Course

Unit 1

Overview of WSN: Introduction, Sensor network applications – Habitat Monitoring –Tracking chemical plumes – Smart transportation. Constraints and Challenges, Emerging technologies for wireless sensor networks – Advantages of sensor networks.

Unit 2

Architectures: Hardware components – sensor node overview – controller- memory – communication device – sensors and actuators – power supply of sensor nodes – Network architecture – Sensor network scenarios – types of sources and sinks – single hop Vsmulti hop – multiple sources and sinks – mobility – Gateway Concepts.

Unit 3

• Feng Zhao and Leonidas J. Guibas, “Wireless Sensor Networks- An Information Processing Approach”, Elsevier, 2007.
• Kazem Sohraby, Daniel Minoli, and Taieb Znati, “Wireless Sensor Networks -Technology, Protocols and Applications”, John Wiley, 2007.
• Anna Hac, “Wireless Sensor Network Designs”, John Wiley, 2003.