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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
1>MEMS stands for__________
2>A sensor network is subject to a unique set of resource constraints such as
a: finite on-board battery power
b: limited network communication bandwidth
Ans: ________ (a/b/both)
3>In a typical sensor network, each sensor node operates unethered and has a microprocessor and
a small amount of memory for signal processing and task scheduling (true/false)__________
4>Each node is equipped with one or more sensing devices such as acoustic microphone arrays,
video or still cameras, infrared, seismic or magnetic sensors (true/false)__________
5>Information collected by and transmitted on a sensor network describes conditions of physical
environments and requires advanced query interfaces and search engines to effectively support
user-level functions (true/false)__________
6>___________routes user queries or commands to appropriate nodes in a sensor network
(bridge/gateway)
7>Communicating 1 bit over the wireless medium at short ranges consumes ___________energy
than processing that bit (less/more)
8>For the Sensoria sensors and Berkeley motes, the ratio of energy consumption for communication
and computation is in the range of _____to______ (100/1000/10000)
9>A sensor network is designed to collect information from a___________ environment
(logical/physical)
10>Table1.1___________
11>It is more appropriate to address nodes in a sensor network by_____ than by______ (IP
address/physical properties)
12>Mobility and instability in wireless links prevent the use of many existing edge network gateway
protocols for internetworking IP and sensor networks (true/false)__________
13>The challenges we face in designing sensor network systems and applications include
a: limited hardware
b: limited support for networking
c: limited support for software development
Ans: ___________ (a/b/c/all)
14>Match the following
Limited hardware:
the tasks are typically real-time and massively distributed,
involve dynamic collaboration among nodes, and must handle
multiple competing events
Limited support for each node has limited processing, storage and communication
networking:
capabilities, and limited energy supply and bandwidth
Limited support for the network is peer-to-peer , with a mesh topology and
software
dynamic, mobile and unreliable connectivity
development:
15>Following are advantages of sensor network
a: energy advantage
b: detection advantage
Ans: ___________ (a/b/both)
16>Dense networks of distributed communicating sensors can improve SNR by reducing average
distances from sensor to source of signal or target (true/false)__________
17>The
greatest
advantage
of
networked
sensing
are
in
improved___________
(robustness/scalability/both)
18>A___________ sensing system is inherently more robust against individual sensor node or link
failures, because of redundancy in the network (centralized/decentralized)
19>Because of the unique attenuation characteristics of RF signals, _____network provides a
significant energy saving over ______network for the same distance (single hop/multi hop)
State:
Uncertainty:
Task:
System
performance
goal:
Evaluation
metric:
sensor information
applications
is
stored,
indexed
and
accessed
by
ANSWERS
1>Micro Electro Mechanical System
2>both
3>T
4>T
5>T
6>gateway
7>more
8>1000 to 100000
9>physical
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11>physical properties, IP address
12>T
13>all
14>1-b 2-c 3-a
15>both.
16>T
17>Both
18>decentralised
19>multihop, single hop
20>a
21>2-5
22>a
23>larger
24>both
25>noise
26>T
27>decreases
28>b
29>b
30>b
31>10logk
32>all
33>all
34>1-d 2-e 3-c 4-b 5-a
35>1/sqrt(N)
36>increases
37>Collaborative Signal & Information Processing
38>CSIP
39>sensor networks
40>1-d 2-e 3-f 4-b 5-a 6-c
41>1-f 2-e 3-d 4-c 5-b 6-a
42>1-f 2-d 3-e 4-a 5-c 6-b
43>1-c 2-d 3-a 4-b
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