CPEG 577 - Internet of Things

3 Credit(s)

Prerequisites: CPEG 472, CPEG 572, or CPEG 481.
This course focuses on a new emerging topic - The Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine Communications (M2M). The course includes a good amount of background review to get all students to an equivalent level, but primarily lectures will follow a seminar style structure. This implies course work includes readings, presentations and discussion of technical papers taken from the currently available IoT literature. Seminar style requires active student participation in both the presentations and in the discussions. Prior to the class / seminar, students are required to review an assigned article. Then we will have a thorough and interactive discussion in the classroom. The course syllabus will intentionally adapt to the interests and backgrounds of the students. This course will focus more narrowly on just a few key areas. Class lectures will be a combination of review of relevant networking material and presentation of papers from the current literature on the Internet of Things. Depending on length and complexity, the class will typically cover one or more research papers per week in class. Students should try to submit papers that they would be both qualified and interested in presenting in class.