CS6003-AD HOC AND SENSOR NETWORKS

UNIT-I
1.Define computer network and give its two components
A computer network is an interconnected collection of independent computers which consists of two
components
 Distributed applications
 Networking infrastructure
2.Give some example of distributed applications.
 Internet
 E-mail
 Banking applications
 Reservation system
3.List the high and low frequency bands in the electromagnetic spectrum.
 High frequency bands X-rays and Gamma rays
 Low frequency bands-radio, Microwave, infrared and visible waves.
4.What are the method of spectrum allocation
 Comparative bidding
 Lottery system
 Auctioning method
5. What is multipath propagation? How it affect the signal quality?
Multi path is the propagation phenomenon that results in radio signals reaching the receiving antenna by
two or more paths. The effects of multipath include constructive and destructive interference, and phase shifting
of the signal. Multi path propagation of signals causes fading of the transmitted signal.
6. What is inter symbol interference?
Give a mechanism that is used for overcoming problems arising due to inter symbol interference. Inter
symbol interference is a type of interference, where distortion in the received signal is caused by the temporal
spreading and the consequently overlapping of individual pulses in the signal. It can be avoided by introducing
guard bands.
7.List the characteristics of the wireless Channel.
 1.Path loss
 2.Fading
 3.Interference
 4.Doppler shift
 5.Transmission rate constraints.
8.Define fading
Fading is fluctuations in signal strength when received at the receiver.It has two types,
 Fast fading or small scale fading
 slow fading or large scale fading.
9. Explain the Doppler shift.
It is defined as change in the frequency of the received signal when the transmitter and receiver move
with respect to each other. The Doppler shift is given by fd=v/λ

10. State Shannon theorem.

The upper bound on the information rate of data which is sent with a given average signal power S
through an analog communication channel subject to additive white Gaussian noise of power N,is given as,
C=Blog2(1+(S/N))
11. Compare cellular and ad hoc wireless network
Cellular networks Ad hoc networks

Fixed infrastructure- based Infrastructure less

Reuse of frequency spectrum through Dynamic frequency reuse based on carrier
geographical channel reuse sense mechanism
High cost &time of deployment Quick and cost effective deployment

Easier to employ bandwidth reservation Bandwidth reservation requires complex

medium access control protocols

12.List some of the applications of ad hoc wireless networks.

 Military application
 Collaborative and distributed computing
 Emergency operation
 Wireless mesh networks
 Wireless sensor networks
13. What are the objectives of transport layer protocol? Which protocols are used?
 Setting up and maintaining end-to-end connections
 Reliable end-to end delivery of data packets
 Flow control
 Congestion control
14. What is wireless sensor network?
Wireless sensor network consists of individual sensor nodes that are able to interact with their
environment by sensing or controlling physical parameters, these nodes have to collaborate to fulfill their tasks
as usually, a single node is incapable of doing so and they use wireless communication to enable this
collaboration. In essence the nodes without such a network contain atleast some computation, Wireless
communication and sensing or control functionalities.
15.Define QoS
QoS is closely related to the type of network service is the quality of that service which is the amount
and quality of information that can be extracted at given sinks about the observed objects or area. Therefore
adapted quality concepts like reliable detection of events or the approximation quality.
16.What is fault tolerance?
Some sensor nodes may fail or be blocked due to lack of power or have physical damage or
environmental interference. The failure of sensor nodes should not affect the overall task of the sensor network.
This is the reliability or fault tolerance issue.
PART B
1. What are the characteristics and features of ad hoc networks?
2. Explain path loss and fading in detail.
3. Explain the two main forms of interference, Doppler shift and Nyquist theorem.
4. Explain the applications areas of ad hoc networks.
5. Explain the characteristics of wireless channels.
6. Explain the design issues in adhoc network?
7. Differentiate between cellular network and AdHoc Network.
 Unit-II
1. Describe the common method used in alleviating the hidden terminal problem at the MAC layer.
Hidden terminals are nodes that are hidden from the sender of a data transmission but are reachable to
the receiver of the session. In such cases, the hidden terminal can cause collision at the receiver node. The
presence of hidden problem can significantly reduce the throughput of a MAC protocol used in ad hoc wireless
networks. Hence the MAC protocol should be able to alleviate the effects of hidden terminals.
2. List the major issues in MAC protocol for ad hoc wireless networks
 Bandwidth efficiency
 QoS support
 Synchronization
 Hidden and exposed terminal problems
 Error prone shared broadcast channel
3. List the classification of MAC protocol?
 Contention based protocols
 Contention based protocol with reservation mechanisms
 Contention based protocols with scheduling mechanisms
4. What are the advantages of reservation based MAC protocols over contention based MAC protocols?
 MACA/PR is an efficient bandwidth reservation protocol that can support real time traffic
sessions
 MACA/PR is that it does not require global synchronization among nodes
 RTMAC is its bandwidth efficiency
 RTMAC is its asynchronous mode of operation where nodes do not require any global time
synchronization
5. What are the advantages of the BTMA protocol ?How are they overcome in the DBTMA protocol?
The probability of collision is very low in BTMA, the bandwidth utilization is very poor. DBTMA
exhibits better network utilization. This is because the other schemes block both the forward and reserve
transmission on data channel when they reserve the channel through their RTS and CTS packets
6. List out the five phase of the reservation protocol.
 Reservation request phase
 Collision report phase
 Reservation conformation phase
 Reservation acknowledgement phase
 Packing and eliminating
7. List the services provided by IEEE802.11
 Association
 Authentication
 De-Authentication
 Disassociation
 Integration
 Data delivery
 Privacy
 Reassociation
8. What are the pros and cons of using multichannel MAC protocol over a single channel protocol?
Although several single channel schemes came into design and tried to achieve a high quality of services
scheme, most of them were not successful due to hidden and exposed terminal problems and the fairness issue.
On the other hand, the multichannel schemes were almost successful in solving these problems and providing a
better and more reliable MAC protocol for the users.
9. How is synchronization between nodes achived in HRMA protocol?
HRMA uses a dedicated frequency channel for synchronization where nodes exchange synchronization
information .When a node wants to sent data it listens to the HOP reservation period. If there is a packet there, it
tries again after a random amount of time, otherwise it sends a RTS packet, and waits for the CTS
acknowledgement packet in the CTS period of the corresponding frequency channel.
10. Write the difference between HRMA and SRMA
HRMA uses a reservation and handshake mechanism to enable a pair of communicating nodes to reserve
a frequency hop which guarantees collision free data transmission even in the presence of hidden terminal
problem. Each time slot is assigned a separate frequency channel. SRMA uses collision avoidance handshake
mechanism and soft reservation mechanism in order to contend for and effect reservation of time slots. Nodes
are allocated different time slots so that the transmission are collision free.
11. Write short notes on D-PRMA
D-PRMA was developed to provide voice support in ad hoc wireless networks.it is more suited for voice
traffic than for data traffic applications. Nodes are prioritized to transmit voice traffic over normal data traffic.
12. Which protocol is more bandwidth efficient RTMAC or MACA/PR?
RTMAC uses bandwidth efficiently than MACA/PR. MACA/PR has the possibility of having
fragmented free slots not being used at all which reduces bandwidth efficiency whereas in RTMAC, the free
slots may occur in between the reservation slots.
13. Define preferable channel List(PCL)
PCL is a data structure maintained by each node in multichannel MAC protocol. It maintains the usage
of channel within the transmission range of the node. The nodes that hear ATIM-ACK and ATIM-RES packets
update their PCLs accordingly.
14. Narrate the role of channels in ICSMA
The total available bandwidth is split into two equal channels in ICSMA. If the source node transmits
the RTS packet on one channel and if the receiver node is ready to accept packets from the sender, it responds
by transmitting the CTS packet on another channel.
15. Define priority index.
Priority index of a packet is defined as the ratio between packet delivery ratio to the desire packet
delivery ratio for the flow multiplied by the uniform laxity budget of the packet. PI=(PDR/M) X ULB
16. What are the basic principles of CATA?
The receiver of a flow must inform the potential source nodes about the reserved slot on which it is
currently receiving packets. Usage of negative acknowledgement for reservation request and control packet
transmission at the beginning of each slot, for distributing slot reservation information to sender of broadcast
sessions.
17. Differentiate MACA-BI and MARCH
MACA-BI eliminates the need for RTS packet and data transmission occurs through a two way
handshake mechanism and it uses a traffic prediction mechanism. The hidden terminal problem is overcome in
MACA-BI and collision among data packets is less. In MARCH the RTS is used only for the first packet of the
stream. It does not require any traffic prediction mechanism and reduce the number of handshakes involved in
data transmission .The throughput and average end to end delay is very low in MARCH when compared to
MACA

PART B
1. Explain MACAW protocol in detail.
2. Explain the contention based protocols with scheduling and reservation in detail.
3. List and explain the issues in designing a MAC protocol for ad hoc wireless networks.
4. List the important goals of designing a MAC protocol for ad hoc wireless networks.
5. Illustrate various steps involved in five phase reservation protocol with its frame format.
6. How is scheduling mechanism achieved in distributed wireless ordering protocol? Explain in detail. How are
Information symmetry and perceived collisions handled?
7. What are the advantages of reservation based MAC protocol over contention based MAC Protocol?
 UNIT-III
1. Define Routing
Routing is the process of selecting best paths in a network. In the past, the term routing was also used to
mean forwarding network traffic among networks. Routing is performed for many kinds of networks, including
the telephone network , electronic data networks and transportation networks.
2. How is the loop free property ensured in on demand routing protocol?
It is a fundamental requirement of any routing protocol to avoid unnecessary wastage of network
bandwidth. In ad hoc wireless networks, due to the random movement of nodes, transient loops may form in the
route thus established. A routing protocol should detect such transient routing loops and take corrective actions.
3. What are the advantages of hierarchical routing protocol?
 Reduction in the size of routing tables
 Better scalability
 Substantially lesser calculation and updates of routing tables
4. List some example of table driven routing protocols
 Destination sequential distance-vector routing
 Wireless routing protocol
 Cluster head gateway switch routing protocol
 Source tree adaptive routing protocol
5. List the advantages of DSVL routing protocols
 The routers are readily available to all destination at all times, the delay is less in the route
setup process.
 With the help of mechanism like incremental updates, an existing wired network protocol can
be applied to ad hoc wireless networks
6. What is hybrid routing protocol?
Hybrid routing protocol combines the best feature of proactive and reactive routing protocols. Hybrid
routing protocol use distance vector for more accurate metrics to determine the best paths to designation
network and report routing information only when there is a change in the topology of the network.
7. How is the cluster head selected in the CGSR protocol?
CGSR organizes nodes into cluster with coordination among the members of each cluster assigned to a
unique node called cluster-head. The cluster head is selected dynamically by using a least cluster change
algorithm. In LCC algorithm, a node ceases to be a cluster head only if it comes under the range of another
cluster-head, where tie is broken either using the lowest ID or highest connectivity algorithm.
8. What are the major challenges in designing routing protocols?
 Mobility
 Bandwidth constraint
 Error prone shared broadcast radio channel
 Hidden and exposed terminal problems
9. List some of the characteristics of a routing protocol for ad hoc wireless networks.
 It must be fully distributed
 It must be localized and adaptive to frequent topology changes
 It must provide Quality of service
 It must use the resources efficiently
10. What is the approach used to find link stability in ABR?
A link is classified as stable or unstable based on its temporal stability. The temporal stability is determined by
counting the periodic beacons that a node receives from its neighbors. Each node maintains the count of its
neighbors beacons and classifies each link as stable or unstable based on the beacon count.
11. Classify the routing protocol for ad hoc wireless network
 Routing information update mechanism
 Use of temporal information for routing
 Topology information organization
  Utilization of specific resources
12. Based on routing information update mechanism how the routing protocols are classified?
 Proactive or table driven routing protocol
 Reactive or on demand routing protocol
 Hybrid routing protocol
13. Give the major objectives of the transport layer protocol.
 Setting up of an end-to-end connection
 End-to-end delivery of data packets
 Flow control
 Congestion control
14. Why does TCP not work well in Ad hoc network?
 Misinterpretation of packet loss
 Frequent path breaks
 Effect of path length
 Uni-directional path
 Multipath routing
 Network partitioning and remerging.
15. List the issues in designing a transport layer protocol for ad hoc wireless networks
 Induced traffic
 Induces throughput unfairness
 Separation of congestion control, reliability and flow control
 Power and bandwidth constraints
 Dynamic topology
16. Specify some of the goals to be achieved in transport layer protocol for ad hoc wireless networks.
 The throughput for each connection should be increased
 Throughput fairness must be provided across contending flows
 The connection setup and connection maintenance overhead should be minimal
 The protocol should have congestion control and flow control mechanism in the network.
 The protocol should be able to adjust to the dynamic topological changes in the network
17. What additional state information is to be maintained at the FP in TCP-F?
The state information that is maintained at the FP in TCP-F is Snooze state Connected state
18. What is the impact of the failure of proxy nodes in split –TCP?
The failure of proxy nodes in splits TCP leads to throughput degradation. During frequent path breaks or
during frequent node failure, the performance of split TCP may be affected.

PART B
1. With suitable trace, explain the route establishment in location aided routing.
2. Device a pseudo code that present various steps involved in neighbour Degree- Based preferred link
algorithm.
3. How is routing table constructed in fisheye state routing protocol? Explain in detail.
4. Discuss table driven protocols with examples.
5. Explain multicast routing algorithms in detail.
6. How routing table is constructed in fisheye state routing protocol? Explain in detail.
7. List the characteristics of ideal routing protocol for ad hoc wireless network.
8. Classify and explain adhoc wireless network based on routing topology.
9. Explain the types of ad hoc network routing protocols based on routing information update mechanism.
10. Explain on demand routing protocol in detail.
11. Explain the major challenges that a routing protocol designed for adhoc wireless networks face.
12. Describe how the packets are transmitted in multiple access collision avoidance protocol.
13. Explain the scheduling table update mechanism in distributed priority scheduling.
 UNIT-IV

1. What is WSN?
Wireless sensor networks are a network that consists of sensor which are distributed in an ad hoc
manner.
2. Compare wireless sensor network with ad hoc network
 Wireless sensor network mainly use broadcast communication while ad hoc networks use
point-to-point communication.
 Unlike ad hoc networks wireless sensor networks are limited by sensors limited power ,
energy and computational capability,
 Sensor nodes may not have global ID because of the large amount of overhead and large
number of sensors.
3. List the advantages of clustering
 Prevent interferences using CDMA
 Flexible and adaptive
 Efficient transmission using TDMA
4. List the disadvantages of clustering
 Cluster head formation more overhead
 Long distance for CH to travel
 Possibility of CH dead
5. What are the disadvantages of flooding?
 Implosion
 Overlap
 Resource blindness
6. What is sequential assignment routing?
The sequential assignment routing algorithm creates multiple trees, where the root of each tree is a one
hop neighbor of the sink.
7. What is data aggregation?
Data aggregation is the process of collecting and aggregating the useful data. It is considered as one of
the fundamental processing procedures for saving the energy.
8. What are the challenges caused by sensor network MAC protocol?
 No single controlling authority, so global synchronization is difficult
 Power efficiency issue
 Frequent changes in topology due to node mobility and failure.
9. What are three kinds of MAC protocols used in sensor network?
 fixed -allocation
 demand- based
 contention –based
10. List the IEEE 802.15.4 features
 Data rates of 250kbps, 40kbps and 20kbps
 Two addressing modes; 16 bit short and 64 bit IEEE addressing
 CSMA-CA channel access
 Automatic network establishment by the coordinator.
11. How an implosion is caused?
When duplicate messages are send to the same node it occurs, when a node receives copies of the same
messages from many of its neighbors.
12. When an overlap will occur?
The same event may be sensed by more than one node due to overlapping regions of coverage. This
results in their neighbor receiving duplicate reports of the same event.
 PART-B
1. Explain about the hardware components of sensor nodes
2. Explain about the software components of sensor nodes
3. With a neat diagram, Explain the sensor network architecture
4. Write notes on Dynamic Energy and power management
5. Explain in detail about aggregation as an optimization problem.
6. Explain about the MAC protocol in WSN.
7. Write in detail about the IEEE 802.15.4
 UNIT-V
1. What are ways of deployment?
The deployment can be either
 Deterministic
 Randomized
2. Compare deterministic and random deployment
 In deterministic deployment, the sensors are manually placed and data is routed through pre-
determined paths.
 In random node deployment, the sensor nodes ar4e scattered randomly creating an
infrastructure in an ad hoc manner
3. What are the categories of power saving techniques?
 Schedule the wireless nodes to alternates between active and sleep mode
 Power control by adjusting the transmission range of wireless nodes
 Energy efficient routing, data gathering
 Reduce the amount of data transmitted and avoid useless activity.
4. Define OLSR
OLSR is optimized link state routing protocol which is a proactive protocol that employs an efficient
link state packet forwarding mechanism called multipoint relaying.
5. List the advantages of OLSR
 Reduced control overhead.
 Low connection setup
6. Define localization
Localization is the task of determine the position of a sensor or the spatial relationship among objects.
7. Why GPS is not feasible in localization?
 Not available indoor
 Constraints on the cost of sensor
 Constraints on the size of sensor
 Constraints on the energy consumption
8. What are the two mechanism for location discovery?
 Indoor localization
 Sensor localization
9. What is the purpose of RSSI?
`Receiver signal strength indicator was used to determine correlation to distance.
10. What is ML technique? classify it.
Multi-lateration technique is the technique of location estimation depending on the beacons nodes
locations. They are,
 Atomic ML
 Iterative ML
 Collaborative ML
11. Define relative localization.
The aim of relative localization was to obtain the relationship of distance or angle between nodes. Its
distance is relative not absolute and the same angle.
12. What is coverage?
Coverage is a measure of how well the network can observe or cover an event. Coverage depends up on:
 Range and sensitivity of sensing nodes
 Location and density of sensing nodes in given region
13. Define breach path
Breach path shows the region of maximum vulnerability in a sensor network where the coverage
provided by the sensors is the weakest.
14. What is the use of voronoi diagram?
Voronoi diagram is used to solve the problem of coverage by partitioning the plane into a set of convex
polygon such that all points inside a polygon are closest to the sensor enclosed by the polygon
15. How voronoi diagram is drawn?
It is drawn by perpendicular bisector of every line segment joining two sites and using their points of
intersection as the vertices of the convex polygons.
16. What is delaunary triangulation?
Delaunary triangulation is a mathematical technique to solve this which is obtained from voronoi
diagram by connecting the sites whose polygons share a common edge.
17. What are the three function of PSFQ?
 Message relaying
 Error recovery
 Selective status reporting
18. Define AOA?
The angle between the propagation direction of an incident wave and some reference direction
PART-B
1. Briefly explain the issues in WSN routing
2. What is meant by OLSR and explain about OLSR routing protocol-
3. Explain about the absolute and relative localization
4. Write notes on triangulation
5. Explain about the QOS in WSN
6. Explain about the Synchronization in WSN www.AUNewsBlog.net

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