KINGSTON UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING AND COMPUTING

SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

CI7150: WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS & NETWORKS

COURSEWORK
2019-2020

Write a tutorial paper of between 3000 and 4000 words on a topic that either
extends what presented in the lecture course or on a topic that is within the scope of
wireless communications and networks but not covered in the lecture course (feel
free to check with me if you are unsure about your topic).

Based on the topic you have selected, in the evaluation section of the paper you
need to provide some simple simulation results and analysis using any of the Matlab
/ NS2 or 3 or Packet Tracer or other related simulators, open source or proprietary.
Your selection should be unique to you by using the arithmetic part of your KU
number for setting up your simulations, e.g. fundamental frequency or distance.
Furthermore, it should include the following steps:

- provide a scenario, e.g. rural environment.
- design the network, e.g. give number of application servers, base stations, routers
and end users.
- evaluate the performance of the selected algorithm or protocol, e.g. scheduler,
mobility management protocol, resource management algorithms etc, in terms of
throughput, delay, jitter or any other evaluation metric/statistic you feel is relevant
to your design and scenario.
- build a system/network analysis based on these simulation results and finally
- provide recommendations and comments on your results.

The paper should be presented in a form suitable for professional journal publication
with two columns of 12 point text with headings of 14 bold point text and should be
consistent with the following guidelines.

Title of Paper in 16 bold point characters
Name of author
Abstract
Introduction
Section headings
Evaluations
Conclusion
References

Note the need to cite all references within the main body of the text using either the
number system or the name date system. As a sample paper and for guidance, you
may use this publication: http://www.springerlink.com/content/x5jg315834423k2t/

Marks will be awarded according to the following criteria:


Writing style, presentation, grammar 20%
Logical flow 10%
Technical content 40%
Performance evaluations
& degree of difficulty 30%


Submit your report via Turnitin.

File name: Knumber_Title (The title should include the name of the system/network
selected for simulation)

For anonymous marking, please include only your Knumber in the assignment.


Submission deadline: 12th January 2020


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Prof Christos Politis
October 2019