Class Objectives

This is an advanced graduate course on the emerging topic of sensor networks. Students will acquire hands-on experience with wireless sensor networks and sensor platform technologies, and will learn how to develop sensor- and actuator-based end-to-end systems. The course will focus on sensor platforms, particularly on the ATLAS platform. The course will cover emerging Service-Oriented Device Architectures and novel concepts for pervasive system programmability and application development. Students will gain significant hands-on experience working with the ATLAS platform.

Special Emphasis:

This year, we will emphasize on sensor platforms. Paper presentations and term projects will be focused on this topic.

No textbook required. 

Tuesdays 10-E1 (5:10 to 8:10 PM) in CSE 221

Note that these are tentative schedules and are subject to change.

• 1/24: Welcome to the Sensor Networks class. A mailing list will be available shortly with directions on how to subscribe so please check this website frequently.
• 1/26: TA will be having temporary office hours on Monday 1/29, 3pm to 5pm.
• 1/26: The mailing list is now available. In order to subscribe, please send an email to majordomo@cise.ufl.edu with a body: subscribe cis6930sp07sn. Once everyone is on the mailing list please feel free to use the mailing list for open discussions and also for asking questions. This way everyone can benefit and learn more.
• 1/30: TA will be having temporary office hours this Friday 2/2, 11am to 12:30pm. If you can't make it to the office hour please email me and we'll figure out a time.  
• 2/5: Please go ahead and install the following software according to this document.
• 2/13: The document on term projects have been posted.
• 3/8: The initial version of the term paper is due on 3/20 5:10 pm. The final version is due on 4/17 and the slides for the paper presentations should be emailed to TA before class starts.
• 3/9: Please note that there will be NO CLASS on the 27th. The whole schedule for the class has been shifted so there is one more week of class in order to makeup for this week.

• 1/30: Assignment1 is due on the 6th of February before 5 pm. Please submit all your source code to me by that time, and don't forget to bring in your laptops since I will be grading your projects on each of your laptops. Here is a sample input.dat file you can use to test your code.

• View the Term Paper Outlines (Word DOC).
• For those of you who can't access the template, view the Term Paper Template (Word DOC).

• View the Term Project Outlines (Word DOC).

There will be two exams scheduled as indicated in the class schedule. There will be no final exam.

Students are required to have access to (and bring with them to class) a wireless laptop. The following specs are required:

• CPU: Pentium III (or equivalent) or higher.
• Memory: 256 MB or higher.
• Networking: Wireless LAN (built-in or PC card) must be compatible with 802.11b standard.
• OS: Any operating system that has an available Java Runtime Environment / JDK.