Each question has a word limit of between 300 and 400 words which is a little under a page per question (the total length should be around 4 pages including diagrams). Ensure that you read and adhere to the following instructions: Your answer will require supporting arguments and references that cite your research, since this is a networking unit you should use IEEE referencing style. Your assignment will be submitted electronically via TurnItIn on the COMP247 iLearn page. All submissions must be in PDF format -- do not submit a MS-Word file. Also, ensure that your report does not include the question text. Any diagrams you create must be computer generated, not scanned and/or hand drawn. Your submission needs to be a single PDF file). Questions 2 and 3 should each be thought of as extensions to your initial report from Question 1 and should therefore be in the same style.

For all questions in this assignment not only content but also presentation will affect your mark. You will lose marks if there are problems with the presentation, particularly with clarity. This means that your answers to each question should be a coherent statement and that the spelling and grammar of your submission will be taken into account in assessing its presentation. For full marks, your answers should be well argued, clear, and coherent.

In addition, the following particular standards will be applied in marking this assignment: Spelling and grammar: Assignment submissions with more than 4 spelling or grammatical errors will not achieve a grade higher than distinction; submissions with more than 8 such errors will not achieve a grade higher than credit. Clarity: Ambiguous or poorly worded answers will receive a grade no more than a pass for the individual question. Minor issues of clarity will receive a grade no more than credit for the individual question.

Correctness of approach taken and answer obtained: Incorrect answers with the correct logic or approach will receive no more than a pass for the individual question. Correct answers with incorrect logic or approach will receive no more than pass for the individual question. Incorrect answers with no explanation of the approach taken or with the incorrect approach will receive a fail grade for the individual question. The questions will be marked individually, the marks totalled, and a final grade assigned that is no more than indicated by the total marks, and no more than allowed by the standards specified above and in the unit outline.

Submission - Submit on the iLearn page under ‘Assignments Section’. The submission is with a tool called TurnItIn. In short – DON’T COPY – or get others to do your assignment, we are pretty good at catching people out and the consequences can be severe. Do not trust anyone who will take money to do assignments. They can take money from several students, return the same assignment, and you get caught. They don’t care, but we do!