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ECSE 6500 - Distributed Systems and Sensor Networks

Recent developments in systems, sensors, communications, and networking technologies enable the development of large-scale distributed systems incorporating many individual nodes. This course takes an algorithmic approach to distributed systems for sensor fusion, localization and tracking, distributed robotics and sensor-based control. It also presents the basic principles of sensor node architectures and wireless sensor networks. Applications include environmental monitoring, biomedical systems, and security-related tracking problems.

Prerequisite or Corequisite: Prerequisite: ECSE 2410  or equivalent.

When Offered: AVAILABILITY OF INSTRUCTOR

Co-Listed: ECSE 4500 .  Students cannot receive credit for both this course and ECSE 4500 .

Graded: GRADED

Credit Hours: 3

Contact, Lecture or Lab Hours: 3