Class News

• Welcome to CS580S!!! Please check this news section regularly.

Instructor

• KD Kang
• Email: kang@cs.binghamton.edu
• Office Hours: MW 2:40pm - 3:40pm in EB T16

Teaching Assistant

• Ke Liu
• Email: kliu@cs.binghamton.edu
• Office Hours: TBD in Watson Commons

Course Objective

Wireless sensor networks are great interest to both academia and industry. They open the door to a large number of industrial, scientific, commercial, and defense applications such as habitat monitoring, fire detection, rescue operations, structural monitoring, smart buildings, and elderly care. They allow cost-effective sensing especially in applications where human observation or traditional sensors would be undesirable, inefficient, expensive, or even dangerous. Sensors are typically embedded nodes that are resource poor and energy constrained. Further, the nature of the operation is application/data driven requiring protocols and algorithms that are fundamentally different from those in traditional networks. This course provides an introduction to this emerging field to help students to understand the current-state-of-art and possibly identify open research problems and challenges. The topics to be covered includes (but are not limited to): (1) operating systems, (2) medium access control, (3) routing, (4) real-time communication and QoS support, (5) query processing and data aggregation, (6) localization, (7) time synchronization, and (8) security.

Reading List and Course Schedule

No textbook but a set of papers will be used in this course. For more information, please refer to the Reading List and Course Schedule

Grading

• Paper Critique: 10%
  • You have to turn in one page paper critique for a required paper at the beginning of each class.
  • Critique Guideline
• Paper Presentation: 20%
  
  • Each student is required to present a paper.
  • Presentation Guideline
• Project: 60%
  
  • One Page Project Proposal: 10%
    
  • Proposal Presentation: 10%
    
  • Final Project Presentation: 10%
    
  • Final Report: 30% (Example of a Good Final Report, Another Example)
• Class Participation: 10%
  • All students are highly encouraged to get involved in active discussions.

Course Policies

• Binghamton University Student Academic Honesty Code is strictly enforced in this course.
• Attendance is mandatory.
• No cell phone or laptop usage is allowed in the classroom.
• The instructor will not aid students in coding, compiling, or debugging.

Resources

Related Conferences
• SenSys
• IPSN
• MobiSys
• MobiHoc
• MobiCom
• INFOCOM
• RTAS
• RTSS
Other
• USC sensor network reading list.

Research Tips

• "Efficient Reading of Papers in Science and Technology," A brochure by Michael J. Hanson updated and re-typeset by Dylan McNamee.
  
• "How to write a good research paper", Simon Peyton Jones.
  
• "How to give a good research talk," Simon Peyton Jones, John Launchbury, John Hughes, SIGPLAN Notices 28(11), Nov 1993.
  
• "An Evaluation of the Ninth SOSP Submissions," Roy Levin and David D. Redell, Operating Systems Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, July 1983, pp. 35-40. (Optional)