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Here follows a list of possible project topics, but you are encouraged to come up with your own topic.
O. Gnawali, R. Fonseca, K. Jamieson, D. Moss, and P. Levis, "Collection Tree Protocol", SenSys'09
We will refer to this paper as the CTP (Collection Tree Protocol) paper. It describes and evaluates the Collection Tree Protocol, a routing protocol for many-to-one stationary sensor networks. The TinyOS implementation of the CTP is publicly available. You are expected to learn how CTP works and test it out on your motes and/or on the MoteLab testbed. As stated above, your task is to extend the CTP paper. The expected output is a well-written and carefully typeset 5-page paper. Ideally, your paper will lead to a poster or even a workshop publication. Note that the contribution of each student must be made very clear.
Possible extensions include: repeating the performance evaluation under particularly challenging conditions, such as very poor connectivity, and see what changes; selective evaluation of a specific subsystem of the protocol; testing of proposed improvements.