Sensor Network
Technology
Jan 18-20, 2005
Course Description and
Objective
A sensor network is a number of
sensors such as chemical, biological or solar sensors that
are networked together in a certain fashion to strengthen
the power of sensing. A sensor network can be wired or
wireless depending on where and how the sensors are used.
The applications of sensor network can be military or
civilian. In military, in the battlefield of the future for
instance, a network of sensors enables soldiers to see
around corners and to sense the threat of chemical and
biological weapons long before they get close enough to
cause harm. Sensor networks can also be put to legions of
civilian uses, from environmental monitoring, traffic
control, and to providing heath care monitoring for the
elderly while allowing them more freedom to move about.
This course introduces fundamental concepts of sensor
networks focusing on architectures, protocols, hardware
aspects, and other related issues such as scalability,
fault-tolerance, and security. The basic concept is to
deploy a large number of low-cost, and self-powered sensor
nodes that acquire and process data, and alert users upon an
event to take necessary action. The entire region under
sensing is normally partitioned into equally loaded clusters
of sensor nodes. Nodes are, in another word, inserted in the
vicinity of a certain pre-defined region forming a cluster.
In the sensor network, a base-station monitors and controls
cluster networks and chooses a cluster head (gateway) for
each cluster through which the cluster data is collectively
routed to the base-station. Sensor networks are constructed
with a stack of five layer protocol: physical layer, data
link layer and MAC sub-layer, network layer, transport
layer, and application layer. Sensor nodes normally use the
combination of a tiny operating system and a tiny
database
Who should attend?
This course provides a broad introduction to the
new field of sensor network technology. The course is
intended for engineers and managers in system R&D and
especially for experts in network security who seek
understanding of this new technology for innovation of more
powerful security
systems
Prerequisites
Basic logic
circuits and wireless communications.
Course
Materials
Course Binder: with
lecture notes and other related
materials.
Instructor
Professor
Nader F. Mir
Course
Highlights
Day 1
• Overview of sensor
networks
• Examples of sensor
networks
--
Civilian
--
Military
• Characteristics of sensor networks
• Network
architecture
• Hardware design of sensor nodes
•
Sensing unit
• Design of tiny central Processing
Unit.
• Storage unit,
• Power unit
• Wireless
transceiver
-- RFID technology
• Location finding system.
• Tiny central
memory
Day 2
• Routing
Protocol
•• Physical
Layer
---- Frequency selection, types of wireless media
---- Carrier frequency
generation.
---- Signal detection.
•• Data
Link
Layer
---- Multiplexing of data
streams.
---- Data frame
detection.
---- Medium access.
---- Error
control.
----
Medium Access Control
•• Network
Layer
---- Routing base of
energy.
---- Local base station
••
Clustering Algorithms
Day 3
•
Efficient energy aware routing scheme desired
•
Re-clustering algorithm for the network to change cluster
heads
• Local base-station management
• Data
Aggregation Algorithms
• Fault Tolerance
•
Scalability
• Production Cost
• Energy
saving.
-- Power Saving modes of
Operation
-- Efficient use of
battery:
• Security
--
Techniques to prevent intrusion of data when
moving.
Location
College of Engineering,
Department of Electrical Engineering.
Fee - $995