Reading List

Introduction

• [I1] D. Culler, D. Estrin, M. Srivastava. Overview of Sensor Networks, IEEE Computer Magazine, August 2004.
• [I2] Alan Mainwaring, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, David Culler, and John Anderson, Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring, WSNA'02.
• [I3] J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. S. J. Pister, Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks, In International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCom), 1999.

Operating Systems and Programming

• [O1] System architecture directions for networked sensors, Jason Hill, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo, Seth Hollar, David Culler, and Kristofer Pister, ASPLOS'00.
• [O2] D. Gay, P. Levis, R. von Behren, M. Welsh, E. Brewer, and D. Culler, The nesC Language: A Holistic Approach to Networked Embedded Systems, ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2003.
• [O3] Lin Gu, John A. Stankovic, "t-kernel: providing reliable OS support to wireless sensor networks", ACM SENSYS 2006.
• [O4] N. Ramanathan, K. Chang, R. Kapur, L. Girod, E. Kohler, D. Estrin, Sympathy for the Sensor Network Debugger, in Proc. of Sensys, 2005.

Sensor Network Simulation

TOSSIM

• P. Levis, N. Lee, M. Welsh, and D. Culler, TOSSIM: Accurate and Scalable Simulation of Entire TinyOS Applications, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2003.
• L. Girod, T. Stathopoulos, N. Ramanathan, J. Elson, D. Estrin, E. Osterweil, and T. Schoellhammer, A System for Simulation, Emulation, and Deployment of Heterogeneous Sensor Networks, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2004.

ns-2
• The Network Simulator - ns-2 (Official Site).
  
• ns-2 tutorial slides by Ke Liu (You can find more ns-2 information and code at his homepage, if you are interested in ns-2.)
• Good tutorial
• Another toturial

Radio Communication Properties

• [P1] J. Zhao and R. Govindan, Understanding Packet Delivery Performance In Dense Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'03), November 2003.
• [P2] A. Cerpa, J.L. Wong, M. Potkonjak, and D. Estrin, Temporal Properties of Low Power Wireless Links: Modeling and Implications on Multi-hop Routing, ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc'05), May 2005.

Medium Access Control

• [M1] S. Kumar, V. S. Raghavan, J. Deng, Medium Access Control protocols for ad hoc wireless networks: A survey, Ad Hoc Networks 4 (2006) 326 - 358.
• [M2] W. Ye, J. Heidemann, D. Estrin, An Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, INFOCOM 2002.
• [M3] J. Polastre, J. Hill, and D. Culler, Versatile Low Power Media Access for Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, November 2004. [slides]
• [M4] Injong Rhee, Ajit Warrier, Mahesh Aia, and Jeongki Min, Z-MAC: a Hybrid MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Sensys 2005.

Routing

I. Routing Surveys
• [RS1] Kemal Akkaya, Mohamed Younis, "A survey on routing protocols for wireless sensor networks", Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 3, Issue 3 , May 2005, Pages 325-349.
• [RS2] J. N. Al-Karaki, A. E. Kamal, "Routing techniques in wireless sensor networks: a survey", IEEE Wireless Communications, Volume: 11, Issue: 6 pp. 6- 28, Dec. 2004.
• Reddy, T.B.; Karthigeyan, I.; Manoj, B.S.; Murthy, C.S.R. "Quality of service provisioning in ad hoc wireless networks: a survey of issues and solutions", Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 4, Issue 1, 1 January 2006, Pages 83-124.
• [RS4] D. Chen and P. K. Varshney, "QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey," Proc. of the 2004 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN 2004), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 21-24, 2004.
• [RS5] Matthias Hollick, Ivan Martinovic, Tronje Krop, Ivica Rimac, "A Survey on Dependable Routing in Sensor Networks, Ad hoc Networks, and Cellular Networks", 30th EUROMICRO Conference (EUROMICRO'04), pp. 495-502.
II. Routing in WSNs
• [R1] C. Intanagonwiwat, R. Govindan, and D. Estrin, Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCOM 2000), Boston, Massachusetts, August 2000. [slides]
• [R2] B. Karp and H. T. Kung, GPSR: Greedy perimeter stateless routing for wireless networks, Mobicom 2000. [slides]
• [R3] Young-Jin Kim, Ramesh Govindan, Brad Karp and Scott Shenker, Geographic Routing Made Practical, NSDI 2005.
• [R4] Alec Woo, Terence Tong, and David Culler, Taming the Underlying Challenges of Reliable Multihop Routing in Sensor Networks, Sensys 2005. [slides]
• [R5] R. Fonseca, S. Ratnasamy, J. Zhao, C. Tien Ee and D. Culler, S. Shenker, I. Stoica, Beacon Vector Routing: Scalable Point-to-Point Routing in Wireless Sensornets, NSDI 2005. [slides]
• [R6] Eylem Ekici, Yaoyao Gu, and Doruk Bozdag, Mobility-Based Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 56-62, July 2006.

Real-Time Communication and QoS Support

• [Q1] C. Lu, B.M. Blum, T.F. Abdelzaher, J.A. Stankovic, and T. He, RAP: A Real-Time Communication Architecture for Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Sept. 2002. [slides]
• [Q2] T. He, J.A. Stankovic, C. Lu, T. Abdelzaher, SPEED: A Stateless Protocol for Real-Time Communication in Sensor Networks, 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'03), Providence, Rhode Island, USA. May 19-22, 2003. [slides]
• [Q3] K. Liu, N. Abu-Ghazaleh, K. D. Kang, JiTS: Just-in-Time Scheduling for Real-Time Sensor Data Dissemination, 4th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2006), Pisa, Italy, Mar. 13-17, 2006.
• [Q4] O. Chipara, Z. He, G. Xing, Q. Chen, X. Wang, C. Lu, J.A. Stankovic and T.F. Abdelzaher, Real-Time Power-Aware Routing in Sensor Networks, IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), June 2006.

Localization

• [L1] D. Niculescu, Positioning in ad hoc sensor networks, IEEE Networks, 18(4), Jul/Aug 2004.
• [L2] R.Stoleru, T. He and J. A. Stankovic, Range-Free Localization, Sensor Network Handbook Chapter, Springer, 2006.

Time Synchronization

• [T1] Bharath Sundararaman, Ugo Buy, Ajay D. Kshemkalyani, "Clock synchronization for wireless sensor networks: a survey", Ad Hoc Networks Volume 3, Issue 3 , May 2005, Pages 281-323.
• [T2] Miklos Maroti, Branislav Kusy, Gyula Simon, Akos Ledeczi, The Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol, Sensys 2004.
• [T3] S. Ganeriwal, R. Kumar, and M.B. Srivastava, Timing-Sync Protocol for Sensor Networks, SenSys'03, Los Angeles, California, USA. November 5-7, 2003.

Security

• [S1] A. Perrig, J. Stankovic, and D. Wagner, Security in Wireless Sensor Networks, CACM, Vol. 47, No. 6, June 2004. [slides]
• [S2] Anthony Wood, John A. Stankovic, "Denial of Service in Sensor Networks," IEEE Computer, 35(10):54-62, October 2002. [slides]
• [S3] C. Karlof and D. Wagner, Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures, Sensor Network Protocols and Applications, 2003. [slides]
• [S4] SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks, A. Perrig, R. Szewczyk, V. Wen, D. Culler, and J.D. Tygar, Mobile Computing and Networking, Rome, Italy, 2001. [slides]
• [S5] Chris Karlof, Naveen Sastry, David Wagner, TinySec: A Link Layer Security Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks, SenSys'04.
• [S6] J. Misic, V. B. Misic, "Implementation of security policy for clinical information systems over wireless sensor networks", Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 134-144.

Data Management

• [D1] S. R. Madden, M.J. Franklin, J.M. Hellerstein, W. Hong, TinyDB: An Acquisitional Query Processing System for Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, vol.30, no.1, March 2005.
• [D2] Nisheeth Shrivastava, Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Subhash Suri, Divyakant Agrawal, Medians and Beyond: New Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Networks, ACM Sensys, November 2004. [slides]
• [D3] O. Chipara, C. Lu and J.A. Stankovic, Dynamic Conflict-free Query Scheduling for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'06), November 2006.

Storage

• [ST1] P. Desnoyers, D. Ganesan and P. Shenoy, TSAR: A Two Tier Storage Architecture Using Interval Skip Graphs, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2005.
• [ST2] S. Krishnamurthy, T. He, G. Zhou, J. Stankovic, and S. H. Son, RESTORE: A Real-Time Event Correlation and Storage Service for Sensor Networks, International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS'06), Chicago, June 2006.