1. Sensor Networks (Spring 2004) Instructor: Instructor:Dr. Damla Turgut Office: Office:450 ENGR 1 Bldg Office Phone: Office Phone:(407) 823-6171 Email: Email:turgut@cs.ucf.eduturgut@cs.ucf.edu Web: Web:http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~turguthttp://www.cs.ucf.edu/~turgut Class Time: Class Time:Tuesday and Thursday 9am-10:10am Office Hours: Office Hours:Tuesday and Thursday 10:30am-12pm TA: TA:Majid Ali Khan Office: Office:265 ENGR 1 Bldg Office Phone: Office Phone:(407) 823-6365 Office Hours: Office Hours:Monday 2:00pm – 4:00pm and Friday 3:00pm – 5:00pm Email: Email:khan@bond.cs.ucf.edukhan@bond.cs.ucf.edu Prerequisites: Prerequisites:EEL 6785 (Computer Network Design) and/or EEL 4781 (Computer Networks) Textbooks Textbooks:No required textbook!

2. Sensor Networks (Spring 2004) Reference Books: 1.Agrawal and Zhang, Introduction to Wireless and Mobile Systems, Thomson Brooks/Cole, 2003 2.Nicopolitidis, Obaidat, Papadimitriou, and Pomportsis, Wireless Networks, Wiley, 2003 3.Thurwachter, Wireless Networking, Prentice Hall, 2002 4.Stojmenovic, Handbook of Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, Wiley, 2002 5.Selected research papers from journals, conferences and technical reports Course Objectives: The course is designed for advanced level graduate students. The course objectives are to provide the students with an:  understanding of current sensor networks theory and practice  opportunity to work on projects related to applications of sensor networks  experience on reading and writing research papers Course Description:  Special Topics Course  Survey of state of the art  Design and development of various research topics

3. Sensor Networks (Spring 2004) Class Project: The class projects require  design and simulation of a chosen research topic  usage of one of the recommended network simulator packages for the simulation of the proposed algorithm and/or protocol  verification of the simulation results with analytical analysis  written report including the research project findings and  Initial and final presentations Grading Scheme:  Individual or group project (max. 2 students) => 55%  Assignments => 15%  Exam => 25%  Attendance => 5% No make-ups will be provided for missing any deadlines!

4. Paper Reviews: Written reviews (hard copies) for each paper to be discussed in class for the coming week are due at the beginning of Thursdays class period of the previous week The soft copies of the reviews should be sent to TA’s email account at the same time For each paper, students should write a review answering each of the following questions: 1. What problems (with prior work or the lack thereof) were addressed or surveyed by the authors? 2. What solutions were proposed or surveyed by the authors? 3. What are the technical strengths and main contributions of the paper's proposed solutions? 4. What are the technical weaknesses of the paper's proposed solutions? 5. What suggestions do you have to improve upon the paper's ideas? Sensor Networks (Spring 2004)