Outline
Ad Hoc Networks
This course focuses on the practical aspect of Ad hoc Networks, covering both Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). It starts with a introductory lecture on ad hoc networks and later, each group of students acquires in-depth knowledge of a specific research area. Each group will have up to three students, working collaboratively on a carefully selected research project, e.g. an implementation or a simulation of ad hoc networks. Hence, the course will be consisting of following three phases:
- Literature survey
Introduction to wireless networking, hardware, programming, communication protocols. - Practical
learning
To gain expertise in wireless communication programming on hardware nodes or network simulation. - Research project
To acquire an in-depth knowledge of a specific research area in wireless networking and implement/simulate an ad hoc network.
The hardware available for wireless sensor
network programming consists of MICA2
motes with MTS
sensors boards and Scatterweb-ESB/eGate/ECR
motes. On the other
hand, for MANET, we use a combination of Linux-based laptops and single
board computers, Gumstix, as
the
mobile nodes of a real world test bed. In addition, the network
simulator, OMNET++,
is used for simulation purpose.
Organization
This course can be visited by bachelor and master students of computer science and applied computer science. We accept the following study terms. Depending on the ECTS points we will adapt the workload for the students.- Bachelor of Computer Science
- Project (ECTS: 6)
- Bachelor thesis (ECTS: 12+3)
- Master of Computer Science
- Lab course (ECTS: 6)
- Team-Project (ECTS: 14)
- Master thesis* (ECTS: 30)
For master and bachelor theses please contact us in advance.