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CS 724: Sensing, Communications & Networking for Smart Wireless Devices

Course Description

The course will cover different types of sensing, communication and networking techniques for current/future smart devices. The focus of this course is to build the foundations for building real-world technologies and solutions. The course will start with some mathematical concepts and then how to apply them in solving real-life problems. Key topics of this course include GPS, indoor localization techniques, motion tracking, applications of different sensing modalities, low power wireless protocols etc.

 

Tentative Topics

Introduction: Technology, scope, applications of wireless sensing and sensor networks

Localization: GPS localization, indoor localization challenges, RSSI based localization, fingerprinting based approaches, Time-of-flight (ToF), Time difference of arrival (TDoA), Clock synchronization

Signal Processing and applications: Time domain to frequency domain conversion, DFT basics, Beamforming basics and applications, Angle-of-arrival (AoA) based localization

IMU sensor and motion sensing: Understanding inertial measurement unit (accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer), sensor fusion, applications of IMUs for motion tracking, gesture detection, activity tracking etc.

MAC in sensor networks: Requirements, synchronous vs asynchronous MAC, low-power MAC, specific examples including IEEE 802.15.4

Routing in sensor networks: Energy aware routing, geographic routing, attribute based routing etc.

Device-free sensing: Wireless signals and communication channels for sensing, applications like human presence detection, digital agriculture etc.

Dynamic time warping and applications: Basics of pattern matching, dynamic time warping, applications like posture detection, hand movement tracking etc.

 

References

There will not be any dedicated textbook for this course. Students are expected to read research papers and online materials/tutorials, which will be provided with the corresponding lectures.