'Wireless Sensor Networks' is a course offered in the B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.
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
Protocols: MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks - Low duty cycle protocol: SMAC - Contention Based Protocol: CSMA, Scheduling Based Protocol – Routing Protocol: AODV, DSDV, optimized Linked State Routing, DSR and Reactive routing: Flooding, Hierarchical routing, Location based Routing - Unicast and Multicast.