Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering
COURSE
COURSE TITLE L T P C
CODE
22EC91 WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS 3 0 0 3
7
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
To enable the student to understand the role of sensors and the networking of
sensed data for different applications.
To expose the students to the sensor node essentials and the architectural details,
the medium access and routing issues and the energy constrained operational
scenario.
To enrich the student to understand the challenges in synchronization and
localization of sensor networks.
To explain topology management for effective and sustained communication
To understand the data management and security aspects for different
applications in wireless sensor networks
UNIT I OVERVIEW OF WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS 9
Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks- Characteristics requirements-required
mechanisms, Difference between mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks, Applications of
sensor networks- case study, 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. Physical Layer
and Transceiver Design Considerations
UNIT III MAC AND ROUTING 9
MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, Zigbee, Low Duty Cycle Protocols and
Wakeup Concepts - S-MAC, 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 DATA MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY 9
Data management in WSN, Storage and indexing in sensor networks, Query processing in
sensor, Data aggregation, Directed diffusion, Tiny aggregation, greedy aggregation,
security in WSN.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
CO1 : Understand the fundamentals of wireless sensor networks and its application
CO2 : Explain the architectures of sensor networks and its parameters
CO3 : Discuss the various protocols and routing algorithm at different layer
CO4 : Understand the issues pertaining to sensor networks and the challenges involved
in managing a sensor network.
CO5 : Design energy efficient sensor nodes and protocols
CO6 : Illustrate the storage ,query processing, data management and different aggregation
methods for wireless sensor networks
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Holger Karl & Andreas Willig, Protocols And Architectures for Wireless
Sensor Networks, JohnWiley,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 Networks -
Technology Protocols And Applications, John Wiley, 2007.
2. Anna Hac, Wireless Sensor Network Designs, John Wiley, 2003.
3. Jun Zheng, Abbas Jamalipour, Wireless Sensor Networks: A Networking
Perspective, John Wiley, 2009.
4. Jochen Schiller, Mobile Communications, Pearson Education, 2nd Edition, 2003.
5. William Stallings, Wireless Communications and Networks , Pearson Education –
2004
NPTEL LINK:
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105160
