CS344E: Sensor Network Systems

The purpose of the work in CS 344E is to introduce the fundamental research in wireless sensor networks in order to enable you to work on a research project of publishable quality. To provide depth, the focus topic of the course is routing. This requires reading deeply on a wide range of topics. Each student is therefore responsible for writing a short summary of each paper, which must be sent to the instructor and TA before the beginning of the class in which the paper is discussed. The summary should answer these three questions:

1. Based on the assumptions the paper makes, when is the technical approach advocated suitable and when is it not? Do the author's claims match? Are there unstated assumptions in the paper?
2. What further evaluation would best support the conclusions of the paper (assuming it agreed)? If you have doubts about the claims in the paper, what experiment would you perform to test them?
3. Give a specific example of how you might apply these results to a similar but different problem.

For some papers, one or more of the questions might not be directly applicable. Use your own judgement. Each student can miss one writeup; when you do this, still send email, but say that you're taking your freebie.