Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Lecturer
Yipeng Zhou
Lecturer and Convener
Tao Gu
Tutor
Muhammad Sajjad Akbar
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
COMP6010 and COMP6250
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This course focuses on recent advances in multimedia networking technologies and protocols. The multimedia transportation requires the network to support timely and errorless transmission much more strictly than other data. This had led to the development of state of the art technologies, protocols and mechanisms to support multimedia traffic over the network. Major topics include multimedia compression and standards, quality of service (QoS) support mechanisms and protocols, performance analysis, queuing principles, IP multicasting, Internet multimedia applications, and multimedia transport over wireless networks. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Late submissions will be accepted but will incur a penalty unless there is an approved Special Consideration request. A 12-hour grace period will be given after which the following deductions will be applied to the awarded assessment mark: 12 to 24 hours late = 10% deduction; for each day thereafter, an additional 10% per day or part thereof will be applied until five days beyond the due date. After this time, a mark of zero (0) will be given. For example, an assessment worth 20% is due 5 pm on 1 January. Student A submits the assessment at 1 pm, 3 January. The assessment received a mark of 15/20. A 20% deduction is then applied to the mark of 15, resulting in the loss of three (3) marks. Student A is then awarded a final mark of 12/20.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Quiz 2 | 10% | No | Week 10 |
Quiz 1 | 10% | No | Week 5 |
Assignment 2 | 30% | No | Week 11 |
Final Examination | 40% | No | Exam period |
Assignment 1 | 10% | No | Week 7 |
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: Week 10
Weighting: 10%
A quiz is a short test that will be based on your previously covered lecture material. For example, week 5 quiz will be based on lectures done in weeks 1-4. The quiz serves as a feedback mechanism to monitor your progress in the unit.
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 5 hours
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 10%
A quiz is a short test that will be based on your previously covered lecture material. For example, week 5 quiz will be based on lectures done in weeks 1-4. The quiz questions will be handed over to you at the beginning of your Lecture class. Each quiz contributes 10% of the total mark and serves as a feedback mechanism to monitor your progress in the unit.
Assessment Type 1: Project
Indicative Time on Task 2: 20 hours
Due: Week 11
Weighting: 30%
Report Writing and Presentation: Students will leverage their knowledge of multimedia systems and real time protocols 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: Examination
Indicative Time on Task 2: 30 hours
Due: Exam period
Weighting: 40%
Final examination
Assessment Type 1: Problem set
Indicative Time on Task 2: 15 hours
Due: Week 7
Weighting: 10%
The purpose of this 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
OMP8290 is taught via lectures and informal tutorial/practical sessions.
Lectures
Lectures are used to introduce switch/router design and cloud architectures and protocols 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.
Quizzes
There will be two quizzes in the following weeks: 5 and 10. These quizzes will be held in the practical class. A quiz is a short test that will be based on your previously covered lecture material. For example, week 5 quiz will be based on lectures done in weeks 1-4. The quiz questions will be handed over to you at the beginning of your Lecture class. These quizzes contribute 20% of the total mark and serve as a feedback mechanism to monitor your progress in the unit.
Assignments
Your assignment is to be submitted online using Turnitin. There will be a deduction of 5% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period or part thereof that the submission is late. This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for special consideration is made and approved. If you cannot submit assignments on time because of illness or other circumstances, please contact the convener at the earliest possible time.
Tutorial
Problem solving session: 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 quizzes/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.
Practical
The purpose of practical sessions is to reinforce the concepts that were taught in the lectures.
Note: Practical classes are not held every week. Please refer to the ilearn unit web page for updates.
TEXT
There is no single text book containing material that could address all topics of unit. All necessary reading material and elaborate and detailed notes on lecture topics will be provided by the lecturer every week.
Other Useful Books (You need not buy unless you believe you need to own one)
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Unit information based on version 2022.04 of the Handbook