FIT9137 Assignment 2 - Presentation
2) from supporting and reference documentations.
are strongly discouraged as this will be picked up by Turnitin and would increase your similarity scores. Any similarity score > 20% would trigger our attention and we will have to investigate it officially. You will have a chance to see the Turnitin report when you upload a submission (even in draft mode). We recommend you to check the Turnitin report before finalising your submission.
● Please be aware your assignments will be checked through and assessed by Turnitin and you should avoid the above two important points. Also, any text must be phrased in your own words and to your best understanding.
● Please note that the requirements for this Assignment are different from those that may be given as supporting documents in Moodle. Your knowledge and understanding should be for the assessment tasks requirements here. Any supporting documentation you refer to would only be a guidance and cannot be copied verbatim from those resources.
● Submitted files via one submission link should be of these file formats:
● Presentation slides file: - Firstname_LastName_StudentID.PDF &
● Video Presentation file: - FirstName_LastName.FileType (Video files used on the web .avi .f4v .flv .fmp4 .m4v .mov .mp4 .mpe .mpeg .mpg .ogv .qt .ts .webm)
● Note that during your assignment submission, you may see a warning for your video file stating something of the form “This file will not be submitted to Turnitin…”. This is completely fine, and you can simply ignore this message. The video file will NOT be submitted to Turnitin; only the slides file is submitted.
● The marks breakdown for the Assignment-2 will be 30% for video presentation and 70% 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.
● You can create multiple video parts at different times and combine and submit a single video at 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 or Library. It's your responsibility to plan ahead for this. Monash Connect or Library not having available devices for loan at a particular point in time is not a valid excuse.
Penalties:
• Late submissions will result in a 10% deduction of the total marks per calendar day (up to one week). For example, if you get 80/100 marks originally and submit 2 days late, then you would get 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) and no assessment feedback will be provided.
• If the video recording exceeds the 15.00-minute limit, the parts beyond 15:00 minutes will NOT be marked and will be ignored.
• Speeding up the video recording (e.g., using software) is NOT allowed and such submissions will receive a ZERO mark.Network Design Individual Assignment
Assignment release/marking policy:
• The unit policy is to release the assignment for the student to work for two working semester weeks on the assessment. Hence two complete weeks will be provided for students to work on the Assignment-2. Please note that the markings and feedback will be completed and given after 10 working days. Your total final combined marks for this assignment will be uploaded to the Moodle submission link and will be released only after marking of all students is finalised.
• 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 data transmission.
• The Assignment-2 covers material from Weeks 4-6.
Late submissions and special considerations:
• All extension and special consideration requests are managed centrally. The teaching team cannot directly decide if you can/cannot have a late submission. Your request should be submitted directly to: https://www.monash.edu/students/admin/assessments/extensions-special-consideration
Please make sure to select the correct assignment from the menu provided in the system, and not enter an assignment name manually.
• Without an approved special consideration request, late submission penalties will apply as described above.
Presentation: The presentation should look professional, which means you need to pay attention to spelling, punctuation, grammar, and visualisation. It is important that your presentation has a clear structure. Prepare presentation slides of at least 10 pages/slides* long and a maximum of 15 pages/slides. The presentation should ideally not contain too much text and should use a minimum Network Design Individual Assignment font 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 the page/slide limit of 15 will not be marked. Use FIT standard presentation format.
● 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-drawn maps are acceptable if they are neat and easily readable.● In order to record yourself, we recommend you use Zoom.Monash University – Zoom (https://monash.zoom.us). However, you are free to use any other software as long as the final file submitted to Moodle is understandable and accessible by our teaching team.Network Design Individual Assignment
Reporting: An Enterprise Network Design Report
A Request For Proposal (RFP) to Design Wired LANs,
Wireless LANs and support Backbone Network
Figure 1:A Typical floor plan for structured cabling for LAN and WLAN
The new buildings require structured network wiring for network connections, where each floor has a wiring closet with necessary structured cabling. Each wiring closet requires four fiber optic cables running to a dedicated server room in the basement (same as the ground floor). The new Network Design Individual Assignment buildings 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 the same, 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 laptops would be equipped with office desktop high resolution video conferencing software (VoIP), along with the usual business applications such as web, email, and regular office productivity packages. The average network traffic generated by each active wired network user is estimated to be around 25-30 Mbps, while the WLAN traffic generated for each floor would be 25% of the wired traffic.
The expected user activity pattern for the new buildings may be seen in Figure 2, where the new buildings will accommodate the new staff members equally distributed to each floor of the new buildings. The Wired LAN infrastructure needs to be designed to support the anticipated peak time data traffic, and in addition, support the Wireless LAN. The design should show the WLAN Access 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 their support infrastructure (e.g., Servers, Routers and/or switches) to accommodate the increased traffic volume from the new buildings. Employees are expected to access the main office network and its resources frequently. So, from the business perspective, it is important that the backbone network connectivity is maintained all the time. Loss of productivity is not an option from the network connectivity point of view.
Figure 2: The number of expected active users during the business hours.
Figure 2 also shows the expected number of active users for the two new buildings during the business hours. This number of expected active users is useful for minimum network connections requirements and to estimate the minimum throughput network design requirements.Network Design Individual Assignment
(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 show the Servers, Routers, Switches and Access Point (AP) locations in the design. No addressing and/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 building showing switches, routers etc.).(f) Backbone network connectivity for the new buildings connecting with the head office building.
(a) Project Requirements: Project requirements can be derived from the Objectives and Scope of Work section of the RFP. A requirement brief is usually an itemised list of the client’s requirements derived from the RFP.
(b) Wired, Wireless LAN and backbone network Design: Wired, Wireless LAN design (for a typical 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 paths and 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 their interconnections providing backbone network connectivity.Network Design Individual Assignment
(c) Design Rules (or Assumptions): You need to outline design rules for LANs, WLANs, and 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 be reported.
(d) Recommendations and Justification: A summary of your recommendations with a statement of justification.
[e] Remark for backbone connectivity building to building: Backbone network, please refer to Assignment-2-Support Doc slides 22-25 (available on Moodle).
● Title page● A Brief Summary of Problem Definition● Important Information and Diagram(s) listed in Sections 2.1 and 2.3.● Conclusions and Recommendations● References (You would usually stop here in your recorded video)● Appendix (This may contain additional information listed in Section 2.2)
Example Acknowledgement would be: “I acknowledge the use of ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/) to refine the academic language and accuracy of my own work. On x April 2024 I submitted my Assignment-2 with the instruction to “Improve the academic tone and accuracy of network design, technical details etc.. language, including grammatical structures, punctuation, and vocabulary”. The output (here) was then modified further to better represent my own tone and style of writing. “
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