Course projects will be research or experimental projects related to 4G/5G wireless technologies. Survey projects are not allowed unless can be justified strongly and approved by the instructor.
Each project team is expected to be composed of 2 students. Exceptions to this rule can be granted by the instructor if it can be properly justified. In particular, larger projects can have 3 students, but there should be a strong justification in the project proposal that includes individual roles and clear responsibilities for each student. If any student prefers to work on a project individually, that is acceptable, but it should be justified strongly. Due to difficulties of distance education students in forming teams, they are allowed to work as a single person by default on the course projects. For team projects, the contributions of each team member should be documented in each project deliverable.
There will be three deliverables for the course project and they should each be prepared using the IEEE conference paper template (see #5 below). All these deliverables will be submitted through Moodle, and it is sufficient that only the team lead uploads the deliverable to Moodle. As the naming convention for your project deliverable file, use “DX_LastName1_LastName2_LastName3” where X = 1, 2, or 3 that refers to the particular project deliverable. Please read the additional description below carefully and incorporate all necessary information in your project deliverable in order not to lose any points while grading your project deliverable.
D1: Project proposal (15%, up to two pages). Your project proposal should have title, list of team members, an abstract, and a high-level description of your selected project topic. It should include an initial description of the topic to be researched and the simulations/experiments to be done. A research project can for example focus on a recently published journal paper (to be approved by the instructor), replicating the results in that paper, and in some cases, extending them in a different context. Experiment projects may for example include software defined radio experiments with 4G/5G wireless platforms and equipment. The instructor will post some candidate project topics during the first two weeks of the course, while the project teams can also propose their own project topics.
D2: Mid-semester progress report (25%, up to three pages). Your project progress report should show that you started working on your project and obtained some preliminary results. There should also be a discussion on what work remains for the final project report. The progress update should also include a paragraph on who has contributed what to the project update. There may be feedback provided by the instructor and/or the TAs on your deliverable-1, and such feedback should be incorporated into your mid-semester progress report.
D3: Final project report (60%, six to eight pages). Your final report should be a comprehensive description of your findings from the project. It should incorporate the feedback by the instructor and/or the TAs from the first two project deliverables. It should include a table at the end that clearly describes who worked on what portion of the project. Research/experiment projects should include final results that are generated by the team. Your report should include a link to a Google folder that includes source codes, data, and all three project reports submitted as part of your course project (see item 6 below).
A tentative schedule for the deadlines for each of the deliverables will be posted in the course website.
The project proposal, progress and final reports should all be written based on the double-column IEEE conference paper template that can be found at the following link: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm. Use of LaTeX (e.g., through Overleaf) over MS Word is encouraged for writing your reports. Your final report should be 6 to 8 pages (double-column, single spaced); any additional material beyond 8 pages can be included as Appendices if desired. All used references should be explicitly cited within your report. Plagiarism (e.g., copy/paste from Wikipedia or other papers without providing citations and changing wording) will be heavily penalized during grading! Everything in your deliverables should be in your own words.
All the source codes, deliverable reports, and other material should be submitted as part of the final project deliverable using a Google folder that is to be shared with the instructor at the time of final project submission.