The course aims at providing knowledge on mobile ad hoc, mesh, and sensor networks, by describing their organizations models and architectures, and by presenting the main design and implementation issues.
The course presents the main issues at the MAC, network, transport, and application layers. In particular it gives emphasis to the issues in routing, energy management, topology control, and data management. It also presents some specific applications for wireless sensor networks, such as localization and tracking, and the problem of integration of wireless sensor networks in context aware systems or in other networks.
Finally the course presents some standards, such as 802.11X, 802.15.x, Bluetooth and Zigbee, and gives some examples of commercial platforms for wireless sensor networks.