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| Lecture No. | Date | Topics | Readings | Notes |
| 1 | Jan 4 | Course Overview, Introduction |
[Estrin02] |
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| SENSOR NETWORK ORGANIZATION | ||||
| 2 | Jan 6 | Sensor Coverage and Deployment | Chapter 2 | HW1 assigned. |
| 3 | Jan 11 | Sensor Calibration | Chapter 3, [Bychkovskiy03] |
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| 4 | Jan 13 | Sensor Localization | Chapter 4, [Bulusu00] |
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| 5 | Jan 18 | Time Synchronization | Chapter 5, [Elson02] |
HW1 Due. HW 2 Assigned. |
| 6 | Jan 20 | Energy Conservation | Chapter 6 | |
| 7 | Jan 25 | Multi-hop Routing | Chapter 7 | |
| 8 | Jan 27 | Reliable Transport and Congestion Control | Chapter 8, [Hull04] |
HW2 Due. HW 3 Assigned. |
| 9 | Feb 1 | Sensor-Coordinated Actuation | Chapter 9 | Programming Assignment Specified. |
| 10 | Feb 3 | Energy Harvesting | Chapter 10 | |
| 11 | Feb 8 | Sensor Network Tomography | Chapter 11 |
HW 3 Due. |
| 12 | Feb 10 | MIDTERM EXAM | ||
| SENSOR NETWORK MIDDLEWARE | ||||
| 13 | Feb 15 | Data-centric Communications | Chapter 12, [Heidemann01], [Hu04] |
HW 4 Assigned. |
| 14 | Feb 17 | Storage | Chapter 13, [Ratnasamy02] |
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| 15 | Feb 22 | Macroprogramming | Chapter 14, [Greenstein04], [Levis04] |
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| 16 | Feb 24 | Security, Privacy and Fault-tolerance | Chapter 15 | HW 4 Due. HW 5 Assigned. |
| Real-World Experience | ||||
| 17 | Mar 1 | Habitat Monitoring | Chapter 16, 17 [Szewczyk04] |
Programming assignment Due. |
| 18 | Mar 3 | Defence and Workplace Applications | Chapter 18, 19 | |
| ADVANCED TOPICS | ||||
| 19 | Mar 8 | Collaborative Signal Processing | [Chu01], [Gibbons03] | HW5 Due. |
| 20 | Mar 10 | Mobile, multi-modal sensor networks | [Kaiser04], [Joy00] | |
| 21 | Mar 14-19 (TBD) | FINAL EXAM |