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Introduction to Sensor Networks

FDA193, 2006VT

Status Archive
School Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Division IDA
Owner Petru Eles
Homepage http://www.ida.liu.se/~petel/SN/

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Course plan

No of lectures

24 h

Recommended for

Graduate students in Computer Science and Computer Systems.

The course was last given

New course.

Goals

Sensor networks have become more and more popular as a solution
to various large scale networked applications in very diverse areas.
This course is an introduction to the problematic of sensor networks.
The approach is from a high level, information processing, perspective.
The course addresses issues such as networking and energy-aware
routing, distributed data access, localization and time, infrastructure,
platforms and tool support.

Prerequisites

Organization

The course will consist of a series of lectures. In addition,
there will be seminars with presentations by the students.

Contents

Sensor networks: Constraints and Challenges
Network infrastructure
Energy-aware routing
Time synchronization
Localization
Data management
Platforms and tools

Literature

Wireless Sensor Networks
by
Feng Zhao and Leonidas Guibas
Elsevier - Morgan Kaufmann, 2004

Lecturers

Petru Eles, Zebo Peng, Paul Pop

Examiner

Petru Eles, Zebo Peng, Paul Pop

Examination

Seminar presentation and written report.

Credit

4 points

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