Due to the advances in electronics and (wireless) communication, the development of networks of low-cost, low-power, multi-functional sensors has received increasing attention. These sensor networks are a new type of networked, embedded computing systems and are expected to become a key technology for many pervasive computing applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This lecture covers the fundamental concepts of sensor networks, including hard- and software architectures, networking aspects, power-awareness, security and sensor fusion. The lecture is complemented by student talks on selected, application-oriented topics. In a related lab course (“Sensor Networks Lab”), students can get hands-on experience in developing sensor network applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The course takes place in the summer term and has two teaching units per week. Please check the AAU Campus site<\/a> for details on schedule and lecture rooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This course is primarily indented for master students in ECE or CS and PhD students in engineering. It is a mandatory course for the study branch “Communications and Networks” of the study program on “Information and Communications Engineering (ICE)”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The course aims to cover the key technologies and methods found in sensor networks and internet of things (IoT). Participants should have passed (bachelor) courses on computer networks<\/em>, communications engineering<\/em> and programming<\/em>. For students specializing in “pervasive computing”, it is recommended to take this course in the second semester.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related (master) courses include pervasive computing (Rinner)<\/em>, wireless networks (Bettstetter)<\/em>, digital signal processing (Rinner)<\/em> and sensors and actuators (Zangl)<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The course material<\/a> is available via the links below. Most of the documents are passwort protected. The passwort will be provided for enrolled students at the beginning of the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Code of Conduct (PDF)<\/a> for studies of the Faculty of Technical Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n List of available topics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is an oral exam at the end of the semester. No documents are allowed. Both parts must be successfully completed to pass the examination. One compensation is offered to students who failed in either of these examination parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sensing and Sensors; Sensor Network Applications; Trends in Sensor Network Development; Challenges in Sensor Networks<\/p>\n\n\n\n WSN Node Architecture; Sensors; Processing Systems; I\/O Interfaces; Node Examples; Energy Sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n Operating Systems Basic: Requirements and Features; Sensor Network OS Case Studies; WSN Middleware Examples<\/p>\n\n\n\n MAC Overview (Characteristics, Challenges and Requirements, Contention-Based vs. Contention-Free); Overview (Centralized vs. Multi-hop, Address-based vs. Data-centric); Overview (Motivation and Requirements, Challenges, Definitions and Basic Techniques); Visual Sensor Networks; Threats and attack patterns; Design challenges; Approaches towards security (data-centric, network-centric, node-centric, user-centric); Privacy in VSNs; Open issues and outlook<\/p>\n\n\n\n Due to the advances in electronics and (wireless) communication, the development of networks of low-cost, low-power, multi-functional sensors has received increasing attention. These sensor networks are a new type of networked, embedded computing systems and are expected to become a key technology for many pervasive computing applications. This lecture covers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":36,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6140"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7391,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6140\/revisions\/7391"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernhardrinner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Prerequisites and Related Courses<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Student presentations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Exam<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
The examination consists of two parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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1. Introduction<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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2. Hardware<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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3. Software<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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4. MAC Protocols<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Contention-Free Protocol Examples (TRAMA, Y-MAC);
Contention-Based Protocols (MACA\/W, S-MAC, B-MAC)
Hybrid Protocols (Zebra MAC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
5. Routing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Data-centric Forwarding (Flooding, Gossiping, SPIN, Direct Diffusion, Rumor Routing);
Address-based Routing (AODV, DSR, DSDV, GPSR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
6. Synchronization<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Time Synchronization Protocols (Reference Broadcast Synchronization, Time-Diffusion Sync Protocol, Timing-Sync Protocol for Sensor Networks, Lightweight Tree-based Synchronization, Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
7. Security and Privacy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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