Course
Project Information:
The course project requires
students to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of some important
aspect of wireless networks and/or network protocol performance.
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 is publishable!)
The research project can summarize
what you have learned from the research papers (not copy-paste from the
original paper), compare different approaches in different papers,
(ideally) present your own (novel) anlaytical and simulation research
results
on a relevant networking problem, and criticise
the positive and negative features of the system or method studied.
Results may be obtained analytically, through simulation, or
experimentally
through measurement of an existing system or implementation.
Typically, the project should be 15-20 pages in length,
including abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography.
Use a reasonable word processing package (Latex is strongly
recommended),
a readable font size, and single-column formatting.
1. Choose your topic and let me approve it, on/before Oct. 1.
You can either check the course
reading
list, and choose a topic there; or let me know your
interested topic which is related to computer networking.
Besides the reading list, you may check the recent papers in good
conferences and journals: IEEE Infocom/Globecom/ICC, ACM
Sigcomm/MobiCom/MobiHoc, IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on
Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Journal
on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular
Technology, etc.
If you can not find good topics, please let me know and I can recommend
some topics to you.
2. Email me a one-page project proposal in plain text or PDF format,
on/before Nov. 1.
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.
Informal feedback will be provided on the scope and suitability
of your proposed project, though the project proposal itself
will not be marked. Deviations from the proposed project
at a later stage are still possible, if discussed with me first.
3. Submit the completed project report in PDF format, on/before Dec.
17, 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:
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.