Under doctor's orders for more bed rest, Jan received authorization from her employer to work from home during and immediately after her pregnancy. However, to do her job effectively, she routinely needs to retrieve large -

Introduction

In this assessment you are required to explore the given case study and provide a solution, employing the latest wireless communication techniques. The solution needs to be presented in a report and a short video presentation discussing findings and the proposed solution. The assessment will help in developing an understanding of communication in wireless networks and the limitations and challenges.

Case Study: Home office

Under doctor’s orders for more bed rest, Jan received authorization from her employer to work from home during and immediately after her pregnancy. However, to do her job effectively, she routinely needs to retrieve large files from the corporate local area network (LAN), modify them, and return them to another location on the LAN. She also occasionally likes to print something for convenience or record keeping, and she needs convenient access to a telephone. Jan has received instructions from her company’s Information Technology (IT) staff regarding how to connect to the corporate LAN.

Jan currently has broadband access to her home. However, the only access is to a PC in a family room in the home’s finished basement. Jan’s family uses this PC for Internet access, online gaming, and as a resource for school projects. The PC is connected to a colour printer. Jan wants to create a home office in an unused upstairs bedroom. During the later stages of her pregnancy, she wants the convenience of working from more comfortable locations, such as her couch or bed. She already has a cordless phone and is planning to purchase a laptop PC and perhaps a second printer. However, a quick call to her broadband provider has caused her to question the financial feasibility of running new wiring for broadband access in other locations of her home. Perplexed with her problem, Jan talks to some of her co-workers, and one of them mentions wireless. Jan does a little investigation of the wireless LAN products available and decides many of the products are within her budget.

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The scope of Jan’s solution will be limited by the fact that she already has broadband access installed in her home. She also has instructions for connecting to the corporate LAN. However, she has not checked to see if the wireless home network will affect these instructions. Jan’s challenge is that she needs reliable high-speed access to the corporate LAN from the new home office and other convenient locations in the house. She wants to interfere as little as possible with use of the PC in the family room, and she needs her laptop to be inaccessible from the family PC. She would like to have printing capability in the home office. However, her solution must fit within a limited budget. Finally, all equipment that she uses for her solution must be immediately available.

Figure 1. Jan’s Site

The proposed solution must consider the following requirements:

Any locations where she wants to use the laptop should not be more than 100 meters (over 300 feet) away from the access point
Interference which may be caused by the cordless phone and microwave
The home network should be cost efficient
The network needs to be secure
Other users on the home network

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Submission Instructions

All submissions are to be submitted through Turnitin. Drop-boxes linked to Turnitin will be set up in Moodle. Assessments not submitted through these drop-boxes will not be considered. Submissions must be made by the end of session 5 Sunday 11:55PM.

The Turnitin similarity score will be used in determine any plagiarism of your submitted assessment. Turnitin will check conference web-sites, Journal articles, online resources and your peer’s submissions for plagiarism. You can see your Turnitin similarity score when you submit your assessments to the appropriate drop-box. If your similarity score is of concern you will have a chance to change your assessment and resubmit. However, re-submission is only allowed prior to the submission due date and time. After the due date and time have elapsed you cannot make re-submissions.

Please Note: All work is due by the due date and time. Late submissions will be penalized at the rate of 10% of the assessment final grade per day including weekends.

Marking Guide: 50 Marks

Task

Description

Marks

Report Layout

The report style, language and structure should be appropriate.

Introduction

This section should include a few sentences which provide an outline of the assessment.

Elaborate

Elaborate the importance of the home office and discuss how the proposed solution meets requirements

of the home office.

Design

Update the site design to include all the new hardware required for the secured home network. The site

design can be modified, or you could create a new design based on the existing site, any tool could be used

to provide the design.

Critical Analysis

The students are required to critically analyse, the communication channels and transmission techniques

used by the wireless devices, and the limitations of the proposed wireless devices.

Presentation

The students are required to submit a 5-minute video presentation, discussing their proposed solution.

The video presentation should not have more than 10 slides.

Conclusion

Summary of the report

References

Follow the IEEE style

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Marking criteria/Rubric

You will be assessed on the following marking criteria/Rubric:

Assessment criteria

Exceptional >=80%

Admirable 70% – 79%

Creditable 60% – 69%

Acceptable 50% – 59%

Unsatisfactory <=49 C1. Report Layout Extremely well Well-structured and Structured and Structured and Choppy and 5 points structured and organized report; use of organised report; use organised report; use confusing; format was organized report; use of professional language; of language is of language could be difficult to follow; professional language appropriate improved language needs to be proofread plenty of errors C2. Introduction The introduction is well The introduction The introduction The introduction The introduction does 5 points rounded and provides a provides a brief provides a brief could relate more to not relate to the brief description of the description of the description of the the assessment assessment and does assessment; the assessment; the assessment; the not set the flow for introduction sets an introduction sets a introduction sets the the assessment excellent flow for the good flow for the flow for the report report report C3. Elaborate The section The importance of the The section The section briefly The importance of the 5 points demonstrates the home offices is demonstrated the describes the home office is hardly importance of the demonstrated well; the importance of the importance of a home explained; little home office extremely section provides a good home office; the office and provides discussion of how the well; the section explanation of how the section provides an some explanation of proposal meets the provides an excellent proposal meets the explanation of how how the proposal requirements explanation of how the requirements the proposal meets meets the proposal meets the the requirement requirement requirements 8 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 C4. Design An updated site design An updated site design An updated site An updated site A brief site design has 10 points has been presented has been presented design has been design has been been presented; the using an industry tool; using an industry tool; presented using an presented; the design design does not meet the design does a great the design does a good industry tool; the addresses some of the requirements and job in addressing the job in addressing the design addresses the requirements does not address the requirements; the requirements; the requirements; the security home office design home office design home office design provides a good provides a security provides a security security solution design design C5. Critical Analysis Provided an excellent Provided a good critical The critical analysis The critical analysis The critical analysis 10 points critical analysis with analysis with focus on focused on the focused on the lacks depth and detail; focus on the the communication communication communication the critical analysis communication channels and channels and channels and did not cover the channels and transmission transmission transmission limitations of the transmission techniques used by techniques used by techniques used by proposed wireless techniques used by wireless devices; an wireless devices; the wireless devices devices wireless devices; a well- assessment of the limitations of rounded assessment of limitation of the proposed wireless the limitation of the proposed wireless devices was proposed wireless devices somewhat discussed devices C4. Presentation Presentation is Most information Most information Structure of Presentation is 5 points structured with clear presented in logical presented in logical presentation was hard choppy and beginning, middle and sequence; generally, sequence; generally, to follow with main disjointed; does not end; Main points were very well organized but organized but better ideas loosely flow; Presentation easy to follow and better transitions might transitions might connected; ended without a logical; speaker have been given; have been given; insufficient material conclusion or engaged audience, Material was well Material was suited presented to support summary of key material presented was suited to length of to length of main ideas. points. suited to length of presentation with presentation with Conclusion unclear. presentation with clear summary of main summary of main summarization of main points provided. points provided. points. 9 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 C7. Conclusion Provided an excellent Provided a good Provided a summary Provided a summary The conclusions failed 5 points summary of the summary of the of the assessment; of the assessment. to summarise the assessment; covering assessment; covering somewhat covered assessment all aspects of the most aspects of the the aspects of the assessment assessment assessment C8. References The references The references Most references Most references The references did 5 points followed IEEE Style; the followed IEEE Style; followed IEEE Style; followed IEEE Style; not follow IEEE Style references were cited most the references some of the the references were and were not cited and complete were cited and references were cited not cited and incomplete complete and complete 10 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Assessment 2: Research Report Overview Weight Length Due date ULO 10% 1000-1500 Session 9 Sunday 11:55 PM ULO1 and ULO4 Introduction In this assessment students are required to research on an article in the area of wireless communication. The research needs to be geared towards the transmission fundamentals with focus on the wireless channels, analysing the performance of wireless networks. The assessment is aimed to improve the student’s investigation and analysis skills. Task In this assessment you are required to prepare a 2-page abstract in IEEE Style, use the template provided on the LMS. To prepare the abstract you need to select an article published in 2015 and later. The selected article needs to include wireless transmission fundamentals. The article needs to be on one of the areas given below. 4G and 5G cellular systems Ad hoc wireless networks Adaptive antennas for wireless systems AI Powered Wireless Communications Channel estimation Computation and Data Driven Wireless Communications Heterogeneous cellular networks Next generation WiFi Massive MIMO Propagation and channel characterization The report must follow the template provided on the LMS. Please note that citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the IEEE style. 11 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Submission Instructions All submissions are to be submitted through Turnitin. Drop-boxes linked to Turnitin will be set up in Moodle. Assessments not submitted through these drop-boxes will not be considered. Submissions must be made by the end of session 9 Sunday 11:55PM. The Turnitin similarity score will be used in determine any plagiarism of your submitted assessment. Turnitin will check conference websites, Journal articles, online resources and your peer’s submissions for plagiarism. You can see your Turnitin similarity score when you submit your assessments to the appropriate drop-box. If your similarity score is of concern you will have a chance to change your assessment and resubmit. However, re-submission is only allowed prior to the submission due date and time. After the due date and time have elapsed you cannot make re-submissions. Please Note: All work is due by the due date and time. Late submissions will be penalized at the rate of 10% of the assessment final grade per day including weekends. Marking Guide: 50 Marks Task Description Marks Report Layout The report layout, language and structure should be appropriate. The report should follow the template provided on 5 the LMS and should be 2 pages. Abstract Include the step-by-step explanation of configuration and the related protocols and technologies 5 Introduction This section should provide an outline of the assessment and the following sections. 5 Literature Review You should perform a literature survey on the selected article. The literature survey should include at least 5 research 15 papers, published no later than 2015. Evaluate Based on the available literature, identify and evaluate the performance of wireless communication networks. 10 Conclusion Summary of the report. 5 References Follow the IEEE Style 5 12 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Marking criteria/Rubric You will be assessed on the following marking criteria/Rubric: Assessment criteria Exceptional >=80%

Admirable 70% – 79%

Creditable 60% – 69%

Acceptable 50% – 59%

Unsatisfactory <=49% C1. Report Layout Extremely well Well-structured and Structured and Structured and Choppy and confusing; 5 points structured and organized report; use organised report; use organised report; use format was organized report; use of of professional of language is of language could be difficult to follow; professional language; language; report appropriate; template improved; template language needs to be report template has template has been has been followed has been followed proofread plenty of been followed followed partially errors; template has not been used C2. Abstract The abstract provides The abstract provides The abstract provides The abstract provides The abstract is vague 5 points an insight of the article; an insight of the an insight of the an insight of the and difficult to follow; the abstract is crisp; article; the abstract is article; written well article the abstract is not written extremely well crisp; written very well written well at all C3. Introduction The introduction is well The introduction The introduction The introduction could The introduction does 5 points rounded and provides a provides a brief provides a brief relate more to the not relate to the brief description of the description of the description of the assessment assessment and does assessment; the assessment; the assessment; the not set the flow for the introduction sets an introduction sets a introduction sets the assessment excellent flow for the good flow for the flow for the report report report C4. Literature Review The literature review The literature review The literature review The literature review The literature review 15 points provides an in depth provides an in depth provides an in depth provides an analysis of lacks depth and detail; analysis of 5 published analysis of 5 published analysis of the the published the literature review articles/conference articles/conference published literature in literature fails to provide a papers in the area; the papers in the area; the the area; the literature critique literature review is literature review is provides an insight of extremely well written well written and the area 13 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 and provides a clear provides a clear insight of the area insight of the area C4. Evaluate The section provides an The section provides a The section provides a An evaluation of the The evaluation of the 10 points excellent evaluation of good evaluation of the good evaluation of the performance is performance has not the performance; a performance; a good performance; an somewhat provided been carried out; very well-rounded evaluation against the evaluation against the little analysis is evaluation against the existing techniques existing techniques provided existing techniques C4. Conclusion Provided an excellent Provided a good Provided a summary Provided a summary The conclusions failed 5 points summary of the summary of the of the assessment; of the assessment. to summarise the assessment; covering assessment; covering somewhat covered assessment all aspects of the most aspects of the the aspects of the assessment assessment assessment C4. References The references The references Most references Most references The references did not 5 points followed IEEE Style; the followed IEEE Style; followed IEEE Style; followed IEEE Style; follow IEEE Style and references were cited most the references some of the the references were were not cited and and complete were cited and references were cited not cited incomplete complete and complete 14 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Assessment 3: Major Assignment Overview Weight Length Due date ULO 30% 2500 Words Session 12 Sunday 11:55 PM ULO1-ULO4 Introduction In this assessment the students are required to plan and design a wireless enterprise network for a hospital. To design the enterprise network, you are required to perform requirement analysis, understand the site, including the infrastructure and any line of sight issues. Since the buildings are medical in nature, you must take special care when deploying wireless communications. Medical equipment may be sensitive to wireless devices and channels. You must pay special attention to limiting radio frequencies in and around the emergency room area to avoid any interference Task The IS manager from Jones Hospital has hired you as a consultant to provide a wireless LAN solution for their hospital network. The hospital employs just over 800 employees, working in a complex composed of seven buildings in an urban area. All the buildings are close enough in proximity that employees frequently walk between buildings. The management staff wants to deploy wireless technology in their enterprise network. They have heard that this type of network will save them money as opposed to the current leased line network. They believe that the added mobility will also dramatically increase productivity. Since the staff moves from building to building, it seems to be the right idea to provide them with computer equipment and data that will roam with them. The area that the hospital buildings cover is shown in the Figure 2. 15 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Figure 2. Hospital Buildings The assessment requires you to plan and design a wireless network for the hospital using any industry tool of your choice. Citation of sources is mandatory and must be in the IEEE style. Submission Instructions All submissions are to be submitted through Turnitin. Drop-boxes linked to Turnitin will be set up in Moodle. Assessments not submitted through these drop-boxes will not be considered. Submissions must be made by the end of session 12 Sunday 11:55PM. The Turnitin similarity score will be used in determine any plagiarism of your submitted assessment. Turnitin will check conference web-sites, Journal articles, online resources and your peer’s submissions for plagiarism. You can see your Turnitin similarity score when you submit your assessments to the appropriate drop-box. If your similarity score is of concern you will have a chance to change your assessment and resubmit. However, re-submission is only allowed prior to the submission due date and time. After the due date and time have elapsed you cannot make re-submissions. Please Note: All work is due by the due date and time. Late submissions will be penalized at the rate of 10% of the assessment final grade per day including weekends. 16 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Marking Guide: 100 Marks Task Description Marks Report Layout The report style, language and structure should be appropriate. 5 Introduction This section should include a few sentences which provide an outline of the assessment. 5 Requirement Analysis Analyse and discuss requirements of the hospital, including the functional and non-functional 15 requirements of the wireless enterprise network. A comprehensive network design needs to be provided, covering all the buildings and open areas 20 Network Design of the hospital. The network design needs to include all the networking devices, equipment and connections. The network is required to be designed in any industry tool. The students are required to provide a critical analysis of the design of the network, the analysis 10 Critical Analysis should be in depth and detailed. The critical analysis should provide reasoning for the selection of the network devices and the design. Constraint and Limitations The constraints and limitations of the enterprise network need to be discussed. A workaround 10 needs to be discussed and the effect of the constraints and limitations need to be explored. Conclusion Conclude with your opinion about the results. 5 References Follow the IEEE style 5 17 Victorian Institute of Technology www.vit.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 02044E, RTO No: 20829 Marking criteria/Rubric You will be assessed on the following marking criteria/Rubric: Assessment criteria Exceptional >=80%

Admirable 70% – 79%

Creditable 60% – 69%

Acceptable 50% – 59%

Unsatisfactory <=49%

C1. Report Layout

Extremely well structured

Well-structured and

Structured and

Choppy and confusing;

5 points

and organized report; use

organized report; use of

organised report; use

format was

of professional language;

professional language;

of language is

of language could be

difficult to follow;

report template has been

report template has

appropriate; template

improved; template

language needs to be

followed

been followed

has been followed

proofread plenty of

partially

errors; template has

not been used

C2. Introduction

The introduction is well

The introduction

The introduction could

The introduction does

5 points

rounded and provides a

provides a brief

relate more to the

not relate to the

brief description of the

description of the

assessment

assessment and does

assessment; the

not set the flow for the

introduction sets an

introduction sets a good

introduction sets the

assessment

excellent flow for the

flow for the report

report

C3. Requirement

The requirement analysis

The requirement

A requirement

A requirement analysis

Analysis

is in depth and detailed;

analysis is in depth and

analysis is provided;

analysis has been

has not been carried

15 points

all requirements of the

detailed; most

most requirements of

carried out; some

out; briefly discussed

hospital have been

requirements of the

the hospital have been

functional and non-

the requirements

considered; the

hospital have been

considered; the

functional

functional and non-

considered; the

functional and non-

requirements

functional requirements

functional and non-

functional

discussed

explained extremely well.

functional requirements

requirements are

explained well.

explained.

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C3. Network Design

The network design

The network is

The network is not

20 points

covers all areas of the

covers most areas of

designed with an

hospital; the network

the hospital; the

industry tool and

industry tool;

design is clear and easy to

design is clear; the

network is well

covers most areas of

The network design

understand; the network

network is well

designed with an

the network

seems incomplete and

is extremely well

designed with an

industry tool

does not cover all

designed with an industry

industry tool

areas

tool

C4. Critical Analysis

Provided an excellent

Provided a good critical

Provided a reasonable

The critical analysis

10 points

critical analysis with focus

analysis with focus of

critical analysis with

focused on the design

lacks depth and detail;

of the design of the

the design of the

focus of the design of

of the network;

the critical analysis did

network; the critical

the network; the

somewhat reasoning

not cover the

analysis provided great

analysis provided

critical analysis

provided

limitations of the

reasoning for the

reasonable reasoning

provided reasonable

proposed wireless

selection of the

for the selection of the

reasoning for the

devices

networking devices and

selection of the

the design

networking devices

and the design

C4. Constraints and

The constraints and

An explanation of the

The constraints and

Limitations

limitations explained

constraints and

limitations are hardly

10 points

extremely well; a

very well; a workaround

limitations is provided;

explained, a

workaround the

the constraints and

a workaround the

a brief workaround

workaround not

constraints and

limitations are

constraints and

discussed

discussed; the effects

limitations are provided;

provided; the effect of

limitations are

have not been

the effect of the

the constraints and

provided; the effect of

highlighted

constraints and

limitations discussed

the constraints and

limitations discussed

C5. Conclusion

Provided an excellent

Provided a good

Provided a summary

The conclusions failed

5 points

summary of the

of the assessment;

of the assessment.

to summarise the

assessment; covering all

assessment; covering

somewhat covered

assessment

aspects of the assessment

most aspects of the

the aspects of the

assessment

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C6. References

The references followed

Most references

The references did not

5 points

IEEE Style; the references

IEEE Style; most the

followed IEEE Style;

follow IEEE Style and

were cited and complete

references were cited

some of the

the references were

were not cited and

and complete

references were cited

not cited

incomplete

and complete