Anna University 2013 Regulation - CS6003 Ad hoc and Sensor Networks - Syllabus - Download

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9

Fundamentals of Wireless Communication Technology – The Electromagnetic Spectrum – Radio propagation 
Mechanisms – Characteristics of the Wireless Channel -mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) and wireless sensor networks 
(WSNs) :concepts and architectures. Applications of Ad Hoc and Sensor networks. Design Challenges in Ad hoc and 
Sensor Networks.

UNIT II MAC PROTOCOLS FOR AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS 9

Issues in designing a MAC Protocol- Classification of MAC Protocols- Contention based protocols- Contention based 
protocols with Reservation Mechanisms- Contention based protocols with Scheduling Mechanisms – Multi channel 

MAC-IEEE 802.11

UNIT III ROUTING PROTOCOLS AND TRANSPORT LAYER IN AD HOC WIRELESS NETWORKS 9

Issues in designing a routing and Transport Layer protocol for Ad hoc networks- proactive routing, reactive routing (on-
demand), hybrid routing- Classification of Transport Layer solutions-TCP over Ad hoc wireless Networks.

UNIT IV WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (WSNS) AND MAC PROTOCOLS 9

Single node architecture: hardware and software components of a sensor node - WSN Network architecture: typical 
network architectures-data relaying and aggregation strategies -MAC layer protocols: self-organizing, Hybrid 
TDMA/FDMA and CSMA based MAC- IEEE 802.15.4.

UNIT V WSN ROUTING, LOCALIZATION & QOS 9

Issues in WSN routing – OLSR- Localization – Indoor and Sensor Network Localization-absolute and relative localization, triangulation-QOS in WSN-Energy Efficient Design-Synchronization-Transport Layer issues.

Anna University 2013 Regulation - CS6003 Ad hoc and Sensor Networks - Syllabus - Download