Reading List

  • Tue, Apr 4:  Introduction and course overview

Thu, Apr 6: Sensor network applications

    • Using Pervasive Computing to Deliver Elder Care, Vince Stanford, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2002.
    • Realistic Application for Wireless Sensor Networks, Stankovic, J.A., Wood, A.D.,He, T;  Theoretical Aspects of Distributed Computing in Sensor Networks. An EATCS Series; Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany, 2011; pp. 835–863.

Tue, Apr 11:  Platforms 

Thu, Apr 13:  Deployment issues 

    • A. Howard, M.J. Mataric, and G.S. Sukhatme, An Incremental Self-Deployment Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Networks, Autonomous Robots, Special Issue on Intelligent Embedded Systems, January 2002.
    • K. Veenstra and K. Obraczka, “Guiding Sensor-Node Deployment Over 2.5D Terrain”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2015. 

Tue, Apr 18:  Cooja/Contiki and ns-3 tutorials

Thu, Apr 20: Time Synchronzation

    • J. Elson, L. Girod, D. Estrin, "Fine-Grained Network Time Synchronization using Reference Broadcasts", OSDI 2002
    • Anthony Rowe, Vikram Gupta, Raj Rajkumar, "Low-power Clock Synchronization using Electromagnetic Energy Radiating from AC Power Lines," 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2009.

Tue, Apr 25: Localization

    • A. Savvides, L. Girod, M. Srivastava, and D. Estrin, "Localization in Sensor Networks', Book Chapter, Wireless Sensor Networks, Edited by Znati, Radhavendra and Sivalingam. 
    • Yi Shang , Hongchi Shi , Ahmed Ahmed, "Performance Study of Localization Methods in Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks", IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2004.
    • E. Elnahrawy, X. Li, and R. P. Martin, "The Limits of Localization Using Signal Strength: A Comparative Study", SECON 2004.

Thu, Apr 27: Medium Access Control

    • W. Ye, J. Heidemann, D. Estrin, "Medium Access Control with Co-ordinated Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2004. 
    • M. Buettner, G.V. Yee, E. Anderson, and R. Han, "X-MAC: A Short Preamble MAC Protocol for Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Sensys, November 2006.
    • I. Rhee, A. Warrier, M. Aia, and J. Min, "Z-MAC: a Hybrid MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks", ACM Sensys05, November 2005.

Tue, May 2: Routing

    • C. Intanagonwiwat, R. Govindan, D. Estrin , "Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks", ACM MobiCOM 2000.
    • T. Tsvetkov, “RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low Power and Lossy Networks”, Sensor NodesOperation, Network and Application (SN), vol. 59, p. 2, 2011.
    • S. Nath and P.B. Gibbons, "Communicating via Fireflies: Geographic Routing on Duty-Cycled Sensors", IPSN, April 2007.

Thu, May 4: Topology Control

    • F. Ye, G. Zhong, S. Lu, and L. Zhang. "PEAS: A robust Energy conserving Protocol for Long-lived Sensor Networks", 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP02), November 12-15, 2000.
    • A. Cerpa and D. Estrin, "ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring sEnsor Networks Topologies", INFOCOM'02, June 2002.
    • B. Chen, K. Jamieson, H. Balakrishnan, and R. Morris, "Span: an Energy-Efficient Coordination Algorithm for Topology Maintenance in Ad Hoc Wireless Network", ACM Wireless Networks Journal, 8, 5, 481-494, September 2002.

Tue, May 9: Transport Layer

    • F. Stann and J. Heidemann, RMST: Reliable Data Transport in Sensor Networks, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications, May 2003.
    • C.Y. Wan, S.B. Eisenman, and A.T. Campbell, CODA: Congestion Detection and Avoidance in Sensor Networks, The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys03), November 2003.
    •  Sukun Kim, Rodrigo Fonseca, David Culler, Reliable Transfer on Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE SECON, October 2004.

Thu, May 11: Energy Management

    • Cintia B. Margi and Katia Obraczka, "Instrumenting Network Simulators for Evaluating Energy Consumption in Power-Aware Ad-Hoc Network Protocols", IEEE/ACM MASCOTS 2004.
    • Victor Shnayder, Mark Hempstead, Bor-rong Chen, Geoff Werner-Allen, and Matt Welsh. Simulating the Power Consumption of Large-Scale Sensor Network Applications. SenSys'04.
    • Raquel A.F. Mini, Max do Val Machado, Antonio A.F. Loureiro and Badri Nath, "Prediction-based energy map for wireless sensor networks", Elsevier Ad-hoc Networks Journal (special issue on Ad Hoc Networking for Pervasive Systems), March 2005.

Tue, May 16: Data Aggregation  

    • Ignacio Solis and Katia Obraczka, "Efficient Continuous Mapping in Sensor Networks using Isolines", ACM Mobiquitous'05, July 2005.
    • K-W Fan, S. Liu, and P. Sinha, "Scalable Data Aggregation for Dynamic Events in Sensor Networks", ACM Sensys, November 2006
    • J. Gao, L. Guibas, J. Hershberger, and N. Milosavijevic, "Sparse Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", IPSN, April 2007.

Thu, May 18: Storage  

    • S. Shenker, S. Ratnasamy, B. Karp, R. Govindan, and D. Estrin, "Data-Centric Storage in Sensornets", ACM SIGCOMM, Computer Communications Review, Vol. 33, Num. 1, January 2003.
    • G. Mathur, P. Desnoyers, D. Ganesan, and P. Shenoy, "Capsule: An Energy-Optimized Object Storage System for Memory-Constrained Sensor Devices", ACM Sensys, November 2006.
    • Nicolas Tsiftes, Adam Dunkels, Zhitao He, and Thiemo Voigt (SICS), "Enabling Large-Scale Storage in Sensor Networks with the Coffee File System", ACM/IEEE IPSN 2009.

Tue, May 23: Querying

    • S. Madden, M.J. Franklin, J.M. Hellerstein, and W. Hong, "TAG: a Tiny AGgregation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks", 5th Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002), December 2002.
    • Y. Yao and J. Gehrke, "The cougar Approach to In-Network Query Processing in Sensor Networks", SIGMOD, March 2002.
    • Kok Kiong Yap, Vikram Srinivasan, Mehul Motani, "MAX: Human-Centric Search of the Physical World", Sensys 2005, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2005.

Thu, May 25: Security

    • A. Perrig, R. Szewczyk, J.D. Tygar, V. Wen, D. Culler, "SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Volume 8 Issue 5, September 2002.
    • Chris Karlof and David Wagner. "Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures". Ad Hoc Networks 1 (2003). Elsevier B.V. pp. 293–315.
    • Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry, and David Wagner. "TinySec: A Link Layer Security Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks". SenSys’04, November 3–5, 2004.

Thu, June 1: IoT

Tue, June 6: IoT Security