Wireless Sensor Networks Architectures and Protocols (Arhitecturi de retele de senzori si protocoale)

1. WSN Applications (a) Great Duck Island (b) Smart Dust (c) Golden Gate Bridge 2. Physical layer and MAC (a) Key physical properties of nodes (b) Data transmission problems (hidden node, exposed node, energy eciency, etc.) (c) MAC protocols 3. Routing in WSNs (a) Problems encountered in WSN routing (b) Multi-hop routing (c) Routing algorithms: DSDV, AODV, DSR. 4. Power management (a) Main problems in WSN power management (b) Duty cycling (c) Power management via node synchronization (d) Using events instead of polling 5. Programming models for WSNs (a) Particularities of compilers targetting WSN nodes (example: nesC) (b) Event-driven + split-phase programming (TinyOS) (c) Sequential ow of control (protothreads in ContikiOS)

6. WSN platforms (a) MICA2 (b) IRIS (c) Arduino 7. WSN Operating Systems (a) Why is it useful to have an OS on a node? (b) TinyOS (c) ContikiOS 8. Security in WSNs

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