Term Project

This term project will be a research-oriented exercise. The goal is to familiarize you with the latter stages -- particularly experimental design, analysis, presentation -- of a complete research cycle.

To be specific, you will be asked to

• Identify an evaluation problem
• Hypothesize results
• Propose a experimental plan
• Execute the plan
• Analyze experimental results
• Present the results

Immediately after turning in the experimental plan, each team will be scheduled to discuss the term project with the instructor in person. The meeting is set to 30 minutes long. All team members will need to be present during the meeting. The team as a whole (one can speak for the team however) need to describe the research problem identified in the project proposal, your hypothesis, and the plan to go about verifying the hypothesis. The meeting place will be the instructor's office -- BL-613.

It is strongly encouraged that you select a topic of your own research interest to take full advantage of the course. One example from last year is a project 'On the Burstiness and Multiplexing Behavior of TCP Clocking Scheme'. The class project was followed up by the team and the revised work -- 'The Impact of Network Variabilities on TCP Clocking Schemes' -- is published on the 8th IEEE Global Internet Symposium, in conjunction with Infocom 2005.

Current Team List:

• 1. 蕭偉成 江文惠 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 2. 蔡碩展 林靖茹 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 3. 黃信榮 邱奕霖 林宗翰 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 4. 蔡明倉 徐榮德 胡書瑜 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 5. 陳如芃 吳瑞傑 張庭豪 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 6. 廖威霖 黃正一 王皓漢 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 7. 李金諺 蔡宏彬 邱建樺 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 8. 江致和 張晉嘉 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )
• 9. 趙丁漢 謝明志 左家榮 (Proposal: ) (Presentation: )

Submission Instruction:

• Inside the submitted file: please make sure you state the followings at the beginning of the file to be submitted. For each teammate:
  • name (in Chinese)
  • student ID
• Naming the file to submit: Please follow the this naming convention for the file you will submit: type#-team#-mmdd-hhmm.(whatever format you chose to use).
  • (type#): for the proposal, just say 'proposal'; for the final report, just say 'report'
  • (team#): see for your team number above from the team list
  • (mmdd): the date of this submission. 2 digits for the month. 2 digits for the day. For example September 3 will be 0903. Please add a 0 in case the month or day is a single digit number.
  • (hhmm): the approximate time of this submission. 2 digits for the hour in 24 hour scale. 2 digits for the minute. For example 4:45 am will be 0445 and 4:03 pm will be 1603. Please add a 0 in case the hour or minute is a single digit number.
  • A complete example will be something like: proposal-7-1017-1303.pdf
• Uploading the file via ftp: please follow the following instructions.
  • FTP to: nslab.ee.ntu.edu.tw
  • As user: netsim password: fri678
  • Go to the 'homework' directory
  • Put the file you need to submit in this directory
  • Close the ftp connection
• Submiting a better copy: simply follow the instruction above with the modified date and time and then upload. The TA will grade the latest version.