ECE 902 - Networked Embedded Systems

Course Outline

Reading List

• Introduction

  • Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks
  
  
  

• Platforms

  • Smart Dust

    • Emerging Challenges: Mobile Networking for “Smart Dust”
    • Energy and Performance Considerations for Smart Dust.
    
    

  • Motes

    • Crossbow Mica Mote
    • MICA: A wireless platform for Deeply embedded networks
    
    

  • Sensoria

    • sGate
    • NetGate300
    • WINS 3.0
  
  
  

• Communication and Self-Organization

  • MAC

    • Wireless Medium Access Control Protocols
    • MACAW: a media access protocol for wireless LAN's
    • An Adaptive Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
    
    
    

  • Location Discovery

    • RADAR: A Software System for Locating Mobile Users: Design, Evaluation, and Lessons
    • Dynamic Fine-Grained Localization in Ad Hoc Networks of Sensors
    • The Cricket Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications
    
    
    

  • Self Organization

    • Scaleable Self-Assembly for Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
    • ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring Sensor Networks Topologies
    
    
    

  • Routing

    • Directed Diffusion
    • Geographic Routing without Location Information
    • Greedy Geographic Routing is Good Enough in Sensing Covered Networks
    • Analysis of the Zone Routing Protocol
  
  
  

• Sensing and Processing

  • Sensor Coverage

    • Low Power 0/1 Coverage and Scheduling Techniques in Sensor Networks Updated: Link fixed
    • Worst and Best-Case Coverage in Sensor Networks
  
  
  

Student Presentations

• 10/20 - Saikat Mandal - SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks
• 10/22 - Aarti Singh - Gossip-Based Ad-hoc Routing, ARA – The Ant-Colony Based Routing Algorithm for MANETs
• 10/25 - Jae Young Oh - Energy and Latency Control in Low Duty Cycle MAC protocols
• 10/27 - Hetal - JAM: A Jammed-Area Mapping Service for Sensor Networks
• 10/29 - Chao - Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks
• 11/1 - Chia-Peng - Optimal and Global Time Synchronization in Sensornets
• 11/3 - Niveditha - "Location Estimation Scheme using Connectivity Constraints for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks"
• 11/5 - Ritesh - Peer 2 Peer
• 11/8 - Deep - GEM: Graph Embedding for Routing and Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks Without Geographic Information
• 11/10 - Chandan - Bluetooth and Sensor Networks: A Reality Check
• 11/12 - Su Bong Choi - Energy-Efficient, Collision-Free Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
• 11/15 - Kamal and Mike Nowak - IEEE 802.15 and demo
• 11/17 - Dan - Minimum-Energy Asynchronous Dissemination to Mobile Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks
• 11/19 - Kunal Paymaster - Optimizing Sensor Networks in the Energy-Latency-Density Design Space

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