Course
Project Information:
The course project requires
students to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of modeling and analysis
tools learned from the course, and to apply the tools in solving practical problems.
The project should take the form of a research paper, similar
to those found in the published networking literature. (Of course,
there is no requirement that your project be publishable!)
It should contain the following sections.
1. Introduction: what is the problem and what inspires you to study the problem.
2. Related work: are there any existing work solving similar problems or using the similar tools that you use in your project.
3. System model: what are the specific scenarios, settings, and assumptions considered in your project.
4. Performance analysis: present the analytical framework to solve the problem.
5. Performance evaulation (optional): present the simulation/emulation/test results to validate the analysis and to investigate the system performance.
6. Conclusion.
Appendix: the main contributions of the author.
The project should be 15-20 pages in length,
including abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography.
Use a reasonable word processing package,
a readable font size, and single-column formatting.
1. Email me a 1-page project proposal in plain text or PDF format,
on/before Nov. 10.
The proposal should clearly identify
the topic being addressed and your proposed approach to the problem.
A list of papers related to the project should be included in the
proposal. This proposal will be my record of what you are working on.
The project proposal itself
will not be marked. Deviations from the proposed project
at a later stage are still possible.
2. Submit the project report in PDF format, on/before December
15, 4pm.
Projects involving significant implementation effort
can be accompanied by a demo, if appropriate. The course project will
be evaluated according to its novelty, technical soundness,
contribution, and presentation quality.
Some tips in technical
reading and writing:
How do I evaluate the project
report: (similar to the criteria for paper review)
- Novelty and originality: does the report contains original idea
and work?
- Importance of the problem: is the problem studied in the report
important and relevant?
- Technical contributions: is the material consistent and correct?
are the conclusions well supported?
- Presentation: is it well written and concise? are ideas well
expressed? is the paper well organized? is the topic adequately and
concisely treated?
- Illustration: are the plots, diagrams, and photos readily
understandable; do they support the text?
- References: is the related work on this work adequately
recognized?
Latex:
- Latex template for IEEE:
- Unix LaTeX2e Transactions Style File:
http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtran.tar.gz
- Unix Bibliography File:
http://www.ieee.org/documents/IEEEtranBST.tar.gz
- Tutorial (tons of them in the Internet):
- http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
- Math symbols: http://web.ift.uib.no/Teori/KURS/WRK/TeX/symALL.html
Plagiarism (including
self-plagiarism):
Any figure/table/algorithm/paragraph being copied-pasted from existing
publications without citation is considered as plagiarism or academic
cheating. Any report with identified plagiarism leads to a mark of zero
and a notification being sent to the student's supervisor.