EE 607 Spring 2006
Final Project
Last Updated: April
30, 2006
Instructions:
Pick a distinct topic to give a written report on as well as an
oral presentation. The topic will focus on topic from a paper (or
papers)
from the Sigcomm 2005
conference (papers can be found here) and
the IEEE 2005 Infocom Conference (You can search for IEEE papers by
going to the UH Library web site. There's an IEEE web site for
its papers called Xplorer).
You may choose any paper or even propose a paper (and topic) from
outside the conference. For example, if you are currently doing
research with a faculty advisor then you may choose a topic on your
research (however, please get my approval). You can focus your
report on the results of a single paper but, you should read at least
three research papers. Note that some of the papers can be papers
referenced in the Sigcomm papers but published in other sources such as
the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas
on Communications, Proceedings of the Sigcomm Conference in earlier
years, and the Proceedings of IEEE Infocom Conference.
Written Report:
Turn in a written report that is due Wed, during finals week at
4pm. It
will be between 12-15 pages in length including figures. Your
report should have
the following items though you could organize it differently.
- Introduction Section. This explains the problem,
motivation.
- Background Section.
Survey of existing work and the models that are assumed.
- Results Section. State the results here. Include any new
results of your own. Sometimes you can get new results by trying
different parameters and then working through their techniques. You may
look at special cases (maybe extreme cases) where getting results are
simpler.
- Discussion Section. Write your opinions about the
results. Include any ideas about future research.
- Conclusions (or Summary) Section. This should have your
final thoughts, wrapping up the report.
The report should be formatted as follows:
- Margins and Spacing: The document should be prepared for
8.5x11 inch paper and maintain the following margins: text width 6.5
inches with 1.25 inch left margin and 1.00 inch right margin, and text
height 9.75 inches with 0.5 inch top margin and 0.75 inch bottom
margin. Fonts should be Times-Roman or comparable style. Use font size
of 12 points, except for the title which can be between 12 and 18
point. Text should be double spaced.
- Title and Stuff: The document should start with a title at
the top of the first page and left justified. An example title would be
"Scheduling Algorithms in IP Routers". Three lines below the title,
should be the author's name. Two lines below that will be the date when
the document was prepared. Two lines below the date will be the
beginning of the rest of the report, which should be the Introduction
section.
- Sections: The rest of the report should be organized into
sections with possible subsections. Note that any technical document
should be composed of an introduction, followed by the body, and then
the conclusions. The introduction and conclusions should have their own
section. The body is one or more sections. Each section and subsection
should have a number and title. The Introduction and conclusions
sections are typically titled "Introduction" and "Conclusions,"
respectively. The numbers for sections are 1, 2, ... Thus, the
Introduction is section 1 and its title should be "1 Introduction".
Subsections have numbers too so that the numbers of the subsections of
Section X should be X.1, X.2, ....
- References: After the Conclusions section, there should be
a list of references. The list should have a title "References".
Properly reference everything (you may also reference the lab handout).
Use the IEEE Style of referencing. Check any IEEE journal such as the
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking for examples.
- Figures and Tables: Have figures and tables centered and
within the margins of the document. They should be clear and labeled.
They should be numbered and have captions. They should be placed after
their first reference in the text.
- Technical Terms. Italicize and define unfamiliar technical
terms. This helps to make the document user-friendly.
Oral Presentation:
You will give an oral presentation during the week before finals.
Each
presentation will be 24 minutes. You should have
powerpoint
slides. We will schedule a final time and date later but likely
dates are the thursday or friday before finals. More details
about the format of the presentation will be given later.
May 5, Friday
EE Conference Room, Holmes Hall 484
May 11, Thursday
EE Conference Room, Holmes Hall 484