Wireless Sensor Networks

Contact Person
Faisal Aslam

Objective
The aim of this course, is to carry out a research project in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). For the first seven weeks each student will read an assigned paper per week, from a selected field and writes it's summary. Based on the paper read during first seven week, a group of students has to suggest a novel research project. That group have to carry out detail research work and may read more papers in their selected research field. Note that, this course is paper-centric and has no textbook. We assume that you are comfortable with C programming and has good analytical thinking. You will learn nesC (a variant C language) and TinyOS (a operating system for WSN) during the lab work. In case you have any question/concerns, feel free to leave an anonymous message on forum or sent a private email.

Grading policy (detailed policy is here)
  • Paper summaries 10%
  • Quiz 10%
  • Practical Exercise 10%
  • Final Project 70%
    • Initial Presentation 5%
    • Mid term report 25%
    • Final report and presentation 40%
Paper summaries submission policies
  • One day late submission is allowed with 50% grade deduction
    • No credit will be given after that.
  • Summary should not be longer than 400 words and one page
  • Each summary should be submitted by email, before the beginning of the class. Otherwise 50% grade deduction rule will be applied on it.
  • A summary should be submitted in only pdf format.
  • A good summary should have following qualities
    • It should highlight all major contributions of paper.
    • It should mention paper strengths and weeknesses.
    • You should be able to point out any questions un-answered by the paper or how could you might improve their work.