IoT Standards and Protocols

1. Course Title IoT Standards and Protocols
2. Code 4ФЕИТ07016А
3. Study program Dedicated Embedded Computer Systems and Internet of Things
4. Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies

Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
5. Degree (first, second, third cycle) Second cycle
6. Academic year/semester Year I Semester 1
7. Workload measured by number of ECTS credits 6
8. Lecturer (In case of several lecturers to note the responsible one) Dr. Danijela Efnusheva
9. Language of teaching Macedonian and English
10. Course Prerequisites None
11. Course Goals (acquired competencies) and study results:

Students will learn the basic standards and protocols for IoT systems. After the competition of the course, they will be able to design and develop software for different types of IoT applications in terms of data exchange in various IoT scenarios.
12. Course Syllabus (with Chapters) and study results for each chapter:

  1. Introduction to the basic standards and protocols for IoT networking.
  2. Introduction to the existing standards and protocols of the physical, data link and network layer of the protocol stack.
  3. Physical layer of devices in IoT environment: sensors, actuators, M2M communication.
  4. Internet in IoT devices. Data link layer protocols for communication between IoT devices: IEEE 802.15.4, 802.11ah, ZigBee, LoRaWAN, LTE-M, NB-IoT.
  5. Network layer protocols of IoT: IPv6, RPL, 6LoWPAN, 6TiSCH.
  6. A special focus on the session protocols, i.e. the data exchange protocols, such as MQTT, CoAP, XMPP, LwM2M, RESTfull HTTP, etc.
  7. Utilization of the open data protocols for the development of IoT applications.
  8. Applications of IoT systems: Internet of people, Internet of cars, Internet of media etc.
13. Interconnection of Courses: This course develops the details regading the network layers and protocols used in the IoT systems. Thus, it is thightly connected to the basic course regarding IoT – Internet of things, as well as the network basic courses like: Dedicated and contemporary computer networks and Wireless Technologies and Networks for Internet of Things.
14. Detailed description of teaching and work methods:

Lectures, independent learning, independent work on project tasks and preparation of seminar papers.
15. Total number of course hours 180
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 Forms of teaching 

 

 16.1 Lectures-theoretical teaching 45 hours

 
16.2 Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork 45 hours

 
16.3 Practical work (hours): 20 hours
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 Other course activities

 

 17.1 Projects, seminar papers 45 hours
17.2 Individual tasks 0 hours
17.3 Homework and self-learning 25 hours
18. Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam: 60% of all required course activities
19. Grading
19.1 Quizzes 30 points
19.2 Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) 50 points
19.3 Final Exam 20 points
20. Grading criteria (points) up to 50 points 5 (five) (F)
from 51 to 60 points 6 (six) (E)
from 61 to 70 points 7 (seven) (D)
from 71 to 80 points 8 (eight) (C)
from 81 to 90 points 9 (nine) (B)
from 91 to 100 points 10 (ten) (A)
21. Method of monitoring of teaching quality Self-evaluation and student surveys
     
22. Literature
22.1. Required Literature
No. Author Title Publisher Year
1. Olivier Hersent, David Boswarthick, Omar Elloumi The Internet of Things: Key Applications and Protocols Wiley 2012
2. Simone Cirani, Gianluigi Ferrari, Marco Picone, Luca Veltri Internet of Things: Architectures, Protocols and Standards Wiley 2018
3. David Hanes, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Rob Barton IoT Fundamentals: Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Use Cases for the Internet of Things Cisco Press 2017
22.2. Additional Literature
No. Author Title Publisher Year
1.  Hwaiyu Geng  Internet of Things and Data Analytics Handbook  Wiley  2016