CS 431 Advanced Computer Networks
Course Outline

• CS 331 - Computer Networks

1. Students demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental concepts of advanced networks.
2. Students demonstrate an ability to study in-depth a problem or research topic in advanced networks.
3. Students demonstrate an ability to present their ideas, methods, designs, and results in both written and oral formats.
4. Students demonstrate an ability to perform their research within a team, and can discusses their research with classmates.

There are four labs in the first four weeks, one per week. The purposes of the labs include:

• helping you get some hands-on experience of hardware configuration,
• applying the computer network knowledge learned from CS331 on a robotics project,
• and gaining some experience of quickly learning new knowledge relevant to a new project,

Labs are posted on Moodle every Thursday in the first four weeks. You are expected to demonstrate your lab outcomes to the rest of the class in the following Tuesday’s class and submit your code by that Tuesday.

Labs are group work, and all group members are expected to participate.

The first four weeks are also the time for you to find your partner(s) who will work on the semester-long project with you during the rest of the semester. You and your partner should discuss your project idea in these four weeks, getting ready for the first milestone in week 5.

Email Ying your code by the following Tuesday after the lab is posted. Email subject should be in this form: S431 Fall2021 Lab# -- Your Name and Your Partner(s)’s Name (e.g., CS431 Fall2021 Lab1 -- Ying Li and Toto).

There are five milestones for each project. They are designed to break your research project into smaller ones, which can let you work better with your group members and can allow me to provide support and feedback more efficiently.

The following table lists the expected content of each presentation. The slides should contain details of the content.

You are expected to email me your presentation slides by the midnight of the privious day of the presentation day of each milestone, which usually is the last class of each milestone. The subject of your email should follow this format CS431 Fall2021 Milestone# -- Your Name and Your Partner(s)’s Name (e.g., CS431 Fall2021 Milestone1 -- Ying Li and Toto).

By the last day of class (Friday, December 10 2021), each group is expected to email me your poster, final report and all the source code of your project. Please compress the source code poster, and final report in a single zip file.

• Everyone is expected to work on the devices, run the demo and finish the assignment every week during the first four weeks.
• For each milestone, every group will give an oral presentation with slides to update the rest of the class on your progress. Everyone in the class is expected to ask questions and everyone in the group is expected to answer questions.
• Attending classes is an easy way for you to work with your group members and/or get help from me. So you are expected to attend classes. Let Ying and your group members know beforehand if you have to miss a class.

This policy applies to anyone you work with other than your partner.

Computer science, both academically and professionally, is a collaborative discipline. In any collaboration, however, all parties are expected to make their own contributions and to generously credit the contributions of others. In our class, therefore, collaboration on homework and programming assignments is encouraged, but you as an individual are responsible for understanding all the material in the assignment and doing your own work. Always strive to do your best, give generous credit to others, start early, and seek help early from both your professors and classmates.

The following rules are intended to help you get the most out of your education and to clarify the line between honest and dishonest work. We reserve the right to ask you to verbally explain the reasoning behind any answer or code that you turn in and to modify your project grade based on your answers. It is vitally important that you turn in work that is your own. We do use automated plagiarism detection software, so please be sure to abide by these, rather minimal, rules. Reports of academic dishonesty are handled by an academic review board and a finding of academic dishonesty may result in significant sanctions. For more details on Colby's Academic Integrity policies and procedures, see colby.edu/academicintegrity.

• If you have had a substantive discussion of any programming project with a classmate, then be sure to cite them in your write-up. If you are unsure of what constitutes "substantive", then ask me or err on the side of caution. As one rule of thumb, if you see more than 10 lines of someone else's code, then you should cite them. You will not be penalized for working together.
• You must not copy answers or code from another student either by hand or electronically. Another way to think about it is that you should be talking English with one another, not program languages.

Colby College is a community dedicated to learning and committed to the growth and well-being of all its members.

As a community devoted to intellectual growth, we value academic integrity. We agree to take ownership of our academic work, to submit only work that is our own, to fully acknowledge the research and ideas of others in our work, and to abide by the instructions and regulations governing academic work established by the faculty.

As a community built on respect for ourselves, each other, and our physical environment, we recognize the diversity of people who have gathered here and that genuine inclusivity requires active, honest, and compassionate engagement with one another. We agree to respect each other, to honor community expectations, and to comply with College policies.

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