Project

Purpose

The purpose of the paper/project is to provide an in-depth experience of current practice in an area of computer networking.
 

Format

The paper/project should combine an examination of literature following current work in an area of interest and either a research paper or an implementation (software or hardware) that makes some significant use of computer networking. A team of up to two students may collaborate on a programming project.
 

Grading

The paper/project and presentation will count for 15% of the final grade.
 

Proposal

The written proposal should outline the specific goal of the paper/project. A paper might examine current compression techniques while a project might implement several for comparison. Enough detail should be provided that the instructor can evaluate the scope of the paper/project and the skills required.

• Example proposal.
   

Literature Search

• A short discussion of literature examined as relating to the paper/project.
• A bibliography of literature examined.
• Example (note that the example was part of a book chapter so is more than expected)

Status Report

A written report (1 page) indicating the status of each of the following areas:

• Research of current literature.
• Writing of paper or implementation of project.

Research results

• Paper - The paper should stress the application to networking. All papers should include a bibliography of information sources, whether online (provide URL and date accessed) or traditional print source. The paper should be provided to instructor in both print and as an HTML document. Several research paper guides are available online and should be consulted.
• Presentation - The presentation is to last 10-20 minutes during the course syllabus scheduled period. It should include visuals and can include demonstration. Two mutually networked computers (not connected to the campus LAN) with Microsoft .Net, Java and one projection unit will be available if needed for demonstration. Contact the instructor at least two days in advance if other equipment arrangements are required.
• Example - An example of a paper satisfying the formatting and content criteria for this course.

Project results

• Implementation - All projects should produce an implementation for demonstration. For example, a project on data encryption might survey different techniques and examine the relative merits of each. The implementation might consist of a RSA program that, given a private key, encrypted a file, then given a public key, decrypted the file back to clear text. Printed copies of representative execution outputs and machine readable copies of source code should be provided to the instructor in standard form for the language used (e.g. various image, code, and project files for Visual Basic).
• Presentation - The presentation is to last 10-20 minutes during the course syllabus scheduled period. It should include a demonstration of the project results. Two mutually networked computers (not connected to the campus LAN) with Microsoft .Net, Java and one projection unit will be available. Contact the instructor at least two days in advance if other equipment arrangements are required.
• Final results - At noted above, printed and copies of written report/presentation and execution output should be provided instructor. The report/presentation and a separate ZIPPED copy of source code (be sure to put a copyright notice in your files) should be emailed as attachments to rwisman@ius.edu. Alternatively, store using OnCourse for B438.

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