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<h1 style="vertical-align:middle"><img align="middle" valign="middle" style="vertical-align:middle" border="0" src="../images/MOB.jpg"> Mobile and Sensor Networks</h1>
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	<p>Recent years have witnessed the advent of wireless mobile and sensor technologies and the proliferation of application scenarios whereby large numbers of pervasive computing devices are connected to a wireless networking infrastructure in an ad hoc manner. This course will cover communication protocols for mobile ad hoc networks and will overview distributed data management techniques for resource-constrained sensor networks.</p>
<h4>Course dates</h4>
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<h4>Objectives</h4>
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<li> To identify applications and challenges of emerging networked environments (mobile and sensor networks) </li>
<li> To become familiar with communication protocols for wireless mobile ad hoc networks</li>
<li> To explore data management techniques for resource-constrained sensor networks</li>
<li> To learn how to simulate communication protocols for mobile / sensor networks and evaluate their performance</li>
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<h4>Contents</h4>
<p><dl> <dt><span>Introduction to MANETs (Mobile Ad hoc NETworks)</span>:</dt> <dd>origins, application scenarios, model and challenges of wireless ad hoc communication</dd> <dt><span>Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols</span>:</dt> <dd>interference and hidden/exposed terminal problems; contention-based vs. contention free protocols</dd> <dt><span>Routing protocols</span>:</dt> <dd>proactive/reactive distance-vector routing; geographic routing; attribute-based routing</dd> <dt><span>Delay tolerant networks (DTNs)</span>:</dt> <dd>application scenarios; epidemic and gossip-based protocols</dd> <dt><span>Sensor networks</span>:</dt> <dd>limited resource constraints; in-network query processing; in-network storage management </dd> <dt><span>Network simulation</span>:</dt> <dd>implementation and testing of communication protocols for wireless ad hoc networks; evaluation of their performance</dd><dt><span>OPNET Software</span>:</dt><dd><a href="https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/hongkai.wen/opnet/opnet.html">OPNET software</a> will be used in teaching.<br /></dd> </dl></p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>Fluency in an object-oriented language, like C++ or Java, is required.</p>

	
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