Introduction

You are required to prepare and present a poster about a research paper that you have read in the area of Computer Networking. You may choose any paper in which you are interested but you must register its publication details with your tutors and have formal agreement that it is suitable before you proceed with the work for the talk.

You may find that this list of papers is useful in choosing and obtaining a suitable paper but you are free to choose a paper from a more recent journal or conference if you wish. Remember that the University library provides electronic access to all ACM journals and conference proceedings. Use NORA to access these resources.

Please register your paper by sending an email to Ahmed Bouridane with the subject line "EN0710 Research Poster". Give the full publication details of the paper and, if possible, a URL to an online version in the message body. You will receive an email to tell you if the paper is acceptable.

This assessment is concerned with the following learning outcomes:

• Understand, apply and critically discuss fundamental principles in managing the complexity of computer networks, in particular layered, service-oriented and protocol-oriented views of network architecture.
• Discuss applications, protocols or algorithms of current interest to the computer network research community.

Content

Your poster should clearly address the following topics.

• What is the main problem considered by the paper?
• Why is this an important problem particularly for Computer Networking currently?
• What other work has been done on this problem and in what respects is it lacking?
• What is the major claim of the paper?
• What methods have been adopted in order to provide evidence for the claim?
• What results are presented in support of the major claim? Are there any other interesting minor results?
• What is your opinion of the paper?
• Summary

Presentations

You will present your talk to an audience comprising the academic staff and other students associated with the module. You will have 5 minutes for the presentation and 2 minutes for questions.

Assessment

You will be assessed on the quality of your poster, your presentation and your response to questions.

This assessment comprises 30% of the total marks for the module. You will be given a mark out of a total of 30 for your work, decomposed as follows:

• Quality of the poster (15)
• Quality of the presentation (10)
• Response to questions (5)

Key dates

• Notification of title to tutors should be made no later than 23.59 on Mon 27th February 2012.
• Posters will be presented in the sessions during the week commencing 23rd April 2012. A detailed timetable will be published in due course. You must attend to deliver your presentation in the advertised session. You should arrive promptly at the beginning of the session and stay until the end of the session, participating in questions for the other presenters when appropriate. It is not essential to produce a hardcopy of your poster, an electronic poster is acceptable. If you decide to display your poster electronically, you should have the poster on a memory stick and be ready to load it promptly when it is your turn to present. It is your responsibility to ensure that the poster will display successfully in the scheduled environment; there will not be time to fix any problems during the presentation session itself.
• Final version of the posters should be submitted in pdf (not ppt) using the Digital Dropbox no later than 23.59 on Fri 4th May 2012. Failure to submit on time using the specified document format will result in loss of marks.

Academic Misconduct

All work for the research presentation should be your own individual work. Evidence of plagiarism, collusion or other academic misconduct will be regarded seriously and may result in serious consequences for your academic progress. If you are unclear about what constitutes academic misconduct, or the possible penalties, you should consult the University guidelines on Academic Misconduct

The content of the poster should be your own -- text, diagrams, tables etc. Even if correctly referenced, it will be difficult to demonstrate a good understanding of the material, and hence to attract high marks, if the content is quoted from other sources.