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The development of microcontrollers, communication technology, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and nanotechnology allowed for research and development of new systems for sensing and communication called wireless sensor networks.

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  1. Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, USA

    Rastko R. Selmic

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA

    Vir V. Phoha

  3. Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

    Abdul Serwadda

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Questions and Exercises

Questions and Exercises

  1. 1.

    Describe Aloha protocol. What is the difference between Pure Aloha and Slotted Aloha protocols?

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    What are important design factors when wireless sensor networks are considered?

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    Describe one military application that uses wireless sensor networks. Can you think of a novel military application that uses the power of distributed sensing?

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    Research and articulate your own idea about a novel WSN application. Ask yourself who would buy such product/application and why? Research if there exist already a similar application using WSNs.

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    What are Medium Access Control (MAC), TDMA, FDMA?

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    What are specifics of an S-MAC protocol?

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    Describe basics of ZibBee protocol. What is the difference between ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 protocol?

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    What is the IEEE 1451 standard used for and why it is developed originally?

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    Describe chemical agents monitoring application and how cantilever-based sensors can be interfaced with wireless sensor networks?

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    What is a difference between wireless sensor node and the base station?

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Selmic, R.R., Phoha, V.V., Serwadda, A. (2016). Introduction. In: Wireless Sensor Networks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46769-6_1

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