CS G518: Internet of Things: Design and Development

About the course

CS G518 is a graduate level course that aims at providing a sound conceptual and hands-on foundation in the area of IoT. The course attempts to provide a balanced treatment of the mechanisms and environments of IoT and initiates senior CS students to the state-of-the-art in the area. At the end of this course, students should be able to conceptualize, analyze, and design IoT systems. We will learn the OSes, wireless network technologies, and programming languages that such systems utilize. We will use REST-ful APIs to retrieve data from sensors and use simple signal processing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence techniques to summarize the data.

Prerequisites

Students should have completed the Computer Programming course and Operating Systems course before enrolling for CS G518

Instructors

Prof. Sougata Sen (sougatas AT goa DOT bits DASH pilani DOT ac DOT in)

Schedule

Classes hours: MWF 12 to 12:50 PM
No graduate level course can depend on only one book. Text books are being mentioned here only for providing a useful point of reference in keeping with the current practice.
T1: Arshdeep Bagha and Vijay Madisetti,”Internet of Things: A Hands-on Approach”, University Press (India) Pvt. Ltd. (2015) ISBN 10: 8173719543 ISBN 13: 9788173719547
T2: Surya Durbha and Jyoti Joglekar, “Internet of Things”, Oxford University Press, (2021), ISBN: 0190121092, 9780190121099
T3: Adrian McEwen and Hakim Cassimally, “Designing the Internet of Things”, Wiley Publication (2013), ISBN 9781118430651, 1118430654
T4: Qusay Hassan, “Internet of Things A to Z: Technologies and Applications” IEEE Press, Wiley (2018), ISBN: 978-111-945674-2
T5: Pete Warden and Daniel Situnayake, “TinyML” O’Reilly Publication (2019), ISBN: 9781492052043

This course will refer to several recent conference and journal papers. Details and link to these papers will be provided in Canvas.

Lec #	Date	Tag	Topic Covered	Due date for (all times are at 5 PM)	Slides / other resource link	Remarks
1	23/8/2021	Lec: Intro	Introduction to the course	-	Slide Recording (Links to an external site.)
2	25/8/2021	Lec: Intro	Logical diagram of IoT deployment; Levels of deployment	-	Slide Recording (Links to an external site.)	Optional reading before class: Nam Bui et al. 2021. EBP: an ear-worn device for frequent and comfortable blood pressure monitoring. Commun. ACM 64, 8 (August 2021), 118–125. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3470446
3	27/8/2021	Lec: Intro	Application of IoT: home automation, smart cities, energy, agriculture, healthcare, environment, logistics, wildlife	-	Recording (Links to an external site.) Slide Complementary Applications Slide	Optional reading before class: Werner-Allen, Geoff, et al. "Fidelity and yield in a volcano monitoring sensor network." Proceedings of the 7th symposium on Operating systems design and implementation. 2006.
	30/8/2021	Pro: Title due	Holiday: No class	Project group names and project title
4	1/9/2021	Lec: Intro	IoT protocol stack, IoT vs. CPS, IoT vs. M2M, IoT vs. IoV, IoT vs. V2X, IoT vs. WSN.		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slide
5	3/9/2021	Lec: Design	IoT design methodology: Specification and development		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slide	Optional reading before class: Ngu, A. H., Gutierrez, M., Metsis, V., Nepal, S., & Sheng, Q. Z. (2016). IoT middleware: A survey on issues and enabling technologies. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 4(1), 1-20. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7582463
6	6/9/2021	Lec:Design&Dev	Understanding working and applications of Sensors and actuators		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slide
7	8/9/2021	Lec:Design&Dev	Understanding working and applications of Sensors and actuators; Available tools and techniques to develop IoT applications		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slide	Optional reading before class: Daniel A. Winkler and Alberto E. Cerpa. 2019. WISDOM: watering intelligently at scale with distributed optimization and modeling. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 219–231. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3356250.3360023
	10/9/2021	Pro: Abstract due	Holiday: No class	Project abstract and high level plan due
	11/9/2021	Pap:Critique due			File	Charles E. Catlett, Peter H. Beckman, Rajesh Sankaran, and Kate Kusiak Galvin. 2017. Array of things: a scientific research instrument in the public way: platform design and early lessons learned. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering (SCOPE '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 26–33. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3063386.3063771
8	13/9/2021	Lec:Design&Dev	Arduino tutorial — the hardware stack, what is MCU, what it does. Programming Arduino devices		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slide	Hands-on session (if possible)
9	15/9/2021	Lec:Dev&Prog	Arduino tutorial — the software stack. IoT middleware and firmware examples		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slides	Tutorial Session
10	17/9/2021	Lec:Dev&Prog	Arduino programming and interfacing with sensors and GPIOs,		Recording (Links to an external site.) UART Demo (Links to an external site.) DigitalPin Demo (Links to an external site.) Slides
11	20/9/2021	Lec:Dev&Prog	Introduction to other IoT development platforms		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slides
12	22/9/2021	Lec:Dev&Prog	Programming IoT: Introduction to Python,		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slides
13	24/9/2021	Lec:Dev&Prog	Introduction to Raspberry Pi interfacing,		Recording (Links to an external site.) Slides
	25/9/2021	Pap:Critique due			File	Palanivel A. Kodeswaran, Ravi Kokku, Sayandeep Sen, and Mudhakar Srivatsa. 2016. Idea: A System for Efficient Failure Management in Smart IoT Environments. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 43–56. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2906388.2906406
14	27/9/2021	Lec:Dev&Prog	IoT design methodology: Specification and development; Architecture for IoT Middleware: Reference Model, Service-Based IoT, Cloud-Based IoT, Actor-Based IoT, Key Challenges for IoT Middleware		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Optional Reading: Suman Nath. 2012. ACE: exploiting correlation for energy-efficient and continuous context sensing. In Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys '12). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 29–42. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/2307636.2307640
15	29/9/2021	Lec:Comm	Architecture for IoT Middleware; Protocol stack for IoT: introduction to protocol stack, difference between OSI model and IoT protocol stack, understanding physical and link layer		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
16	1/10/2021	Lec:Comm Pro: Method	Protocol stack for IoT: introduction to protocol stack, difference between OSI model and IoT protocol stack, understanding physical and link layers	Project: literature review and methodology due	Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
17	4/10/2021	Lec:Comm	Wi-Fi HaLow, Bluetooth Low Energy,		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
18	6/10/2021	Lec:Comm	IPv4, IPv6, 6LoWPAN		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
19	8/10/2021	Lec:Comm	CoAP, MQTT, XMPP		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
	9/10/2021	Pap:Critique due			File	Sougata Sen and David Kotz. 2020. VibeRing: using vibrations from a smart ring as an out-of-band channel for sharing secret keys. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 13, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3410992.3410995
20	11/10/2021	Lec:Comm	Impact on network performance due to IoTs; Interfacing with Cloud: introduction to cloud services for IoT, Uploading, storing and downloading data to/from IoT devices,		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
21	12/10/2021	Lec:Comm	Potential solutions to network performance with NFV, SDN, VMs; Cloud, cloudlets, fogs		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Friday routine followed on Tuesday
22	13/10/2021	Lec:ML	Processing data from IoT devices		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)
	15/10/2021		No class
	18/10/2021		No class
	20/10/2021		No class
	22/10/2021		No class
	25/10/2021		No class
23	27/10/2021	Lec:tinyML	Introduction to Deep Learning and Tensorflow.		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Optional reading: https://petewarden.com/2018/06/11/why-the-future-of-machine-learning-is-tiny/
24	29/10/2021	Lec:TinyML	Using TensorFlowLite in IoT applications		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.) Colab1 (Links to an external site.) Colab2 (Links to an external site.)	Optional reading: David, Robert, Jared Duke, Advait Jain, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Nat Jeffries, Jian Li, Nick Kreeger et al. "Tensorflow lite micro: Embedded machine learning on tinyml systems." arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08678 (2020). https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08678
	30/10/2021	Pap:Critique due			File	Swadhin Pradhan and Lili Qiu. 2020. RTSense: passive RFID based temperature sensing. In Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 42–55. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3384419.3430729
	1/11/2021		No class
	3/11/2021		No class
	5/11/2021		No class
25	8/11/2021	Lec:TinyML Pap:Critique due	Using TensorFlowLite in IoT applications		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.) File	Valentin Radu, Catherine Tong, Sourav Bhattacharya, Nicholas D. Lane, Cecilia Mascolo, Mahesh K. Marina, and Fahim Kawsar. 2018. Multimodal Deep Learning for Activity and Context Recognition. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 4, Article 157 (December 2017), 27 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3161174
26	10/11/2021	Lec:TinyML	Using TensorFlowLite in IoT applications		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Hands-on session (if possible)
27	12/11/2021	Lec:Evaluation	Evaluating IoT systems. Understanding user studies, experimental setup, performance measures, data visualization approaches		No Class- Waves
28	15/11/2021	Lec:Evaluation Pap:Critique due	Evaluating IoT systems. Understanding user studies, experimental setup, performance measures, data visualization approaches		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.) File	Paper critiquing: Hoang Truong et al. 2020. Painometry: wearable and objective quantification system for acute postoperative pain. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 419–433. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3386901.3389022
29	17/11/2021	Lec:Wearables	Introduction to wearable computing, challenges in wearable computing, power and memory awareness		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Class discussion on: Likun Fang, Tobias Röddiger, Hongye Sun, Norbert Willenbacher, and Michael Beigl. 2020. FLECTILE: 3D-printable soft actuators for wearable computing. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3410531.3414307 (Links to an external site.) Jingxian Wang, Chengfeng Pan, Haojian Jin, Vaibhav Singh, Yash Jain, Jason I. Hong, Carmel Majidi, and Swarun Kumar. 2019. RFID Tattoo: A Wireless Platform for Speech Recognition. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 4, Article 155 (December 2019), 24 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3369812 (Links to an external site.) Sougata Sen, Sunghoon Ivan Lee, Robert Jackson, Rui Wang, Nabil Alshurafa, Josiah Hester, and Jeremy Gummeson. 2020. Towards Battery-Free Body Sensor Networks. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys '20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3417308.3430275 (Links to an external site.)
30	18/11/2021	Lec:Wearables	Introduction to wearable computing, challenges in wearable computing, power and memory awareness		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Friday’s Time Table to be followed Class discussion on: T. Starner, "The challenges of wearable computing: Part 1," in IEEE Micro, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 44-52, July-Aug. 2001, doi: 10.1109/40.946681. T. Starner, "The challenges of wearable computing: Part 2," in IEEE Micro, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 54-67, July-Aug. 2001, doi: 10.1109/40.946683.
31	22/11/2021	Lec:Battery-free	Introduction to intermittent computing. Understanding breakpoints during limited power availability. Use cases		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Class discussion on: Lucia, Brandon, Vignesh Balaji, Alexei Colin, Kiwan Maeng, and Emily Ruppel. "Intermittent computing: Challenges and opportunities." In 2nd Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2017). Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2017. Umesh, Sumanth, and Sparsh Mittal. "A survey of techniques for intermittent computing." Journal of Systems Architecture 112 (2021): 101859. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383762120301430
32	24/11/2021	Lec:Battery-free	Introduction to intermittent computing. Understanding breakpoints during limited power availability. Use cases		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Class discussion on: Seulki Lee, Bashima Islam, Yubo Luo, and Shahriar Nirjon. 2019. Intermittent Learning: On-Device Machine Learning on Intermittently Powered System. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 3, 4, Article 141 (December 2019), 30 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3369837
33	26/11/2021	Lec:Security	Introduction to security protocols for IoT. Application Security, approaches to preserve privacy, federated learning		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Class discussion on: Ammar, Mahmoud, Giovanni Russello, and Bruno Crispo. "Internet of Things: A survey on the security of IoT frameworks." Journal of Information Security and Applications 38 (2018): 8-27.
34	29/11/2021	Lec:Security	Introduction to security protocols for IoT. Application Security, approaches to preserve privacy, federated learning		Slides Recording (Links to an external site.)	Class discussion on: David Kotz and Travis Peters. 2017. Challenges to ensuring human safety throughout the life-cycle of Smart Environments. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings'17). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3137003.3137012
35	1/12/2021	Lec:Case-Study	IoT design case studies: smart lighting, weather monitoring, forest fire detection, smart irrigation, IoT printer, IoT Health Care.		Slides Recording 1 (Links to an external site.) Recording (Links to an external site.)2	H. -N. Dai, Z. Zheng and Y. Zhang, "Blockchain for Internet of Things: A Survey," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 8076-8094, Oct. 2019, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2920987.
36	3/12/2021	Pro: Presentation	Project Presentation by Groups 1,2,3,4,5
37	6/12/2021	Pro: Presentation	Project Presentation by Groups 6,7,8,9,10
38	8/12/2021	Pro: Presentation Pro:Final	Project Presentation as demo session by all Groups: Open to all	Research paper of project	Recording (Links to an external site.)

Tools

Communication : Slack
LMS: Canvas
Class: Google Meet