Seminar: Wireless Sensor Networks SS 09

Description

Embedded everywhere, hundreds of tiny nodes detect activities in the real world, generating data that is used to feed different systems, keeping the users informed about the current system state and supporting them in the decision of how to actuate next. Sensor networking technology is being applied in many environments and with multiple purposes: transportation and logistics, for structural health monitoring, habitat monitoring, precision agriculture, tourism, smart ambients, sports and entertainment, amongst others. (A more graphical motivation can be seen in our PDF poster)

These networks are composed of low-cost, low-power miniaturized sensor and actuator nodes that communicate untethered across short distances to carry out their collective tasks. For these sensor networks to work, sophisticated architectures and efficient communication protocols must be developed to allow large amount of nodes collect, process and disseminate data.

In this seminar the current state and future deployment of WSNs and familiar technologies and applications will be explored.

Goals

Get to know WSN technologies in general and a particular topic in depth. Additionally, you will enhance your skills to work in a small group, do bibliography research, evaluate technical articles, elaborate a final document, do a peer review and perform a final oral presentation.

List of Topics

The list of topics that will be covered is as follows:

1. Event-based Sensor Networks
2. In-Network Processing
3. IPv6 in Wireless Sensor Networks
4. Middleware for heterogeneous Systems
5. WSN Activity Detection for Longitudinal Deployments
6. Time Synchronization in WSNs
7. Routing Techniques in WSNs
8. Self description

Assignment's Formal Requirements

The work modality will vary, with groups of either 2 or 3 people.

Document Format

The seminar will only accept submissions in Adobe PDF format. We require that submissions conform to the IEEE conference paper as given in this LaTeX template. We have included a template file (sem_template.tex) as a starting point for the document, and a bibliography file (sem_template.bib) for the bibliographic entries. See sample manuscript as a visual aid for formatting and styles. Note that the use of LaTeX for typesetting and BibTex for bibliography management is enforced.

The length of the manuscript will be precised by the corresponding supervisor. It should be, however, between 3 and 4 pages per student, including text, figures and references.

Review Process

After submitting the documents, each group will receive around 2~3 other students' documents to perform a peer review. Reviews should include:

• a summary of the reviewed paper
• comments for the authors
• a list of positive and negative aspects.

Reviews must contain constructive critiques.

Evaluation

For the final grades we will consider: your effort on bibliography research, elaboration of the preliminary and final document, team cooperation, quality of your reviews and your oral presentation.

Schedule

Below, we list the important dates of this seminar. You can also subscribe to the iCal calendar.

When	What	Where	Remember me!
17.04.2009, 14:00	Kick-Off meeting	S2|02 E202
15.06.2009	Delivery of the document's preliminary version via email (before midnight)
16.06.2009	Start of review process
01.07.2009 (!)	End of review process. Delivery of the filled Review Forms. Begin adaptation of final document.
21.07.2009	Delivery of the document's final version and the slides
30.07.2009	Oral presentations (every group)	S2|02 MFR A126

Oral Presentations

To be added

Course Slides

Introduction to WSNs (PDF, 11.5 MB)

General Bibliography

In addition to the material provided by your supervisor, the university and/or the participating groups have the following related books available: