This course is a project-oriented graduate-level class. The course will start
with background information on sensor networks applications to introduce
students to the technical and social challenges. Students will select projects
to work on for the rest of the semester. We plan on using 2/3 of the course time
to teach technical topics and 1/3 to cover privacy and policy issues. The
technical issues covered will include a broad range of topics and will include
coverage of networking, operating systems,
distributed systems, databases, sensor data processing (e.g. image processing),
and sensor hardware.
Groups of students will be required to propose and implement a novel
sensor-based application. In addition to the technical challenges of building
this service, students will be forced to deal with the real world issues of
privacy and policy. Each project group will be required to implement mechanisms
to handle the privacy issues of their application.
Adrian Perrig <perrig@cmu.edu>, Hamerschlag Hall B204
Phillip Gibbons <phillip.b.gibbons@intel.com>, 417 S. Craig St., 3rd Floor
Brad Karp <bkarp@cs.cmu.edu>, 417 S. Craig St., 3rd Floor
David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights for the individual assignments: