Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering - Vishwakarma ...

Bansilal Ramnath Agarwal Charitable Trust’s
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune – 411 037
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
FF No.: 654
EC 42111 :: WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Credits: 03
Teaching Scheme: - Theory 3 Hrs/Week
Prerequisites: Students having basic knowledge of electronics.
Objectives:
• To create awareness about the challenging field of Wireless Sensor Networks.
• To introduce various basic principles of operation of a WSN.
• To create a research attitude amongst the students.
• To install network simulator ns-2 & simulate different wireless ad-hoc scenarios.
• To become aware about the research avenues in WSN.
• Mapping with PEOs:2,5,6,9
Unit I
Introduction and WSN Infrastructure
(8 Hrs)
A. Introduction, Sensor Network Concept, WSN constraints and challenges, WSN
applications, WSN development stage – deployment, localization and tracking, data
communication. Design of sensor motes, low power WSN, Clustering, Topology control.
B. WSN applications
Unit II
Localization and Sensor - Medium Access Control
(8 Hrs)
A. Sensor management and Bayesian networks, Time synchronization, Types of
Localization, Key assumptions, Fundamentals of MAC protocols, Energy conservation
MAC protocols like S-MAC, P-MAC, Z-MAC, T-MAC, L-MAC etc, IEEE 802.15.4
standard.
B. Localization algorithms
Unit III
Routing protocols for WSN and Network simulators
(8 Hrs)
A. Delaunay triangulation, Prim’s algorithm, Euclidean minimum spanning tree, DSR
algorithm, Network simulators – Introduction to TinyOS, Nes C, TOSSIM, NS-2.
Structure & Syllabus of B.E (E&TC) Program – Pattern ‘C11’, Rev01, dt. 2/4/2011
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