Syllabus
Syllabus
Objective Provide students with the fundamentals of WSN architecture, network platforms, and applications to design
energy-efficient MAC protocols for sensor networks in IoT environments.
Sections Weightage
A 25%
Syllabus B 25%
C 25%
D 25%
TOTAL 100%
SECTION A
SENSOR NETWORKS – INTRODUCTION & ARCHITECTURES: Challenges for Wireless Sensor
Networks, Enabling Technologies for Wireless Sensor Networks, WSN application examples, Single-Node
Architecture - Hardware Components, Energy Consumption of Sensor Nodes, Network Architecture - Sensor
Network Scenarios, Transceiver Design Considerations, Optimization Goals and Figures of Merit.
SECTION B
ADHOC NETWORKS AND ROUTING PROTOCOLS: Elements of Ad hoc Wireless Networks, Issues in
Ad hoc wireless networks, Issues in Designing a Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks, Classifications
of Routing Protocols, Table Driven Routing Protocols - Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV), On–
Demand Routing protocols –Ad hoc On–Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV).
SECTION C
WSN NETWORKING CONCEPTS AND PROTOCOLS:MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, Low
Duty Cycle Protocols and Wakeup Concepts - S-MAC, The Mediation Device Protocol, Contention based
protocols - PAMAS, Schedule based protocols – LEACH, IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol, Routing Protocols-
Energy Efficient Routing, Challenges and Issues in Transport layer protocol.
SECTION D
SENSOR NETWORK SECURITY: Network Security Requirements, Issues and Challenges in Security
Provisioning, Network Security Attacks, Layer wise attacks in wireless sensor networks, possible solutions for
jamming, tampering, black hole attack, flooding attack. Key Distribution and Management, Secure Routing –
SPINS, reliability requirements in sensor networks. INTRODUCTION TO CONTIKIOS, Node-level Simulators
– NS2 and its extension to sensor networks, COOJA, , Programming beyond individual nodes – State centric
programming.
1. C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj, ―Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Architectures and Protocols‖,
Prentice Hall, PTR, 2004.
2. Holger Karl , Andreas willig, ―Protocol and Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks‖, John wiley
publication, Jan 2006
3. . Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas, ―Wireless Sensor Networks: an information processing approach‖,
Elsevier publication, 2004.
4. Charles E. Perkins, ―Ad Hoc Networking‖, Addison Wesley, 2000.
5. I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci, ―Wireless sensor networks: a survey‖,
computer networks, Elsevier, 2002, 394 - 422.
ECH403B.1 CO1: Describe the architecture of wireless sensor network system and evaluate various
challenges and constraints for the same
ECH403B.2 CO2: Identify and describe the various protocols for routing data through Wireless Sensor
Networks.
ECH403B.3 CO3: Resolve special issues of WSNs related to power handling energy conservation and
security challenges
ECH403B.4 CO4: Describe various protocols to evaluate Wireless Sensor Networks for a given application
and describe emerging research areas in the field of sensor networks
PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO1 PSO2
ECH403B.1
3 2 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - - 3 1
ECH403B.2
3 3 2 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 - - 3 1
ECH403B.3
3 3 3 2 1 1 1 - 1 2 - - 3 2
ECH403B.4
3 3 2 2 2 1 1 - 1 1 - - 3 3
3-High, 2-Medium, 1-Low