NC7202 WIRELESS ADHOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS

NC7202 WIRELESS ADHOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS

UNIT I        ADHOC NETWORKS AND ROUTING PROTOCOLS

Ad hoc Wireless Networks –What is an Ad Hoc Network? Heterogeneity in Mobile Devices –Wireless Sensor Networks – Traffic Profiles – Types of Ad hoc Mobile Communications – Types of Mobile Host Movements – Challenges Facing Ad hoc Mobile Networks – Ad hoc wireless Internet . Issues in Designing a Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks – Classifications of Routing Protocols – Table–Driven Routing Protocols – Destination Sequenced Distance Vector (DSDV) – Wireless Routing Protocol (WRP) – Cluster Switch Gateway Routing (CSGR) – Source–Initiated On– Demand Approaches – Ad hoc On–Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV) – Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) –Temporally Ordered Routing Algorithm (TORA) – Signal Stability Routing (SSR) – Location–Aided Routing (LAR) – Power–Aware Routing (PAR) – Zone Routing Protocol (ZRP).

UNIT II      MULTICAST ROUTING AND SECURITY

Issues in Designing a Multicast Routing Protocol – Operation of Multicast Routing Protocols – An Architecture Reference Model for Multicast Routing Protocols –Classifications of  Multicast Routing Protocols – Tree–Based Multicast Routing Protocols– Mesh–Based Multicast Routing Protocols – Summary of Tree and Mesh based Protocols – Energy–Efficient Multicasting – Multicasting with Quality of Service Guarantees – Application – Dependent Multicast Routing – Comparisons of Multicast Routing Protocols - Design Goals of a Transport Layer Protocol for Ad hoc Wireless Networks –Classification of Transport Layer Solutions – TCP over Ad hoc Wireless Networks- Security in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks – Network Security Requirements – Issues and Challenges in Security Provisioning – Network Security Attacks – Key Management – Secure Routing in Ad hoc Wireless Networks. 

UNIT III      QoS AND ENERGY MANAGEMENT

Issues and Challenges in Providing QoS in Ad hoc Wireless Networks – Classifications of QoS Solutions – MAC Layer Solutions – Network Layer Solutions – QoS Frameworks for Ad hoc Wireless Networks Energy Management in Ad hoc Wireless Networks – Introduction – Need for Energy Management in Ad hoc Wireless Networks – Classification of Energy Management Schemes – Battery Management Schemes – Transmission Power Management Schemes – System Power Management Schemes. 

UNIT IV  SENSOR NETWORKS – ARCHITECTUREAND MACPROTOCOLS

Single node architecture – Hardware components, energy consumption of sensor nodes, Network architecture – Sensor network scenarios, types of sources and sinks, single hop versus multi-hop networks, multiple sinks and sources, design principles, Development of wireless sensor networks. , physical layer and transceiver design consideration in wireless sensor networks, Energy usage profile, choice of modulation, Power Management - MAC protocols – fundamentals of wireless MAC protocols,  low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts, contention-based protocols,  Schedulebased protocols - SMAC, BMAC, Traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA), Link Layer protocols – fundamentals task and requirements, error control, framing,  link management. 

UNIT V SENSOR NETWORKS – ROUTING  PROTOCOLS  AND OPERATING SYSTEMS

Gossiping and agent-based uni-cast forwarding, Energy-efficient unicast, Broadcast and multicast, geographic routing, mobile nodes, Data-centric routing – SPIN, Directed Diffusion, Energy aware routing, Gradient-based routing – COUGAR, ACQUIRE, Hierarchical Routing – LEACH, PEGASIS, Location Based Routing – GAF, GEAR, Data aggregation – Various aggregation techniques. Introduction to TinyOS – NesC, Interfaces, modules, configuration, Programming in TinyOS using NesC, Emulator TOSSIM

REFERENCES: 

1. C. Siva Ram Murthy and B. S. Manoj, “Ad Hoc Wireless Networks Architectures and Protocols”, Prentice Hall, PTR, 2004. 

2. C. K. Toh, “Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks Protocols and Systems”, Prentice Hall, PTR, 2001. 3. Charles E. Perkins, “Ad Hoc Networking”, Addison Wesley, 2000. 

4. Kazem Sohraby, Daniel Minoli and Taieb Znati, “ Wireless Sensor Networks TechnologyProtocols and Applications”, John Wiley & Sons, 2007. 

5. Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas, “Wireless Sensor Networks: an information processing approach”, Else vier publication, 2004. 

6. C.S.Raghavendra Krishna, M.Sivalingam and Tarib znati, “Wireless Sensor Networks”,   Springer publication, 2004. 

7. Holger Karl , Andreas willig, “Protocol  and Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks”,  John wiley publication, Jan 2006.

8. K.Akkaya and M.Younis, “ A Survey of routing protocols in wireless sensor networks”, Elsevier Adhoc Network Journal, Vol.3, no.3,pp. 325-349, 2005. 

9. Philip Levis, “ TinyOS Programming”, 2006 – www.tinyos.net. 

10.I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci, “Wireless sensor networks: a survey”, computer networks, Elsevier, 2002, 394 - 422. 

11.Jamal N. Al-karaki, Ahmed E. Kamal, “Routing Techniques in Wireless sensor networks: A survey”, IEEE wireless communication, December 2004, 6 – 28.