EC2051 – WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS – QUESTION BANK

PART –A

UNIT – I
1. List any four applications of WSN.
2. State the important characteristics of WSN.
3. State the deployment options for WSNs.
4. What is Data-Centric Network?
5. List out the different types of interaction pattern between sources and sinks in
WSN.
6. What is meant by energy scavenging?
7. State about the Event Detection application.
8. Why is multihop wireless communication required for WSN?

UNIT – II
1. Draw the architecture of a sensor node.
2. List various modes of a sensor node.
3. Differentiate between active and passive sensors.
4. Define Figure of Merits.
5. Give any four commercially available Radio Transceivers used in sensor nodes.
6. State the mathematical model of energy consumption during transmission & reception of a
transceiver.
7. Mention the most relevant kinds of memory for sensor nodes from energy perspective.
8. What is Receiver Sensitivity?
9. Define Blocking Performance.
10. Define Dynamic Voltage Scaling.
11. State some examples of sensor nodes.
12. Can ASIC be used in a Wireless Sensor Network?
13. What is a gateway?

UNIT – III
1. Mention various performance metrics of WSN.
2. List the factors that are essential for PHY design in WSNs.
3. Define Dynamic Modulation Scaling
4. Differentiate between contention based protocols and schedule based protocols.
5. What is geographic addressing?
6. What are Nested Queries?
 7. Briefly specify IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol.
8. Can the MAC protocols of 802.11 & Bluetooth be used for WSN? Justify.

9. State the fundamental tasks of Address Management in WSN.

10. Give the significance of uniqueness of addresses w.r.t WSN.
11. Differentiate WSN routing with Adhoc routing.
12. Highlight the salient feature in location based routing.
13. Consider the third iteration of leach protocol. If the desired number of nodes per cluster is 10,
what is the threshold calculated for a node during its random number generation.
14. List out the key ingredients of ARQ protocols

UNIT – IV

1. What is localization and what is the advantage of localization?

2. Discuss on the parameters defined by the homogenous topology control
3. Explain how clustering solves the issue of scalability on WSN
4. List various services offered by localization
5. Why is topology control necessary for WSN?
6. What are the advantages of clustering?

UNIT – V

1. List the major concern sensor node hardware.

2. What is TinyOS? Where is it used?
3. Highlight the salient feature of component-based operating system
4. Classify sensor node hardware
5. What are the challenges in selecting a programming tool?
6. What do you mean by node level simulation?
7. Define Berkely motes

PART-B
UNIT – I

1. Discuss the characteristic requirements of WSN. (8)

 2. Explain the innovative mechanisms to realize the characteristic requirements of
WSN. (8)
3. Discuss the potential applications of WSN. (16)
4. Compare MANET and WSN. (8)
5. Discuss about the enabling technologies to build up WSN. (8)

UNIT – II

1. Discuss in detail the Transceiver characteristics and structure. (16)

2. Define the types of Sensors and give examples. (6)
3. Elaborate on the energy scavenging techniques for sensor nodes. (6)
4. Write about the operational states of a sensor node. (4)
5. Discuss about the energy consumption of the different components of a sensor
node. (16)
6. Write notes on
(i). Dynamic Energy and power management (6)
(ii). TinyOS and nesC (4)
(iii). Programming Models of WSN
iv). structure of operating system and protocol stack (8)
7. Discuss in detail the design principles for WSN. (16)
8. Explain about energy consumption of sensor nodes in detail. (16)

9. Write in detail about the communication device in a WSN. (16)

10. What are the different programming models and indicate which model is best
suited for WSN?
11. Write about the structure of OS and protocol stack in a WSN. (8+8)

12. Describe about optimization goals of a WSN and figures of merit in detail. (16)
13. What is WSN tunneling? (6)
14. Explain the concept of Gateway with different scenarios in WSN. (8)
 UNIT – III

1. Explain the concepts of Mediation Device protocol. (8)

2. Elaborate on the requirements of MAC protocols for WSNs. (8)
3. Discuss the PAMAS protocol in detail. (8)
4. Explain the design approaches and performance of S-MAC protocol. (16)
5. Describe the Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy.
6. Explain the important classes of MAC protocols. (8+8)
7. Explain the concept of TRAMA protocol. (8)
8. Discuss the distributed assignment of network wide and locally unique MAC
address for WSN (8)
9. Elaborate on the concepts of Energy Efficient Unicast Routing Protocol. (8)
10. Discuss the basics of Position Based Routing Protocol for WSN. (8)
11. Discuss about content-based addressing in detail. (8)
12. Explain briefly the address assignment algorithm. (8+8)
13. Describe in detail about SMACS. (16)
14. Explain efficiency by in-network processing (Dec’2012) (8)
15. Explain geographical forwarding (Dec’2012) (8)
16. Explain data centric routing protocols (May’ 2012) (16)

UNIT – IV
1. Discuss in details any two localization and positioning algorithms (April 2014)
2. Explain in details sensor tasking and control mechanism (April 2014)
3. Explain any two time synchronization algorithms of WSN (May 2013) (8)
4. Discuss on Angle of Arrival (AOA) and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA)
based tracking mechanisms (May’2012) (16)
5. Discuss about importance of time synchronization in WSN . Explain the different
latency in the channel. Also estimate the clock phase difference using three
message exchange (May’2012) (16)
6. Explain the concept of localization and positioning in detail (Dec’2014) (10)
7. Write a brief note on sensor tasking and control (Dec’2014) (6)
8. What are task-driven in sensor nodes and explain
9. What is the information based tasking and explain utility measures

UNIT – V

1. Explain in detail the programming challenges and state-centric programming in

sensor networks (April 2014)
2. Write detailed notes on any one node-level software platforms (May’2012) (16)
3. Briefly explain node-level software platforms and node-level simulators (April
2014)
4. Explain clearly about Berkely Motes. Mention the advantages and disadvantages
of it (Dec’2014) (16)
5. What are the different types of platforms available for sensor networks and
explain any one in details (Dec’2014) (16)
6. Explain the challenges for sensor network platforms (16)
7. Explain about TINYGALS (8)
8. Explain about PIECES