Code

COMPGZ04

Year

MSc

Prerequisites

Students should have an understanding of the basic principles of networked systems including naming, addressing, routing, protocol operation, design and implementation of network/transport and application-level protocols and middleware.

Term

2

Taught By

Licia Capra (50%)
Stephen Hailes (50%)

Aims

To provide a broad coverage of the main principles of building network-, transport-, and application-level communication protocols and APIs, including middleware. The module is very practical, with a large number of examples in C and Java, and is assessed completely on the basis of coursework that involves a substantial amount of programming.

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to build communications software (protocols, applications and middleware) with standard APIs from C and Java. Students will also gain the knowledge and understanding required to design, build, analyse and test such software.

Introduction and Overview.

An outline of the module, including scope, depth and breadth of material to be covered.

Network Programming

Introduction to Tools - make, ant, cvs, doxygen
Socket Programming
TMote
Contiki
Networking Example Programs

Application Programming

Wireless Sensor Network Applications
Wireless Sensor Network Reference Architecture
Middleware (Coordination) Abstractions
Active Messages
Hood
Logical Neigborhood
TinyLime and TeenyLime
TinyDB

Lecture presentations and lab-sessions.

The course has the following assessment components:

• Coursework Section (1 piece, 100%)

To pass this course, students must:

• Pass the coursework section
• Pass the Coursework (50% or more)

Lecture notes (Licia Capra)

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