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FIT9137 Assignment 2 - Presentation
Submission Guidelines
The Assessment – Assignment 2 – Presentation is worth 25% of the Unit Marks.
Deadline: Week-8 – 15th September 2023 Friday - 11:55pm (Melbourne time)
● Submission format and details:
● To avoid academic integrity issues please avoid copy and paste from any resources. Ifyou use a reference, please clearly cite them. In particular, copy and paste from: 1) assignment instructions and/or2) from supporting and reference documentations.It is strongly discouraged as this will be picked up by Turnitin and would increaseyour similarity scores. Any similarity score > 20% would trigger our attention andwe will have to investigate it officially.
● Please be aware your assignments will be checked through and will be marked byTurnitin and you should avoid the above two important points. Also any text must bephrased in your own words and to your best understanding.
● Please note that the requirements for Assignment are different from those that maybe given in the supporting documents in the Moodle, so your knowledge andunderstanding should be for the assessment tasks requirements and any supportingdocumentation you refer would only be a guidance and cannot be copied verbatimfrom those resources.
● Submitted files via two submission links should be of these file formats:
● Presentation file: - Firstname_LastName_StudentID.PDF &
● Video Presentation file: - FirstName_LastName. (.mov .movie .mp4
.mpeg .mpg .mov .swf .avi .f4v .flv .fmp4 or any other compatible video
file extension)”
● The 25% of the unit marks are allocated for final recorded video presentation andyour presentation slides uploaded in Moodle and due on Friday of Week 8(deadline). The uploaded file must be a clear student video recording of thepresentation. The file can be any video format that can be opened on a standardcomputer without specialised software (such as mp4). The length of the recordingshould be a maximum of 15:00 minutes only. A pdf or ppt version of yourpresentation slides should also be submitted to Moodle. You will be marked based onboth your presentation video and slides (including the recorded pages and yourAppendix).
Network Design Individual Assignment
● Please note that you have to follow the same instructions as in Assignment 1regarding presenting a copy of your student ID and showing your face for the Videoand Presentation files as well.
● The marks breakdown for the Assignment-2 will be 30% for video presentation and70% for the content on the network design concept in the presentation slides.
● Important Submission check for every student: It is the students’ responsibility to check
if their submitted work is markable by our teaching team. It is strongly recommended
that, after making a draft submission (before finalising it), every student immediately
download their own draft submitted work (e.g., recorded video/PDF/imn file, etc) and
check if the draft submission would be downloadable/readable/markable by a tutor. If
the teaching team member is unable to mark your submission, 50% reduction of total
marks may be applied.
● When you submit the assignment on Moodle and perform the above check, please make
sure the submission is not left in the draft mode. Before the expiry of the deadline make
sure, the submission ismade final. If the submission is left in draftmode, it will be deemed
as NOT submitted.
● You can create multiple video parts at different times, and combine and submit a single videoat the end. Make sure that the final video is clear and understandable.
● If your device does not have a camera, you can borrow a device from Monash Connect orLibrary. It's your responsibility to plan ahead for this. Monash Connect or Library not havingavailable devices for loan at a particular point in time is not a valid excuse.
● The teaching team members may not be able to understand a language beyond English. TheGUI tool you use for demonstrations must be in English. If your device does not supportEnglish, you may loan a device from Monash Connect or Library.
Penalties:
• Late submissions will result in a 10% deduction of the total marks per calendar day (up to oneweek). For example, if you get 80/100 marks originally and submit 2 days late, then you wouldget a 20-mark deduction (10 marks per day) and your final marks would be 60/100.
• Submissions more than 7 calendar days after the due date will receive a mark of zero (0) andno assessment feedback will be provided.
• If the video recording exceeds the 15.00-minute limit, a penalty will apply as follows. For eachextra 1-60 seconds, 10 marks will be deducted, e.g., for videos of 15.01-16:00 minutes long, 10marks will be deducted, etc.
• Speeding up the video recording (e.g., using software) is NOT allowed and such submissionswill receive a ZEROmark.
Assignment release/marking policy:
• The unit policy is to release the assignment for the student to work for two workingsemester weeks on the assessment. Hence two complete weeks will be provided forstudents to work on the Assignment-2. Please note that the markings and feedback willbe completed and given within 2weeks’ time. Your total final combined marks for thisassignment will be uploaded to only one of the submission links.
Network Design Individual Assignment
Learning Outcomes covered:
• Analyse and formulate the functions and architectures of (wireless) local area networks,building backbone networks and the Internet.
• Examine networks using the underlying fundamental theories, models and protocols for datatransmission.
• The Assignment-2 covers material fromWeeks 4-6.
Late submissions and special considerations:
• All extension and special consideration requests are managed centrally. The teachingteam cannot directly decide if you can/cannot have a late submission.
• Without an approved special consideration request, you lose 10% of total marks per
day that you submit late. Submissions more than 5 days late will not be accepted.
• If you would like to apply for Special Case Consideration, there are two submission
links so if a student wants to apply for short extension or special consideration, theyhave to fill out one extension form for each submission link, i.e. Assignment-2 Video filesubmission link & Assignment-2 Presentation file submission link.
Plagiarism: This is an individual assignment. Group work is not allowed. It is an academic integrityrequirement that your submittedwork be original. Zeromarks will be given for the whole submissionif there is any evidence of copying, collaboration, pasting fromwebsites, contract cheating, or copyingfrom textbooks. When you are asked to use Internet resources to answer a question, this does notmean copying and pasting text from websites. Write answers in your own words such that yourunderstanding of the answer is evident.
Marks: This assignment is worth 25% of your unit marks.
Feedback: Your Tutor will provide you with marks and feedback. If you cannot explain/present yourwork in video or what youwrite in your presentation slides, youmay get lowmarks due to not havingsynchronised material in video presentation and submitted files.
Presentation: The presentation should look professional, which means you need to pay attention tospelling, punctuation, grammar, and visualization. It is important that your presentation has a clearstructure. Prepare presentation slides of at least 10 pages/slides* long and a maximum of 15pages/slides. The presentation should ideally not contain too much text and should use a minimumfont size of 12pt (preferably larger). You may include tables, figures, pictures, graphical designs etc.The page/slide limit doesn’t include title page, references, and Appendix. Any page/slide beyond thepage/slide limit of 15 will not be marked. Use FIT standard presentation format.
Note: *page/slide = You can call it either Page or Slide
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Note: You can find great tips on how to prepare a presentation onMonash’sweb pages. Here are somelinks to get started:
Language and Learning and Online website:
● Software tools for drawing sitemaps, any drawing tool should work, for example LucidChart,or even presentation tools such as PowerPoint, Keynote or Google Slides. Scans of hand-drawnmaps are acceptable if they are neat and easily readable.
● In order to record yourself for the voice-over presentation, we recommend you use Zoom. Monash University – Zoom . However, you are free to use any othersoftware as long as the final file submitted to Moodle is understandable by our teaching team.
Network Design Individual Assignment
Reporting: An Enterprise Network Design Report
A Request For Proposal (RFP) to DesignWired LANs,
Wireless LANs and support Backbone Network
1. Assignment Description
ObjectiveA public transport company requires its office buildings to be connected over a wired LAN andWireless LAN (WLAN). You have been asked to respond to the following excerpt from their RFP(Request For Proposals) in the newspaper.
Scope of TheWorkAt present, the total number of office employees in Melbourne is 350. Each office worker isprovidedwith an office space or cubicle with amultimedia desktop PC having a wired networkconnection. Owing to a business acquisition, the number of employees in Melbourne isexpected to increase substantially. The size of the Melbourne office, both Wired and WirelessLAN will increase (from current 350 employees) to 650 employees; after two new 2-storeybuildings called East side building &West side building (located across the road) have beenacquired to accommodate the additional office space needed to provide equitable seatingarrangements for the increased number of employees in the new buildings (see Figure 1).
The new buildings require structured network wiring for network connections, where each floorhas a wiring closet with necessary structured cabling. Eachwiring closet requires four fiber optic
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cables running to a dedicated server room in the basement (same as the ground floor). The newbuildings also need a backbone network to be connected to the existing Main office network(across the road). Please note that the ground floor of the buildings (west and east) are not thesame, they have different ground floor(same as the word basement)It is envisaged that the new buildings in Melbourne office would support, both, wired and
wireless networked office environment where each of the staff PC and their personal laptopswould be equipped with office desktop high resolution video conferencing software (VoIP),along with the usual business applications such as web, email, and regular office productivitypackages. The average network traffic generated by each active wired network user is estimatedto be around 20-25 Mbps, while the WLAN traffic generated for each floor would be 20% of thewired traffic.The expected user activity pattern for the new buildings may be seen in Figure 2, where the newbuildings will accommodate the new staff members equally distributed to each floor of the newbuildings. The Wired LAN infrastructure needs to be designed to support the anticipated peaktime data traffic, and in addition, support the Wireless LAN. The design should show the WLANAccess Points (AP) connectivity to the wired infrastructure. At the existing main office network(across the backbone network), a capacity increase will be required for key devices and theirsupport infrastructure (e.g., Servers, Routers and/or switches) to accommodate the increasedtraffic volume from the newbuildings. Employees are expected to access themain office networkand its resources frequently. So, from the business perspective, it is important that the backbonenetwork connectivity is maintained all the time. Loss of productivity is not an option from thenetwork connectivity point of view. Figure 2 shows the expected number of active users for thetwo new buildings during the business hours. This number of expected active users is useful for
minimum network connections requirements and also to estimate the minimum throughputnetwork design requirements.
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2. Assignment RequirementsSubmissions for this assignment should be in the form of presentation slides (PDF/PPT) and voice-over video presentation and its complete set of slides with explanatory figures and otherrequirements for a professional presentation. The assignment specifications are in the form of arequest for proposal (RFP) to potential suppliers. An RFP is a solicitation often made through abidding process by any company interested in the design and procurement of installation contractservices. This assignment provides an opportunity for you to work individually and apply DataCommunications and Computer Networking concepts to a practical network design. You are requiredto design the network, make networking recommendations based on the RFP requirements andpresent your solutions in a formal presentation.
2.1 The video presentation should contain the following important diagrams to support your
proposal:(a) A conceptual high-level diagram showing a typical floor plan, backbone network(connecting the floors) and a backbone network to connect to the main office.(b) A typical floor plan (only one floor of both the East & West building would be sufficient).(c) Students need to specify the types of Switches, Routers, Access Points, Cables, and showthe Servers, Routers, Switches and Access Point (AP) locations in the design. No addressingand/or routing is required.(d) Traffic throughput calculations for each floor, each building and backbone network.(e) Backbone connection diagrams (using schematic diagrams of cross-section of a buildingshowing switches, routers etc.).(f) Backbone network connectivity for the new buildings connecting with the head officebuilding.
2.2 Students may include some details of the following information in response to the request for
Proposal (RFP) in the Appendix. We ask you to submit your final presentation slides along with
your appendix.(a) Project Requirements: Project requirements can be derived from the Objectives and Scopeof Work section of the RFP. A requirement brief is usually an itemised list of the client’srequirements derived from the RFP.(b) Wired, Wireless LAN and backbone network Design: Wired, Wireless LAN design (for atypical floor) and backbone network design, must include the following information:(i) Computer desktop layout plan with network topology for a typical floor level.(ii) Switch and Wireless Access Point locations on a typical floor, vertical cable pathsand lengths between the floors. Switch and Access Point functional specifications.Assume the floor to ceiling height as 3 metres approximately including the false ceiling.(iii) Router (and/or Switches) locations (both the existing and the new ones) and theirinterconnections providing backbone network connectivity.(c) Design Rules (or Assumptions): You need to outline design rules for LANs, WLANs, and
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Backbone Network. Your description should include:(i) Detailed steps required in the network design process,(ii) Methods used to form estimates of network performance for each type of devices,(iii) An example of a basic sample design showing proposed floor plan, assumptions,justifications, and calculations.(iv) Assumptions of backbone connectivity using wired/wireless media needs to bereported.(d) Recommendations and Justification: A summary of your recommendationswith a statementof justification.
Remark for backbone connectivity building to building: Backbone network, please refer to
Assignment-2-Support Doc slides 22-25 (available on Moodle).
Proposed structure of presentation slides:
● Title page
● A Brief Summary of Problem Definition
● Important Information and Diagram listed in 2.1.
● Conclusions and Recommendations
● References (You would usually stop here in your recorded video)
● Appendix (This may contain additional information listed in 2.2)
Sources and referencingAny claims or recommendations that you make should be substantiated with supporting references.That means that you cannot just claim that A is better than B, you have to argue why that is the caseand point to external sources that can serve as evidence. You can use the unit’s recommendedtextbooks and other standard literature as sources, but you will also need to use additionaldocumentation to find all the technical information and commercial details for this report. Wheneveryou use material from an external source, make sure that you reference that source. You also need toassess the quality and reliability of any source. An independent expert review of differenttechnologies is muchmore trustworthy. References should be listed correctly (see conference papersor journal for the reference). You may lose marks for poor referencing.
ChatGPT referencing:
Generative AI tools are not restricted for this assessment task, ChatGPT use and referencing:
In this assessment, you can use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to assist you in any way.
Acknowledging the use of generative artificial intelligence, If you use ChatGPT, then you need to
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acknowledge the use of ChatGPT to generate materials that may have been used
in some form or the other and included within this assessment in a modified form (see Learn HQ)
Example Acknowledgement would be: “I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT to refine the academic language and accuracy of my own work.On x September 2023 I submitted my Assignment-2 (link to google document here) with theinstruction to “Improve the academic tone and accuracy of network design, technical detailsetc.. language, including grammatical structures, punctuation, and vocabulary”. The output(here) was then modified further to better represent my own tone and style of writing. “