Reference no: EM132187732

Problem Based Learning

Description of the PBL exercise:

Students in a group of 3-4, can choose two (2) case studies from this list to prepare a presentation slides progressively from week 2 to 11. Submit PBL presentation files in week 6 and 11. Marks will be allocated as follows:

a. Participation in the PBL tutorial classes from week 2 to 11= 3 marks
b. Presentation of case study 1 in week 6 and submission of reflective report = 3 marks
c. Presentation of case study 2 in week 11 and submission of reflective report = 4 marks

Week 1 Exercise:

XYZ company is planning to have a network of 18 luxury hotels which are located on three continents, in locations such as Hong Kong, London, Geneva, Bermuda, Bangkok and Singapore.

Discuss on the following topics:
- What type of network can be designed?
- What are the networking devices to be used?
- What type of cables to be used? 

1. Network design proposal for casino

Project Scope
The project aims to design a network for a casino. The casino has 10 floors including the ground floor. The ground floor has a lobby area. Each floor also has a lobby area. There are 40 rooms in each floor, each of which has a network point to which the guest PC is connected. The casino network has two servers which are used by the staff. A high speed internet connection is available which is to be shared by the guest and staff network. There is a total of 25 staff in the casino based at the ground floor.

Project requirement
1. Network Topology diagram.
2. Identify the hardware required such as routers, switches, access points
3. The network has to be segregated into guest and staff
4. The guest network should not have access to the staff network.
5. Network design and IP address table.
6. Configurations and features on the devices.
Contents
• Project Scope
• Project requirements
• Hardware analysis
• Network design - Consider Human factor (User-Centric Design) concepts
• Topology diagram
• IP addresses table including netmask (with justification)

2. Network design proposal for Bank

Project Scope
A network proposal has to be developed for a bank. The bank has a main office, which is located in London, and has 5 branch offices located at Paris, California, India, Dubai and Qatar. The bank has an application server, which is used by it's customers across the world for online transactions. All the branches have high speed internet connection. There are approximately 100 users in each of the branch offices and 200 users in the main office.
Network requirements.
1. Identify the hardware components required to setup the network for the Bank
2. High availability should be available to the application server, which is accessible using https protocol.
3. The application server should be setup in a secure manner with network and host level protection.
4. All traffic into the application server should be scanned for security attacks.
5. IP network design for the branch and main offices.
6. IP addressing range for users and hardware components.
7. The users at different locations should be able to access each other, including the application server.
8. Identify the features and methodology which would be followed to achieve the solution.
9. Network Topology diagram.
Report Contents
• Project Scope
• Project requirements
• Network requirement analysis
• Hardware and software requirement analysis
• Network design - Consider Human factor (User-Centric Design) concepts
• Features and Services (VLAN, ACL, Static NAT, Failover cluster)
• Network Topology Diagram
• IP Network design
• IP address design

3. LAN Network design with redundancy

Project Scope
A network which has redundancy in the design to be setup for an organization. The organization is currently having an internet connection, which is setup using a Cisco router. The gateway addresses for users in the LAN is currently provided as an intermediate routers address, which would then forward all internet bound packets to the internet router. The network has to be upgraded by having dual intermediate routers which would automatically failover, and provide high availability access to the internet. HSRP is to be used for the deployment. The project identifies the configurations required on Cisco routers to achieve the same.
Networking requirements
1. LAN IP network design.
2. Network Topology diagram.
3. Configurations required on the routers to setup high availability with HSRP.
4. Configurations required on the routers to setup appropriate IP address and internet packet forwarding on the routers.
5. Configurations required on the LAN PC's for appropriate gateway parameters.
6. Verification and Testing Procedure
Content
• Project Scope
• Project requirements
• Network requirement analysis
• Features and Services
• Network design - Consider Human factor (User-Centric Design) concepts
• IP Network Design with table for users and components
• Network configuration tips
• Network Topology Diagram

4. Design a pre-sales proposal for network setup in a university

A pre-sales design proposal for network setup in a university. The university has the following 7 departments: IT, Finance, HR, Management, Faculty, Students, and R&D.
The university has an ADSL internet connection which would be used by the departmentsexcept for the R&D department which should not have access to the same. All the departments should be able to communicate with each other. Each department contains 50-100 users.
Networking Requirement
1. The active network components which are required ( Routers , Switches ).
2. The number of switches , routers which are required for the design.
3. The IP Design schema for the department.
4. Explanation of the details required to be configured on the Switch and how tocreate different departments with VLAN.
5. Explanation of how to restrict internet connection for R&D Department and allowaccess for the other departments with Access control lists on the Router.
6. Identify the feature on the router which is required for sharing the Internet for theusers.
7. Network Design Diagram.

5. Remote access VPN Network design behind NAT router

Project scope and description
In this project, a network has to be designed for remote access VPN. A windows XP VPN server is to be setup behind a Cisco NAT router.
The NAT router has a public IP address received dynamically by the ISP, which is also required to be used by the LAN users for internet. The remote users should be able to connect to the public IP address of the router, and establish connectivity with the VPN server. After connection is established, the remote user should be able to access systems on the LAN. LAN and VPN network should be segregated using appropriate VLAN's

Contents
• Project scope and description
• Hardware and Software requirements
• Network Implementation Strategy
• IP and VLAN Network design and Configuration- Consider Human factor (User-Centric Design) concepts
• TCP/IP adapter screenshot on VPN Server
• TCP/IP adapter screenshot on LAN PC1
• Windows VPN Server configuration screenshots
• VPN Client configuration on Windows
• Network Topology Diagram with IP addressing
 
6. IP CCTV Network Design for Enterprise

Project Scope
An enterprise network has to be integrated with IP CCTV's. The network has 4 floors. Each of the floors has approx 40 users. There are a total of 4 nos of 48 port switches at each floor. The computers of the users receive IP address through a dhcp server, which is setup on the broadband ADSL router from the 192.168.1.0/24 network. After requirement analysis, it has been analysed that 3 CCTV's has to be setup at each of the floors.

Network requirement analysis
1. Infrastructure analysis for CCTV integration.
2. IP addresses design for CCTV.
3. Identifying used IP addresses on the network.
4. Remote access procedure for CCTV from the admin PC in the enterprise.
5. Remote access of CCTV's from the internet.
6. Mechanism to access CCTV using names.
7. Recommended CCTVs with model.
Report Contents
• Project Scope
• Project requirements
• Infrastructure Analysis
• Existing network Infrastructure diagram.
• Existing IP address identification procedure
• IP address design for CCTV - Consider Human Factor (User-Centric Design) Concept
• Procedure for CCTV Remote access from central PC procedure
• Procedure for Remote access of CCTV's from the internet
• Network Topology diagram of remote access from internet.
• IP address to name mapping table.
• Naming convention.
• Mechanism to access CCTV's using names.
• Recommended CCTV Models

7. Small Business Network Design with Guest Network

Project Scope
A small business network has to be designed for an organization. The organization has occasional guest users (Max 10) visiting the office. There are a total of 50 users in the organization. A FTP server is also available for sharing files.
Network requirement.
1. Separate subnet for guest and LAN network.
2. The guest network should be restricted to access only FTP service on the FTP server and all other access to the LAN network should be blocked.
3. IP Network Design
4. Identify the hardware - Switches and Routers.
5. Configuration details on hardware
Report Contents
• Project Title
• Project Scope
• Network planning
• IP Network design table - Consider Human Factor (User-Centric Design) Concept
• Network Topology diagram with IP addresses
• Network Integration plan

8. Network Security Policy Implementation for Campus

Project Scope
A network has to designed aligning to the network security policy requirements outlined below for a campus. The campus has faculty and students. There are 50 users in the faculty and 150 users in the student section respectively. There are two servers on the network, which is used for a social network application and file sharing. The social network application is accessible by web browsers with appropriate username and password combinations. The file server is accessible using FTP client.
Network & Policy Requirements
1. Provide only FTP access to users to the FTP server and all other service only to network admin.
2. Allow only web access to the Social network server and disallow all other service to users other than admin.
3. Mac-level authentication to be provided to users on the network.
4. Remote access to router should be secured with password for admin.
5. The users and the servers should be on separate networks.
6. Cisco based infrastructure to be used.
7. Identify the configurations wherever appropriate.
8. Identify the quantity of switches, routers etc.
Report Contents
• Project Scope
• Network & Policy requirements
• Requirement analysis
• Hardware analysis
• TCP/IP Network Design - Consider Human Factor (User-Centric Design) Concept
• Topology diagram with IP addressing

9. VLAN network design with restricted internet access

Project Scope
To design a network for a software development organization based on vlan with Cisco routers and switches. The organization has three departments, development, testing and trainee and a high speed internet connection.
The trainee department should not have access to internet browsing, but all other communication should be allowed on the internet. The users in all the departments should have inter access communication with each other. All the departments should be on different IP networks.

Project Requirements
1. Design different vlans for each department.
2. Design and map IP network addresses for each vlan.
3. Cisco based routers and switches to be used.
4. Identify the configurations required on the routers and switches for the solutions like vlan, intervlan routing, internet access restriction etc.
5. Identify the TCP/IP adapter configurations which are required to be setup on the clients.
Report - Contents below
• Project Scope
• Project Requirement
• Hardware and Software
• Network design - Consider Human factor (User-Centric Design) concepts
• Network topology diagram

Instruction for Presentation

1 Submit your slides to Moodle to comply with the assignment marking criteria. I suggest you include the format below [50% of total mark]
• 1st slide: title, name, ID, date, Tutor etc
• 2nd slide: Introduction including definition, brief explanation of the topic, and the structure of the remaining presentation clearly
• 3rd slide: Figure/table to show the overview of the topic
• 4th and 5th slide: Detail explanation of the topic. This can be extended by 1 or 2 more slides
• 6th slide: Advantages and Disadvantages, Problems, Solutions etc
• 7th slide: diagram, figures, pictures to support the previous slides.
• 8th: Future works: what to be done, what are the trends? This slide can be located after the conclusion.
• 9th: conclusion
• 10th: References: all references should have in citation and properly referenced in text and references following IEEE format.

2 Presentation
You should present in clear English so that audience can understand what you are talking about. Speak slowly, clearly and loudly.
How will it be marked?
- As long as you conform the slides format as above, you may get pass mark. Otherwise, you may get penalties. For example,9 slides are perfect but missing 10th slides for reference. In this case, 10% deduction will occur even though you presented 9 slides properly. Thus, I strongly suggest you prepare the slides to 100% follow the format suggested.
- Do NOT read the slides but talk about your thoughts. You will get penalty mark if you simply read the slides even though you perfectly presented other aspects. Presentation and communication skills will be mainly checked.
- Submit to Moodle and do not bring a memory stick or email access for your presentation. You will not have a chance to present unless you submitted it to Moodle as your tutor will using the file in the Moodle for your presentation. No exception.
- Make points with a few bullet points, and do not cut and paste your article paragraph. You will lose marks for too many words.

Attachment:- Instructions.zip