Notice
As part of Phase 3 of our return to campus plan, most units will now run tutorials, seminars and other small group activities on campus, and most will keep an online version available to those students unable to return or those who choose to continue their studies online.
To check the availability of face-to-face and online activities for your unit, please go to timetable viewer. To check detailed information on unit assessments visit your unit's iLearn space or consult your unit convenor.
Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor / Lecturer
Nardin Hanna
Contact via Email
BD Building
TBA
Lecturer / Program Leader
Rajan Shankaran
Contact via (EXT) 9537
BD Building
TBA
|
---|---|
Credit points |
Credit points
10
|
Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
ITEC647 or COMP6250
|
Corequisites |
Corequisites
|
Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
This Unit is co-badged with Comp7250
|
Unit description |
Unit description
This unit aims to address various advanced aspects of networking, particularly the current and emerging research topics in network. The focus will be on material drawn from the recent research literature. Topics include but are not limited to label switching, VPN architectures, Inter-domain routing, advanced multicast routing models, traffic engineering, congestion control, quality of service, and multimedia networks. The unit consists of lecture, reading, discussion and assignment components.
|
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
No extensions will be granted without an approved application for Special Consideration. There will be a deduction of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. For example, 25 hours late in submission for an assignment worth 10 marks – 20% penalty or 2 marks deducted from the total. No submission will be accepted after solutions have been posted.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
---|---|---|---|
Final Examination | 40% | No | TBA |
Assignment 2 | 40% | No | Report Due: Week 11 |
Assignment 1 | 20% | No | Week 7 |
Assessment Type 1: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: TBA
Weighting: 40%
Written exam.
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 40 hours
Due: Report Due: Week 11
Weighting: 40%
Assignment 2 - Group Project will apply to all material taught in this course. Students will leverage their knowledge of mobile networks to research and critically analyse relevant literature in the discipline and present conclusions. The assessment also allows students to further develop their team working and professional communication skills.
Assessment Type 1: Problem set
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 7
Weighting: 20%
The purpose of the problem solving assignment is to help the students to get accustomed to dealing with real world problem situations/issues.It is designed to help students analyse a particular problem and find its best solution. Some questions may require an in depth research and will be a process to come up with an acceptable and reasonable answer
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
2 hours of pre-recorded lectures each week.
Lectures are used to introduce communication protocols, ISP network architecture and design and put them in a wider context. You are encouraged to ask questions of the lecturer, both during and outside the lecture, to clarify anything you might not be sure of.
Lecture notes will be made available each week but these notes are intended as an outline of the lecture only and are not a substitute for your own notes or the recommended reading list.
It should be noted that no single text book completely covers the content of this unit. A large portion of the lecture material is drawn from research papers, white papers and standard documents . Students are encouraged to read the weekly recommended reading list to gain a solid understanding of the topics that are covered.
Assignments
Your assignment is to be submitted online using Turnitin.
Tutorial
Tutorials are posted every Friday on ilearn. Even though these tutorial exercises are not formally assessed, it is important that students solve them on a weekly basis as these questions are often previous exam questions or structured like test/exam questions. The more practice you have at such questions, the more likely you are to do yourself justice in exams. Solutions to these exercises will be regularly posted on ilearn unit site. If need be, this will also allow you to discuss the problems effectively with your lecturer/peers and maximise the feedback you get on your work. In case of any difficulty, seek help from the teaching staff.
Practicals
The purpose of practical classes is to reinforce the concepts that are covered in the lecture materials.
Practical classes give you an opportunity to practice your practical networking skills under the supervision of a demonstrator. Each week you will be given a number of problems to work on; it is important that you keep up with these problems as doing so will help you understand the material in the unit and prepare you for the work in assignments.
Note that while the practical material is structured against the lecture material, you need to keep in mind that there will not always be a one to one mapping between the practical exercises and the lecture topics. This is because you need some practical sessions to get acquainted to new tools and devices thereby limiting the number of practical time slots available to experiment with technologies discussed in some lectures.
There will be one 2 hour practical session each week, Conducted in a specially-equipped networking laboratory. There is no opportunity to conduct practical work outside the assigned sessions.
Note that practical classes will start in week 2.
General Notes
In this unit, you should do the following:
Please note it is to your benefit to attend most of the classes, prepared to participate in discussions, ask and answer questions, and provide perspectives from your own background and workplaces. Resources to assist your learning Digital recordings of lectures are available as Echo360 through iLearn login. These are provided for review material and in case of missing lectures. Recordings should not be relied upon and copyrighted material may be omitted. iLearn is used for out-of-class communication as well as forums where active discussion of issues is encouraged. iLearn can be found at can be found at http://learn.mq.edu.au. You are encouraged to review iLearn weekly and to do background reading before each class.
There is no single text book containing material that could address all topics of unit. All necessary reading material will be provided by the lecturer every week.
Computer Networks and Internets: Global (6th) Edition by Douglas Comer
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach 6th edition by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross
Douglas Comer, Internetworking with TCP/IP volume 1: Principles Protocols, and Architecture, 6th edition, Prentice Hall.
Tentative Schedule |
||
Week 1 |
Unit Introduction, Introduction to Networks- Overview of Addressing: CIDR and Routing (Intra-Domain) |
|
Week 2 |
Border Gateway Protocol Part I |
|
Week 3 |
Border gateway Protocol Part II |
|
Week 4 |
Internet Routing Architectures |
|
Week 5 |
IP Multicast |
|
Week 6 |
Multi-Protocol label Switching (MPLS) |
|
Week 7 |
VPN Technology: Part 1: MPLS VPN |
Assignment 1 Due |
Break |
||
Week 8 |
VPN Technology: Part II: Other approaches to designing VPNs, VPLS |
|
Week 9 |
Traffic Engineering (with MPLS) |
|
Week 10 |
Network Security |
|
Week 11 |
Group Presentations |
Group Reports Due |
Week 12 |
Group Presentations |
|
Week 13 |
Unit Review |
Macquarie University policies and procedures are accessible from Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au). Students should be aware of the following policies in particular with regard to Learning and Teaching:
Students seeking more policy resources can visit Student Policies (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/policies). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
To find other policies relating to Teaching and Learning, visit Policy Central (https://policies.mq.edu.au) and use the search tool.
Macquarie University students have a responsibility to be familiar with the Student Code of Conduct: https://students.mq.edu.au/admin/other-resources/student-conduct
Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit ask.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
Macquarie University provides a range of support services for students. For details, visit http://students.mq.edu.au/support/
Learning Skills (mq.edu.au/learningskills) provides academic writing resources and study strategies to help you improve your marks and take control of your study.
The Library provides online and face to face support to help you find and use relevant information resources.
Students with a disability are encouraged to contact the Disability Service who can provide appropriate help with any issues that arise during their studies.
For all student enquiries, visit Student Connect at ask.mq.edu.au
If you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
For help with University computer systems and technology, visit http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/offices_and_units/information_technology/help/.
When using the University's IT, you must adhere to the Acceptable Use of IT Resources Policy. The policy applies to all who connect to the MQ network including students.
At the end of the semester, you will receive a grade that reflects your achievement in the unit
In this unit, the final mark will be calculated by combining the marks for all assessment tasks according to the percentage weightings shown in the assessment summary.
There are no hurdles in the unit.
Concretely, in order to pass the unit, you must obtain an overall total mark of 50% or higher.
Students obtaining a higher grade than a pass in this unit will (in addition to the above)
Note:
You are encouraged to:
All work submitted should be readable and well presented.
You should never commit plagiarism in any of your submitted work, including tutorial and practical answers.
Date | Description |
---|---|
05/02/2021 | No Changes |
Unit information based on version 2021.04 of the Handbook