IoT Communications and Networks

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IoT Communications and Networks

Instructors: Georgios Papadopoulos

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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2 weeks to complete

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Intermediate level

Recommended experience

2 weeks to complete

at 10 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

How to schedule a collision free communication between two devices (with TSCH protocol, MSF)
How to compress, fragment and reassemble IPv6 data packets adapted to IoT constraints (with 6Lowpan, 6LFF)
How make connected devices learn their best path toward a given destination (with RPL protocol)

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There are 6 modules in this course

By presenting the building blocks of the IoT network architecture, this MOOC will help learners adapt to the fast changing communications and networking environment of IoT.

The IoT world represents billions of sophisticated objects, such as sensors, actuators and meters, that are deployed nearly everywhere, in homes, hospitals, factories, cities, and are connected to the Internet. However, they come with limited capacity in terms of memory storage, computational power and energy; how can these objects then ensure network reliability and timely transmission? That is what you will learn in this course: how we can set up wireless communications and networking in the IoT to achieve these goals. This course has received financial support from the Patrick & Lina Drahi Foundation.

What's included

2 videos15 readings

2 videos Total 12 minutes

Welcome to the IoT Communications and Networks MOOC 6 minutes
Topologies in IoT Networking 5 minutes

15 readings Total 89 minutes

Navigating Coursera 2 minutes
Getting help 1 minute
Navigating the Forum 10 minutes
Post a new publication 10 minutes
Forum moderation 10 minutes
Meet the Instructors 10 minutes
Introduce yourself 5 minutes
A short story about this MOOC 5 minutes
Course Organisation 10 minutes
For audit learners only 1 minute
Course Grading Policy 5 minutes
Get a verified certificate of achievement 5 minutes
Low-power Wireless Mesh Networks 5 minutes
The Potential Topologies 5 minutes
The Protocol Stack Overview 5 minutes

What's included

5 videos7 readings3 assignments

5 videos Total 25 minutes

Welcome to Week 1: MAC Methods for IoT 3 minutes
Introduction to Week 1: MAC Methods for IoT 3 minutes
ALOHA MAC Protocol(s) 5 minutes
An Overview of the TSCH MAC Protocol 8 minutes
The Channel Hopping Sequence Algorithm in TSCH MAC Protocol 7 minutes

7 readings Total 105 minutes

MAC Week Presentation 10 minutes
Introduction to Medium Access Control 5 minutes
Random Access and ALOHA MAC Protocols 10 minutes
Random Access and CSMA 5 minutes
Controlled Access 5 minutes
Exercise: Study ALOHA in Depth 60 minutes
IEEE Std 802.15.4-2015 TSCH Mode 10 minutes

3 assignments Total 50 minutes

Evaluation on MAC Protocols 10 minutes
Evaluation on TSCH 10 minutes
Build your schedule! 30 minutes

What's included

7 videos5 readings4 assignments

7 videos Total 16 minutes

Welcome to Week 2: 6TiSCH Adaptation Layer 2 minutes
Introduction to Week 2: 6TiSCH Adaptation Layer 2 minutes
Thomas Watteyne interview 4 minutes
Introduction: What needs does the 6TiSCH layer respond to? 2 minutes
Introduction: Resource Management using 6P and MSF 3 minutes
Introduction: How to build an MSF schedule? 1 minute
Introduction: The connection process 1 minute

5 readings Total 55 minutes

6TiSCH Week Presentation 10 minutes
Responsibilities of the 6TiSCH layer 10 minutes
Explanation of 6P and the MSF 15 minutes
Explanation of the MSF parameters 15 minutes
How a node connects to an existing network 5 minutes

4 assignments Total 70 minutes

Quiz on the responsibilities of the 6TiSCH layer 10 minutes
Quiz on 6P and the MSF 30 minutes
Quiz on the MSF parameters 20 minutes
Quiz on the connection process 10 minutes

What's included

8 videos14 readings9 assignments1 ungraded lab

8 videos Total 66 minutes

Welcome to Week 3: 6LoWPAN Adaptation Layer 3 minutes
Introduction to Week 3: 6LoWPAN Adaptation Layer 4 minutes
Interview: Why 6LoWPAN is employed in Enedis facilities 5 minutes
How 6LoWPAN enables to use IPv6 in IoT? 13 minutes
Examples of the IPv6 Header Compression 15 minutes
6LoWPAN Fragmentation and Reassembly Operations 5 minutes
6LoWPAN Frame Delivery Modes 12 minutes
RFC 8930: 6LoWPAN Fragment Forwarding (6LFF) 9 minutes

14 readings Total 100 minutes

6LoWPAN Week Presentation 3 minutes
IPv6 Header Format Overview 10 minutes
6LoWPAN Adaptation Layer 5 minutes
6LoWPAN Stacked Headers 5 minutes
RFC 6282: 6LoWPAN Compression Operation 20 minutes
RFC 4944: 6LoWPAN Fragmentation and Reassembly Operations 10 minutes
Introduction 1 minute
Mesh-Under 5 minutes
Route-Over (Per-hop Fragmentation & Reassembly) 5 minutes
Route Over (Per-hop Fragmentation & Reassembly): Issues 10 minutes
Introduction 1 minute
RFC 8930: On Forwarding 6LoWPAN Fragments over a Mesh IPv6 Network 10 minutes
Performance Evaluation 5 minutes
RFC 8931: 6LoWPAN Selective Fragment Recovery 10 minutes

9 assignments Total 95 minutes

Quiz on IPv6 Header Format 5 minutes
Quiz on 6LoWPAN Overview 5 minutes
Quiz on 6LoWPAN Compression Operation 15 minutes
Quiz on 6LoWPAN Fragmentation and Reassembly Operations 10 minutes
Quiz on Mesh-Under and Route-Over 15 minutes
Quiz on 6LFF 10 minutes
Quiz on 6LoWPAN Selective Fragment Recovery 5 minutes
Practice Lab guide and Quiz 15 minutes
Comprehension Quiz 15 minutes

1 ungraded lab Total 60 minutes

Practice Lab 60 minutes

What's included

6 videos5 readings6 assignments

6 videos Total 25 minutes

Welcome to Week 4: RPL Routing Protocol 2 minutes
Introduction to Week 4: RPL Routing Protocol 4 minutes
Principles of routing in the Internet 5 minutes
Pascal Thubert interview 4 minutes
RPL 5 minutes
DoDAG construction 4 minutes

5 readings Total 70 minutes

RPL Week Presentation 10 minutes
Relaying in IP networks and in LLNs 10 minutes
RPL: IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks 15 minutes
The DODAG creation with RPL 15 minutes
Metrics and shortest path selection 20 minutes

6 assignments Total 110 minutes

Quiz on routing principles (1/2) 10 minutes
Quiz on routing principles (2/2) 10 minutes
Quiz on RPL 10 minutes
Exercise on the Objective function OF0 and ETX 30 minutes
Exercise on RPL 20 minutes
Exercize on the Objective function OF0 30 minutes

What's included

1 reading

Instructors

Georgios Papadopoulos

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Nicolas Montavont

Institut Mines-Télécom

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Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis

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