Special Consideration

The Special Consideration Policy aims to support students who have been impacted by short-term circumstances or events that are serious, unavoidable and significantly disruptive, and which may affect their performance in assessment. If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through ask.mq.edu.au.

Written Assessments: If you experience circumstances or events that affect your ability to complete the written assessments in this unit on time, please inform the convenor and submit a Special Consideration request through ask.mq.edu.au.

Assignment Submission

Late Assessment Submission Penalty 

From 1 July 2022, Students enrolled in Session based units with written assessments will have the following late penalty applied. Please see https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/assessments for more information. 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day a written report or presentation assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern. For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, please apply for Special Consideration.

In this unit, late submissions will be accepted for the following assessment tasks:: 

• Quiz 1: NO, unless Special Consideration is granted  
• Quiz 2: NO, unless Special Consideration is granted  
• Assignment 1: YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 
• Assignment 2: YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 

Requirements to pass the unit

To pass this unit you must:

•  Achieve a total mark equal to or greater than 50%,

There are no hurdles in this unit.

COMP8280 is taught via lectures and informal workshop sessions. 

Note: There are no Hurdles in this unit.

Methods of Communication 

We will communicate with you via your university email and through announcements on iLearn. Queries to convenors can either be placed on the iLearn discussion board or sent to the unit convenor via the contact email on iLearn

Lectures

Lecture sessions will provide an opportunity for the students to ask questions on the topic of the week and to clarify anything that they might not be sure of. In order for theselectures to be worthwhile, we strongly urge the students to watch the recordings before attending these lectures...

Lecture recordings will be made available through Echo360.

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, Industry 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

The Quiz is an in-class test. It is a formative assessment that can be used to measure students’ knowledge and comprehension of unit materials. Quiz Question types may include multiple choice, and true/false type of questions. Quizzes allow for formative assessment feedback on basic conceptual competence and therefore usually span multiple learning outcomes.There will be two quizzes in the following weeks: 5 and 10. The quiz will be based on your previously covered lecture material. For example, week 5 quiz will be based on lectures done in weeks 1-4..Each quiz contributes 20% of the total mark and serves as a feedback mechanism to monitor your progress in the unit.

These quizzes will be auto marked in ilearn. The results will be released on ilearn in a timely manner .

Assignments

The assignment is submitted through Turnitin aand students can see Turnitin similarity reports..Results will be released on iLearn in a timely manner, subject to certain acceptable delays such as accommodating special consideration late assessments.

Assignment 1 (Individual)

This is a Problem solving type assessment task. 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.There is no group component to this assignment. This is an individual assignment. Answers will be marked based on technical correctness, completeness, clarity, and relevance..

Assignment 2 (Group)

In this assignment, students will leverage their knowledge of mobile and wireless communication 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. Students will form small groups. Each group will prepare a presentation on report content of roughly 10-15 minutes (refer to the assignment specifications for more details). Presentations will be held in weeks 11 and 12.

Report and presentation: Students will be provided with a rubric at the start of the course so that they may work to specified standards.

Late Submission

From 1 July 2022, Students enrolled in Session based units with written assessments will have the following late penalty applied. Please see https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/assessments for more information. 

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark of the task) will be applied for each day a written report or presentation assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a grade of ‘0’ will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. The submission time for all uploaded assessments is 11:55 pm. A 1-hour grace period will be provided to students who experience a technical concern. For any late submission of time-sensitive tasks, such as scheduled tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, and/or scheduled practical assessments/labs, please apply for Special Consideration.  

In this unit, late submissions will be accepted as follows: 

• Quiz 1: NO, unless Special Consideration is granted  
• Quiz 2: NO, unless Special Consideration is granted  
• Assignment 1: YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 
• Assignment 2: YES, Standard Late Penalty applies 

Workshops

Workshops include problem solving and practical hands on sessions. 

The problem solving sessions will be held in the first half  of the unit. These sessions involve informal discussions with your peers and the teaching staff. Each week you will  be given problems to solve prior to the workshop class; preparing solutions is important because it will allow you to discuss the problems effectively with the teaching staff and maximise the feedback you get on your work.

The practical sessions will be held  in the second half of the unit. Theory and practical work reinforce each other. Students through the use of various simulation tools will learn to model various mobile networking technologies and scenarios.

General Notes

In this unit, you should do the following:

• Attend lectures, take notes, ask questions.
• Attend your workshop sessions, seek feedback from the teaching staff on your work.
• Prepare for and strive to do well in the two quizzes
• Read appropriate sections of the text, add to your notes and prepare questions for your lecturer or other teaching staff.
• Work on any assignments that have been released.

Required and Recommended Texts

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 lecturers every week.

Other Useful Books (You need not buy unless you believe you need to own one)

• Aftab Ahmed, Wireless and Mobile Data Networks. John Wiley & Sons 2005. 
• A. Jamalipour, The Wireless Mobile Internet: Protocols, Architectures, and Services, John Wiley & Sons Publishers, Chichester, UK, 2003.
• M.  Grayson, K. Shatzkamer, K. Wierenga Building the Mobile Internet, Cisco Press, 2011

Lecture Schedule (Tentative)

Note: We anticipate that there may be some shifting of material depending on class progress during the lecture series.

Content has changed to include state of the art topics such as label switching and software defined networking.

Grades

At the end of the semester, you will receive a grade that reflects your achievement in the unit

• Fail (F): does not provide evidence of attainment of all learning outcomes. There is missing or partial or superficial or faulty understanding and application of the fundamental concepts in the field of study; and incomplete, confusing or lacking communication of ideas in ways that give little attention to the conventions of the discipline.

• Fail (FH): has obtained a raw mark over 50, yet failed all available attempt of at least one hurdle assessment. 

• Pass (P): provides sufficient evidence of the achievement of learning outcomes. There is demonstration of understanding and application of fundamental concepts of the field of study; and communication of information and ideas adequately in terms of the conventions of the discipline. The learning attainment is considered satisfactory or adequate or competent or capable in relation to the specified outcomes.

• Credit (Cr): provides evidence of learning that goes beyond replication of content knowledge or skills relevant to the learning outcomes. There is demonstration of substantial understanding of fundamental concepts in the field of study and the ability to apply these concepts in a variety of contexts; plus communication of ideas fluently and clearly in terms of the conventions of the discipline.

• Distinction (D): provides evidence of integration and evaluation of critical ideas, principles and theories, distinctive insight and ability in applying relevant skills and concepts in relation to learning outcomes. There is demonstration of frequent originality in defining and analysing issues or problems and providing solutions; and the use of means of communication appropriate to the discipline and the audience.

• High Distinction (HD): provides consistent evidence of deep and critical understanding in relation to the learning outcomes. There is substantial originality and insight in identifying, generating and communicating competing arguments, perspectives or problem solving approaches; critical evaluation of problems, their solutions and their implications; creativity in application.

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 this 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)

• have a total mark of 85% or higher to obtain High Distinction;

◦ have a total mark of 75% or higher to obtain Distinction;

◦ have a total mark of 65% or higher to obtain Credit.

You are encouraged to:

• set your personal deadline earlier than the actual one;

• keep backups of all important assessed tasks;.

• make sure no one else picks up your printouts. All work submitted should be readable and well presented.

You should never commit plagiarism in any of your submitted work, including workshop and practical answers.