Assignments: COMPSCI 742 Semester 2, City Campus

Each student will do an in-class presentation of a selected paper from the networking research literature. Your presentation will last around 20 minutes. The presentation should highlight the topic, methodology, results, and contributions of the paper. You do not need to present the entire contents of the paper. It suffices to present the key takeaway messages to give us a good feel about the paper, and how (or if) the paper relates to material covered during the lectures. After the presentation, you will lead a 5-minute question and answer discussion session. You will be assessed on the quality of your presentation (slides, organization, pace, content, insights), your understanding of the content presented, and your question-answering ability.

In addition to the paper presentation, you will need to write a 1-page review of the paper you selected for presentation. You will act as a reviewer and comment on the novelty, technical quality, strength, and weaknesses of the paper. Note that it does not suffice to simply summarize the paper.

Paper list can be downloaded found in CANVAS.

The group project requires students to demonstrate an in-depth understanding of some important aspect of computer networking. The project should take the form of a research paper, similar to those found in the published networking literature. The research paper should present your own research results on a relevant network performance problem. Results may be obtained analytically, through simulation, or experimentally through measurement of an existing system or implementation. The paper should be 6-8 pages in length (double column, single spaced), including abstract, figures, tables, and bibliography. Use a reasonable word processing software such as Latex or Word.

Background reading is important to write a good research paper on a given topic. This should be reflected in your bibliography. Creativity, originality, and your own contribution are also required. This may involve applying previously known approaches to new network data or scenarios, or applying new approaches or analyses to previously studied data or scenarios, or new approaches to new problems entirely.

You will be required to give a group presentation about your project as well.

The Department of Computer Science has a general policy on cheating and plagiarism, within the University policy on academic honesty. Briefly, if we detect material in assignments or projects that appears to be copied from elsewhere without due acknowledgement, we will normally give zero marks for that assignment or project. Appeals must be in writing to the Head of Department (not to the lecturer).