Development of emulation-based projects for teaching wireless sensor networks

Authors:
T. Andrew Yang;Deepesh Jain;Bo Sun
Affiliations:
University of Houston -- Clear Lake, Houston, Texas;University of Houston -- Clear Lake, Houston, Texas;Lamar University, Beaumont, TX
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Wireless technologies have achieved dramatic growth in recent years. Wireless sensor networks (WSN), in particular, have captured the interest of various sectors. The increasing popularity of WSN has motivated universities to include the subject in their curricula. Effective learning and teaching of WSN, however, require the students to gain hands-on experiences in developing WSN projects, which help the students to understand the strength and limitations of this new technology. In this paper we report our experience of teaching WSN by requiring students to develop emulation-based labs following pre-designed template projects. The projects make it easier for the instructor adopt WSN labs in the teaching, and help to smooth the student's learning curve.