Introduction to Network Engineering – UG (11485)Final Individual Project – Semester 1 2021Due to the COVID-19 epidemy, with so many working and studying remotely, the Internet’s capacity is underconsiderable strain. Unfortunately, this has put a huge load on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and we can onlyexpect the situation to worsen with time. The latest statistics indicate that the throughput in the network duringdaytime business hours has seen a surge of over 102 percent as compared to the usage in last week of February.While ISPs are coming up with short-term solutions to provide as much capacity as possible, a more permanentsolution is required to cater Internet’s future growth and demands. Therefore, as a permanent solution for thecapacity problem, researchers are investigating possible reengineering/redesigning of the traditional TCP/IPprotocol suite.TCP/IP was originally designed for wide area network, even though it has been used in local area network mostly,it’s not optimised for it. For example, though CRC is used for checksum, TCP still uses in-packet checksum for endto-end reliability, which is an overhead considering that computing the checksum is expensive and resourceintensive, leading to a bottleneck in the network.Note: A high level definition for Network capacity is the amount of traffic that a network can handle at any giventime. A more detailed and through definition can be found from the link: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5136Task : Your task is to propose a fix/solution to the TCP/IP protocol suite to help the Internet overcomeits capacity bottleneck/s. For example, you may focus on fixing a specific problem at a particular layer of theprotocol stack or improving a known deficiency of a protocol or propose a completely novel method to improvenetwork capacity based on the knowledge you have gained from the unit. You have complete freedom to designa solution to improve the capacity of the Internet. Remember, less is more: simple solutions are the best solutions.Method : You must familiarize yourself with the current literature published under the above topic.Therefore, you must first perform a literature survey. Publications can be accessed via UC Library’s A-Z Databases.A recommended database for this task is IEEE Xplore. If you have difficulties in remotely accessing the UC Librarydatabases, please contact the library and they will be able to help you. If you are unable to access UC Librarydatabases as recommended, Google Scholar may be an alternative option. However, not all documents fromGoogle Scholar can be considered as peer-reviewed publications from legitimate sources. Next, you may proceedwith the designing of your novel architecture.Format : The final report must be prepared according to the guidelines of the attached template. It musthave an approximate word count 2000-3000 (excluding references) and reference up to 8-10 peer-reviewedpublications (preferably from 2010 onwards). IEEE referencing format must be followed.Due : Friday, 30 April 2021 (Week 12)UG Final Project Report TemplateGiven Name SurnameName of Organization/AffiliationCity, Countryemail addressAbstract— The abstract section is a concise digest of thecontent of the paper. An abstract is more than a summary. Asummary is a brief restatement of preceding text that is intendedto orient a reader who has studied the preceding text. Anabstract is intended to be self-explanatory without reference tothe paper, but is not a substitute for the paper. The abstractshould present, the purpose of the paper, general materials andmethods, summarized results, and the major conclusions. (WordCount: 250)I. INTRODUCTION (500 WORDS)It should give readers enough information to appreciateyour specific objectives within a larger theoretical framework.A helpful strategy in this section is to go from the general,theoretical framework to your specific question. Remember topresent only the most relevant ideas and get quickly to thepoint of the paper. After placing your work in a broadercontext, you should state the specific question(s) to beanswered.II. LITERATURE REVIEW (750 WORDS)This section may include background information aboutthe problem such as a summary of any research that has beendone on the problem in the past and how the presentexperiment will help to clarify or expand the knowledge in thisgeneral area. All background information gathered from otherpublished sources must, of course, be appropriately cited inIEEE referencing format.III. DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY (750 WORDS)The author describes the proposed solution to the problemidentified in the Introduction. You must clearly state theoriginality of your proposal and what novel contributions yourdesign brings to the body of knowledge. The author describesthe architectural design, the apparatus, methods of gatheringdata and type of control. The general rule to remember is thatthe Materials and Methods section should be detailed and clearenough so that any reader knowledgeable in basic scientifictechniques could duplicate the study if she/he wished to do so.IV. DISCUSSION (500 WORDS)If available, here the researcher presents summarized datafor inspection using narrative text and, where appropriate,tables and figures to display summarized data. You mustclearly put forward a discussion to justify the originality ofyour proposal and how it solves the identified problem. Nextdiscuss how your solution is superior than the state-of- the-artby benchmarking it against at least two other similar publishedworks. Finally, clearly state your contributions to the body ofknowledge. A useful strategy in discussing your proposedsolution is to relate your specific results back to the broadtheoretical context presented in the Introduction. Since yourIntroduction went from the general to a specific question,going from the specific back to the general will help to tie yourideas and arguments together.V. CONCLUSIONS (250 WORDS)This section simply states what the author thinks thesolution mean, and, as such, should relate directly back to theproblem/question stated in the introduction. By looking atonly the Introduction and Conclusions sections, a readershould have a good idea of what the researcher hasinvestigated and discovered even though the specific detailsof how the work was done would not be known.REFERENCES (NO WORD LIMIT)You need to reference at least 8 – 10 peer-reviewedpublications. These can be accessed via UC library’s A-ZDatabases. A recommended database for this assignment isIEEE Xplore. If you have difficulties in remotely accessingthe UC Library databases, please contact the library and theywill be able to help you. If you are unable to access UC Librarydatabases as recommended, Google Scholar may be analternative option. However, not all documents from GoogleScholar can be considered as peer-reviewed publications fromlegitimate sources.The references section is excluded from the page countand follow the IEEE format. The template will numbercitations consecutively within brackets [1]. The sentencepunctuation follows the bracket [2]. Refer simply to thereference number, as in [3]—do not use “Ref. [3]” or“reference [3]” except at the beginning of a sentence:“Reference [3] was the first …” Unless there are six authors ormore give all authors’ names; do not use “et al.”. Papers thathave not been published, even if they have been submitted forpublication, should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers thathave been accepted for publication should be cited as “inpress” [5]. Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, exceptfor proper nouns and element symbols.[1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals ofLipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.(references)[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.[3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchangeanisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds. NewYork: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.[4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. NameStand. Abbrev., in press.[6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron spectroscopystudies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate interface,” IEEETransl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August 1987 [Digests 9thAnnual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].[7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:University Science, 1989.VI. ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONA. Formatting InstructionsThe template is used to format your paper and style thetext. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fontsare prescribed; please do not alter them. You may notepeculiarities. For example, the head margin in this templatemeasures proportionately more than is customary. Thismeasurement and others are deliberate, using specificationsthat anticipate your paper as one part of the entire proceedings,and not as an independent document. Please do not revise anyof the current designations.B. Abbreviations and AcronymsDefine abbreviations and acronyms the first time they areused in the text, even after they have been defined in theabstract. Do not use abbreviations in the title or heads unlessthey are unavoidable. An excellent style manual for sciencewriters is [7].C. Identify the HeadingsHeadings, or heads, are organizational devices that guidethe reader through your paper. There are two types:component heads and text heads.Component heads identify the different components ofyour paper and are not topically subordinate to each other. Use“figure caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” foryour table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will requireyou to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the styleprovided by the drop down menu to differentiate the headfrom the text.Text heads organize the topics on a relational, hierarchicalbasis. For example, the paper title is the primary text headbecause all subsequent material relates and elaborates on thisone topic.D. Figures and Tablesa) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures andtables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing themin the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may spanacross both columns. Figure captions should be below thefigures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insertfigures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use theabbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence.TABLE I. TableHeadTable Column HeadTable column subheadSubheadSubheadcopyMore table copya a. Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figurelabels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations whenwriting Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As anexample, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in thelabel, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes onlywith units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” or“Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label axeswith a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K.”Final Exam Marking Rubric CRITERIA/ GRADEFail< 50%Pass50-64%Credit65-74%Distinction75-84%High Distinction85% +ORIGINALITY &PERSONALCONTRIBUTION__ / 10%Work does notmeet TheUniversity’sAcademic BoardPolicyThe work is the students ownPlaces new results in a credibleresearch contextMakes a valuable contribution tothe topicShows an original understandingwhich interests the wider engineeringcommunity; suggests new directionsfor further research/designdevelopmentCOMMAND OF SUBJECT__ / 10%Does not linktheory to researchDescribes and uses theory to informresearch/design question; uses setreadings to develop topicDemonstrates understanding oftopic; uses models to informresearch/design aimCompares and contrasts severaltheories; reveals strengths andweaknesses of complextheoretical modelsCritically analyses competingtheoretical models; use the literaturereview to demonstrate theoreticalinsightsINTRODUCTION__ / 5%Is absent or ispoorly structuredor lacks essentialelementsContains a structure; describesresearch/design project generallyMakes specific statements aboutthe research/design field;introduces key authors; links aimto existing research/design workAnalyses literature to indicate gapin existing research/design work;outlines scope of the study andprovides some rationale for theresearch/design projectProvides sound rationale for theresearch/design project;contextualizes project aim; wellstructured and sequencedLITERATURE REVIEW__ / 15%Is too short; lacksdetail andanalysis; does notcite important workReports the literature; quotesparaphrases and summarizesappropriately; shows a competentgrasp of key issuesHas a clear structure and groupsliterature into themes relevant tothe research/design topic; makesa clear link to own projectProvides a comprehensive andanalytical examination of topic;makes links with research/designmethodology; demonstrates soundunderstanding of key issuesCritically analyses literature; uses thereview to create a rationale for thewhole thesis; demonstrates ascholarly grasp of the literature;appraises the relevant literatureDESIGN/METHODOLOGY__ / 25%Uses inappropriateresearch/designmethods; lacks astructure orargumentDescribes research/design methodsand materials used so that theycould be repeated; methods show astructure and might yieldappropriate dataDraws on published research toprovide a rationale forresearch/design methods; linksmethods and results sectionslogicallyDerives methods from an analysisof strengths and weaknesses ofexisting research/design work;provides sound rationale forresearch/design projectUses innovative methods; discussesmethodology limitationsDISCUSSION /CONCLUSION__ / 25%Cannotreasonably explainresultsMakes links to results with basicreasoning; states some usefulnessof own researchSubstantiates research/designclaims with references; comparesand explains (un) expected resultswith published results; suggestsfurther work related to topicClearly interprets results; links to atheoretical understanding from theliterature; anticipates criticism;identifies limitations to study andhow they might be resolvedUses results to critically interpret thetheory/research supporting the study;explains how results advance thefield; reveals an originalunderstanding of own workPRESENTATION FORMAT& REFERENCES__ / 10%Writing does notclearlycommunicatemessageWrites well; contains sections andsubsections and a contents page;correctly employs departmentalformatting and referencing guidesWrites in a consistently clear stylewithout grammatical errorsWrites analytically; brings togetherall sections into a cohesivedocumentUses the resources of writtencommunication similar to a publishedresearch paper.
