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Instructors: Dr.-Ing. Doreen Böhnstedt
Event type:
Exercise
Org-unit: Dept. 18 - Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Displayed in timetable as:
WSN
Subject:
Crediting for:
Hours per week:
1
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Course Contents:
The lecture Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) presents an overview on fundamentals and applications of WSNs. A wireless sensor network is a collection of tiny, autonomously powered devices -- commonly called sensor nodes -- endowed with sensing, communication, and processing capabilities. Once deployed over a region of interest, sensor nodes can collect fine-grained measurements of physical variables, like the temperature of a glacier, the concentration of a pollutant, or the electricity consumption of a building. To report their readings to one or more data sinks, sensor nodes communicate using their integrated radio-transceivers and build ad-hoc – possibly multi-hop -- relay networks. Thanks to the potentially large number of nodes they are composed of and their ability to operate unattended for long periods of time, wireless sensor networks allow monitoring the environment at an unprecedented spatial and temporal scale.
The lecture provides an overview on applications and fundamental topics within and beyond WSNs. This includes hardware platforms, programming, energy-efficient medium access control and routing, data collection and dissemination, localization, synchronization, and integration of WSNs with the Internet and the Web.
The lecture also includes hand-on tutorials on WSN programming during which students will be given the possibility to implement and deploy simple applications using real WSN hardware.
Literature:
Lecture notes as well as selected readings will be made available during the lecture. The following books are also recommended:
[1] Protocols and Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks: H. Karl and A. Willig, Wiley, Chichester, 2005, ISBN 0-470-09510-5.
[2] Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach: F. Zhao and L. Guibas, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, 2004, ISBN 1-55860-914-8.
Preconditions:
The lecture Wireless Sensor Networks is open to Masters students but is also suitable for advanced Bachelor students. Familiarity with fundamentals of wireless communication, distributed systems, and operating systems is beneficial.
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