Pages 3-23, ISSN 1570-8705
5) Ian Akyildiz and Mehmet Can Vuran. 2010. Wireless
Sensor Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., USA.
6) S. Bera, S. Misra and A. V. Vasilakos, "Software-
Defined Networking for Internet of Things: A Survey,"
in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 4, no. 6, pp.
1994-2008, Dec. 2017.

5 Routing https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6550
Protocols in low
power Research Papers
networks, RPL
and its variants
6-7 Transport Layer 1) Vallati, Carlo, et al. "Analysis of the interplay Assignment 2
Protocols for between RPL and the congestion control strategies for Quiz 2
IoT CoAP." Ad Hoc Networks 109 (2020): 102290.
2) Betzler, August, et al. "CoCoA+: An advanced
congestion control mechanism for CoAP." Ad Hoc
Networks 33 (2015): 126-139.

8 Networking https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4919
protocols in IoT https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4944
IPSO, IPv6,
6LowPAN Research Papers
9 Project Term paper / Project
presentations Deliverable-1
10 Link Layer http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-halow
Communication http://www.ieee802.org/15/pub/TG1.html
Technologies http://www.zigbee.org/
RF, IR, WiFi,
IEEE 802.15.1, Research Papers
IEEE 802.15.4,
MTC
11 Application https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252 Quiz 3
Protocols
12 Operating https://www.mbed.com/en/ Assignment 3
Systems for IoT, www.contiki-os.org
Contiki based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TinyOS
Simulations, IoT www.freertos.org
Development Research Papers
Platforms,
Programming
IoT device
13 IoT Architecture http://www.onem2m.org/ Quiz 4
Standards and https://allseenalliance.org/
Middlewares https://standards.ieee.org/develop/project/2413.html
Cloud/Fog/Edge
Computing Kraemer, Frank Alexander, et al. "Fog computing in
healthcare–a review and discussion." IEEE Access 5
(2017): 9206-9222.

Razzaque, Mohammad Abdur, et al. "Middleware for

internet of things: a survey." IEEE Internet of things
journal 3.1 (2015): 70-95.
14 LPWAN, https://www.sigfox.com/
Proprietary http://www.weightless.org/
Networks, https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/
SigFoX,
Weightless 1) Raza, Usman, Parag Kulkarni, and Mahesh
Semantic Sooriyabandara. "Low power wide area networks: An
Sensor Web, overview." IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Resource/ 19.2 (2017): 855-873.
Information
discovery 2) Foubert, Brandon, and Nathalie Mitton. "Long-range
wireless radio technologies: A survey." Future internet
12.1 (2020): 13.
 15 Blockchain, Big 1) Belotti, Marianna, et al. "A vademecum on Term paper / Project
Data, Forensics, blockchain technologies: When, which, and how." IEEE Deliverable 2
Internet of Communications Surveys & Tutorials 21.4 (2019):
Social Things 3796-3838.
2) Other research papers

16 Term paper / Term paper / Project

Project viva Deliverable-3

(Tentative) Grading Criteria

1. Assignments = 10%
2. Quizzes = 10%
3. Mid Term(s): 20%
4. Project/Report = 20%
5. Final Term Exams = 40 %

Course Policies
1. No makeup for missed assignment.
2. 80% attendance