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CS 603 - Wireless Sensor Systems - Spring 2004

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Instructor:

     Dr. Ajay K. Gupta

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Updated 12-Apr-2004

01/06/2004

  1. Syllabus discussion
  2. Discussion on general objectives, requirements
  3. WSN project demos

01/08/2004

  1. WSN issues
  2. Lecture 1 notes - (a) WSN brief intro, (b) WCN projects brief demos
  3. Read chapter 1 of the Callaway's WSN textbook.
  4. Additional reading: WSN material in intro and AdHoc and Sensor Network chapter from the Agarawal and Zeng's WNS book.

01/13/2004

  1. Getting started with TinyOS Programming by Mark Terwilliger
  2. Read TinyOS tutorials - Lessons 1-3
  3. Lecture 2 notes

01/14/2004

  1. Attend the CS Colloq talk by Dr. Bo Sun. His talk will be in the networks area. Talk will be A-213 from noon-1pm.

01/15/2004

  1. HW1 due
  2. HW1 demonstrations
  3. Technical report and indepth reading material topic finalized. Topic Assignments.
  4. HW2 given
  5. Read TinyOS tutorials - Lessons 4-6

01/20/2004

  1. WSN projects demos - Ben and Mark
  2. WSN project demos Windows Media file
  3. WCN projects brief demos Windows Media file
  4. HW3 given
  5. Read

    Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks ofr Habitat Monitoring, J. Polstre, R. Szewczyk, A. Mainwaring, and D. Culler, book chapter in prepatation.

    Habitat monitoring: Application driver for wireless communications technology, Alberto Cerpa, Jeremy Elson, Deborah Estrin, Lewis Girod, Michael Hamilton and Jerry Zhao, 2001 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Data Communications in Latin America and the Caribbean, Costa Rica, April 2001

    Energy-Efficient Computing for Wildlife Tracking: Design Tradeoffs and Early Experiences with ZebraNet, Philo Juang, Hide Oki, Yong Wang, Margaret Martonosi, Li-Shiuan Peh, Daniel Rubenstein. in Proceedings of ASPLOS-X, San Jose, October 2002

 

01/21/2004

  1. Attend the CS Colloq talk by Dr. Wei Cui. His talk will be in the networks area. Talk will be A-213 from noon-1pm.

01/22/2004

  1. HW2 due
  2. HW2 discussions/demonstrations
  3. TOSSIM discussion
  4. Lecture 3 TOSSIM notes from NEST retreat
  5. Read TinyOS tutorials - Lesson 7

01/27/2004

  1. WSN HW platforms - a brief overview
  2. Read Chapters 2, 6 and 7 of the Callaway's WSN textbook
  3. Lecture 4 notes

01/29/2004

  1. Class from 11-12:15, topics: TinyOS Communication modules, Active Messages, etc.
  2. HW3 due
  3. HW4 given
  4. From 4:00-5:00pm attend the CS Colloq talk in B-122 by Dr. Leszek Lillian of CERIAS, Purdue University. His talk will be "Developing Pervasive Trust Paradigm for Authentication and Authorization."
  5. Read the following report on NSF's NEON project: Fourth NEON Workshop Report. You are also strongly encouraged to read other reference material on the NEON and related projects.
  6. Lecture 5 notes

02/03/2004

  1. TinyDB discussion led by Mark Terwilliger
  2. Lecture 6 notes
  3. Read the presentations at Sensor Networks Research Day at UCB on Jan 28, 2004.

02/04/2004

  1. Attend the CS Colloq talk by Dr. David Liu of Ohio State University. His talk will be "Differentiated Service Support in Optical Burst Switching WDM Networks." Talk will be from noon-1pm, room A-213 (see fliers outside the CS department).

02/05/2004

  1. TinyOS's RF modules discussion led by Eric Dekoekoek
  2. Lecture 7a Notes by Eric D.
  3. TinyOS's AM modules discussion led by Ivan  Arkhipov
  4. Lecture 7b Notes by Ivan
  5. HW4 due
  6. HW5 given
  7. Read the presentations at MIT's MURI research efforts third year review.
  8. Read Chapter 3 of the Callaway's WSN book.

02/06/2004

  1. Attend the CS Colloq talk by Dr. Alal Faquah. His talk will be on "Routing Framework for All-optical DWDM Metro-Core and Long-Haul Transport Networks with Sparse Wavelength Conversion Capabilities." Talk will be from noon-1pm, room A-213 (see fliers outside the CS department).

 

02/10/2004

  1. TinyOS's GenericComm modules discussion led by Kalyani
  2. Lecture 8 Notes by Kalyani
  3. Nice link for TinyOS documentation from Harvard
  4. Read the presentations at GeoSensor Network Workshop, October 2003
  5. Read chapter 4 of Callaway's WSN textbook.

02/12/2004

  1. Bombilla discussion led by Nirav Prajapati
  2. Lecture 9 Notes by Nirav
  3. MAC layer issues; scheduled-based protocols
  4. Lecture 9a notes
  5. Read chapter 8 of Callaway's WSN textbook.

02/17/2004

  1. Due: progress report one of your project.
  2. Network Reprogramming for motes, Xnp - design, implementation, code discussion led by Saurabh
  3. Lecture 10a notes by Saurabh
  4. Collaborative Signal Processing for sensornets - intro by Huma.
  5. Lecture 10b notes by Huma

02/19/2004

  1. Due: progress report one on the in-depth reading and literature research on the topic assigned to you.
  2. Class cancelled

02/24/2004

  1. MatchBox - design, implementation, code discussion led by Vatsal
  2. Lecture 11 notes by Vatsal

02/26/2004

  1. TinyDB - design, implementation, code discussion led by Prakash
  2. Lecture 12 notes by Prakash

03/9/2004

  1. TASK: Tiny Application Sensor Kit - design, implementation, code discussion led by Suchita
  2. Lecture 13 notes by Suchita

03/11/2004

  1. MAC issues
  2. Lecture 14 notes

03/16/2004

  1. ATEMU - Sensor Network Emulator / Simulator / Debugger, discussion led by Marcel
  2. Lecture 15a notes by Marcel
  3. Reliability issues
  4. Lecture 15b notes

03/18/2004

  1. Midterm exam 1. It will cover material from chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8 of the Callaway's WSN book and the topics covered in the class up to 3/16/04 lectures.

03/23/2004

  1. Localization problems and solutions discussion led by Mark Terwilliger
  2. Lecture 16 notes by Mark

03/25/2004

  1. EmStar - discussion led by Eric
  2. Lecture 17 notes by Eric

03/30/2004

  1. Routing and Data Dissemination discussion led by Kalyani
  2. Lecture 18 notes by Kalyani

04/01/2004

  1. Data Sotorage, Data Compression, Data Management - discussion led by Prakash
  2. Lecture 19 notes by Prakash
  3. PSFQ - Pump Slowly Fetch Quickly paper - Providing Reliability in WSNs
  4. PSFQ notes

04/06/2004

  1. Security issues in WSNs - discussion led by Vijay Bhuse
  2. Lecture 20 notes by Vijay

04/08/2004

  1. Applications of WSNs - discussion led by Vatsal
  2. Lecture 21a notes by Vatsal
  3. Biomedical Applications of WSNs by Marcel
  4. Lecture 21b notes by Marcel
  5. Topology Discovery using GAs - project presentation - Mark

04/13/2004

  1. Project presentations - Ben, Saurabh, Eric, Ivan

04/15/2004

  1. Project presentations - Huma, Kalyani/Suchita, Vatsal/Nirav, Prakash

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  1. Sensor Networks

 

 

 

 

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