Reading Lists for the Exam

• Chapter 1: Bagha and Madisetti: Internet of Things - A Hands-On Approach. (hardcopy handed out)
• Mattern and Floerkemeier: From the Internet of Computers to the Internet of Things
• Chapter 1: Programming Embedded Systems in C and C++
• Chapter 5 and 6 in Guinard and Trifa: Building the Web of Things (hardcopy handed out)
• NIST Cloud Computing
• Arshdeep Bahga and Vijay Madisetti. Cloud Computing: A Hands-On-Approach. (Chapters 1 and 2) – (Hardcopy handed out)
• Fink, G. A. et al.(2015). Security and privacy grand challenges for the Internet of Things. In IEEE International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), (pp. 27-34).
• Lectures notes, practice questions, and hands-on assignments A,B, and C

Exam structure

In the examination of the IoT module, you will draw 1 topic and be expected to present the most important points within 4-5 minutes.

In addition, you will be given a few questions on other topics related to IoT and Cloud. Here only relatively short answers are expected.

The topics

• IoT, IoT system architecture, IoT devices, characteristics
• Embedded systems, sensors, actuators, microcontrollers, digital and analog input/output
• Embedded system/software development, hardware/software co-design, programming model
• IoT protocols: IP, UDP/TCP, HTTP, CoAP, WebSockets
• Web-of-things: REST APIs, publish-subscribe messaging and MQTT
• Cloud computing: Characteristics, service models, deployment models, storage/compute and relevant technologies
• Security in IoT: Design challenges and threats of IoT systems

The total examination time for this module is ~10 minutes. You are allowed to have 1-2 sheets of paper sheets with notes and consult these occasionally