Question Bank: Adhoc and Sensor Network (Units III & IV)

Unit – III
One Mark Questions:
1. List out the three major challenges faced in ad hoc networks to design routing protocols.
2. Discuss the various resource constraints faced in a sensor node design.
3. What is the main function of a proactive routing protocol?
4. What is the main difference between table-driven and on demand routing protocols?
5. Discuss the classification of the protocols based on routing topology.
6. Describe power-aware routing protocol.
7. What are the situations during which there will be an incremental update and full dump?
8. What is the main difference between soft state source-initiated to hard state source-
initiated protocol?
9. What is a multicast routing protocol?
10. Describe the function of multicast information handler.

Big Questions (Unit – III)

1. Explain with neat diagrams the route establishment and route repair procedures in DSDV
routing protocol. What are the drawbacks of this protocol? (CO3, K2)
2. Compare proactive, reactive and hybrid routing protocols through giving examples for
each type of protocol. (CO3, K4)
3. Discuss the operation of cluster-head gateway switching routing protocol. What are its
advantages and disadvantages? (CO3, K6)
4. Discuss in detail the ideal characteristics of a routing protocol. How would you ensure
that QoS can be ensured in ad hoc networks? (CO3, K6)
5. Explain the operation of Source-Tree Adaptive Routing Protocol. How does it achieve
low communication overhead among all table-driven routing protocols? (CO3, K2)
6. Analyze the functions of the following protocols using neat sketches: a) TORA b)
Location-Aided Routing. (CO2, K4)
7. Explain with neat diagram the route establishment and route maintenance in associative-
based routing.
8. Discuss the operation of Zone routing protocol with a neat diagram. (CO3, K6)
9. Elaborate on the various issues that challenge design of multicast routing protocols.
(CO3, K6)
10. Explain the architecture reference model for multicast routing protocols. (CO3, K2)

Unit – IV
One Mark Questions:
1. Draw a block diagram showing the major components in a sensor node.
2. What is the functionality of controller in sensor node?
3. Which of the components in sensor node is more power hungry?
4. Why do you need a sleeping period in wireless sensor network?
5. What should be done when there is no activity in the network?
6. Why are cross-layer mechanisms needed in WSN?
7. Describe a self-organizing sensor network.
8. How do you address heterogeneity in WSN nodes?
9. Describe data-centric networking.
10. Distinguish between a source and a sink in WSN.

Big Questions (Unit – IV)

1. Discuss with a neat diagram Single-hop and multi-hop WSN networks. Why you need
cooperative relaying. (CO4, K6)
2. Elaborate on the types of sources and sinks in WSN (CO4, K6)
3. What are the design principles of WSNs? How are they achieved? (CO4, K1)
4. Explain adaptive fidelity and accuracy with a concrete example. (CO4, K2)
5. How would you identify and exploit activity patterns in a typical WSN? Explain with a
typical example. (CO4, K3)
6. Summarize on the component-based protocol stacks and cross-layer optimization. (CO4,
K2)
7. Examine the necessity of data centricity in WSN. Support your argument with an
example. (CO4, K4)
8. Why do you need In-network processing? Analyze your argument with an example.
(CO4, K4)
9. Explain the various operation states with different power consumption with a neat sketch.
(CO4, K2)
10. Explain the various transceiver tasks and characteristics in detail. (CO4, K2)