Course Project - Update
Fall 2017
The report is due on December 7 in class. Your submission will be graded in three parts. The total will be out of 20 marks.
Part 1: The high-level research-activity review (5 marks)
Describe how your review of the conference/journal literature influenced your choice of topic. This part of the literature review is less formal than the others. Here are some sample questions you may wish to consider:
What conferences did you look through?
What topics did these conferences cover?
Are these conferences well-established or relatively new?
Have the topics remained consistent or have they shifted over time?
How influential and relevant are these conferences?
Has the influence and/or relevance of these conferences changed over time?
How did any of the trends above influence your choice of topic?
You may also wish to answer the same questions for any individual researchers whose work inspired you. I will evaluate the breadth of your review and whether or not you said anything interesting or insightful.
Part 2: The high-level topic review (5 marks)
Give an overview of your topic and the research being done in it. Here are some questions you may wish to consider:
How has the research in this topic evolved over time?
What are some significant papers in your topic? Explain.
Describe some of the major challenges and unresolved issues of this topic.
Where do you see the field heading in the future?
What impact does/will this topic have within the overall field of networking?
I will evaluate the breadth of your summary and whether or not you said anything interesting or insightful.
Part 3: The critique (10 marks)
The evaluation criteria for the critique is the same as phase 1 in the original course project description. Some additional guidelines/highlights to consider:
The critique is based on three selected papers.
Try to avoid using survey papers in your analysis.
Identify the key ideas/contributions in each of the papers in your critique
Make sure to analyze/compare/deconstruct these ideas in relation to each other.
I will evaluate the depth of your analysis and whether or not your critique was interesting. Good luck!