JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

UNIT - I

Introduction: Unique constraints and challenges, advantages of Sensor Networks, Sensor Network Applications, Collaborative Processing, Overview and applications of Wireless Sensor Networks, Basic Wireless Sensor Technology-Sensor Node Technology, Sensor Taxonomy, WN operating Environment, WN trends. Radio Propagation primer.

UNIT - II

MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: Introduction, Background, Fundamentals of MAC protocols, MAC protocols for WSNs, Sensor-MAC case study, IEEE 802.15.4 LR- WPANs standard case study.

UNIT - III

Routing protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: Introduction, background, Data dissemination and gathering, routing challenges and design issues, routing strategies in wireless sensor networks. Networking Sensors: Key assumptions, Medium Access Control, General Issues, Geographic, Energy-Aware Routing, Attribute-based Routing.

UNIT - IV

Transport Control protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks: Traditional Transport control protocols, Transport protocol design issues, Examples of existing transport control protocols, performance of transport control protocols. Performance and Traffic Management: Introduction, background, WSN Design Issues, Performance Modeling of WSNs, Case Study-Simple computation of the system life span.

UNIT - V

Network Management for Wireless Sensor Networks: Introduction, Network management requirements, traditional network management models, network management design issues, MANNA, Naming and Localization. Operating Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks: Introduction, operating system design issues, Examples of operating systems-TinyOS, Mate, MagnetOS, MANTIS, OSPM, EYES OS, SenOS, EMERALDS, PicOS.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Wireless Sensor Networks- Technology, protocols and applications, Kazem Sohraby, Daniel Minoli and Taieb Znati, Wiley Student Edition.
• 2. Wireless Sensor Networks-An Information processing approach, Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas, Morgan Kaufmann publications, 2004. R16 B.TECH ECM.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Adhoc Mobile Wireless Networks-Principles, Protocols and Applications, Subir kumar Sarkar, T G Basavaraju and C Puttamadappa, Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis group.
• 2. Adhoc Wireless Networks-Architectures and Protocols, C. Siva Ram Murthy and B.S. Manoj, Pearson Education. R16 B.TECH ECM.