Organized by BSNL IITK Telecom Center of Excellence &

Department of Electrical Engineering IITK

Short Course On
Wireless Sensor Networks:
From Theory To Practice
24th to 26th May, 2012

The radical advances in the fields of micro electro-mechanical systems

Important Dates
Course Dates
24th May. - 26th May. 2012
Last Date for Registration
15th April. 2012
(MEMS) semiconductor devices and very large scale transistor integration
coupled with the development of high speed broadband wireless technologies
such as MIMO-OFDM have led to the birth of Wireless sensor networks
(WSN). Long envisioned as the bridge between the modern broadband packet
data networks and the physical world, WSNs have revolutionized real-time
data aggregation and analysis on an unprecedented scale. Naturally, they have
attracted the attention and garnered wide spread appeal towards applications
in diverse areas such as disaster warning systems, crop/environment monitor-
ing, health care, safety and strategic areas such as defense reconnaissance,
surveillance, intruder detection etc. However, WSNs pose unique challenges
towards successful design and implementation of pervasive sensing networks.
On the one hand ensuring sensor data integrity over the error prone fading
wireless channels is a substantial hindrance, especially in the context of en-
ergy constrained wireless sensor nodes. On the other hand, statistical analysis
and classification of massive data sets is logistically complex in such large
scale WSNs. Further, self-organization, trust management and route discovery
hold the key to robust WSN deployment for military applications.

WSNs necessitate the development of innovative algorithms for power man-

Venue agement, sensor communication, information processing, distributed comput-
Seminar Hall ing and dynamic routing. Beginning with an introduction to the foundations
Pioneer Batch Building and background of WSNs, this course is expected to comprehensively cover
IIT Kanpur the theoretical and practical aspects necessary for WSN deployment. Broadly
characterized into the PHY, MAC and Network layers of the standard TCP/IP
stack, the program modules are designed to specialize in individual WSN fo-
cus areas such as information theoretic WSN analysis, data fusion, random-
Contacts ized cooperative transmission, distributed estimation and learning, shortest
WIRELESS path routing, optimal power management policies amongst others. An interac-
Department of tive WSN demonstration session towards the end provides practical exposure
Electrical Engineering to WSN technology.
IIT Kanpur
Kanpur 208016 Target Audience
• Practicing wireless system engineers.
• Graduate students pursuing research in wireless communications.
e-mail
• Teachers of government and private engineering colleges.
wireless@iitk.ac.in

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