CS211 - Fall 2003
Protocol and Systems Design for Wireless and Mobile Networks

• Final Project Report:
  • You are required to use the ACM conference proceeding format. The templates in MS Word and Latex are downloadable from: http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
  • Each report should be about 8-12 page long in 10-point font.
  • There are many articles on how to write a paper/report. The following is one such an example on paper structure suggested by a Columbia CS group.
• Final Project Representation:
  • Each group has 20 minutes for presentation, and 5 minutes for Q/A.
  • The presentation has to clearly state the following items: (1) the precise problem to solve, (2) the issues/challenges to address (i.e., why the problem is non-trivial and worth your full-quarter effort to work on), (3) the related work (i.e., what are the existing solutions, why such solutions cannot beused to solve your problem and their cons and pros, why your solution is different), (4) your solution: what is the main idea, what is the detailed algorithm/protocol/design, why your design addresses the challenges, (5) evaluation: the simulator/implementation effort, the results from the simulation/implementation, (6) things learned: the insight gained from the design/evaluation, the lessons learned.
  • Do not be afraid to tell people that your approach has some problems or you got some negative results based on the current effort (but the negative results cannot be attributed due to lack of effort by the group, e.g., little time to learn the simulator or real implementation). However, you need to clearly explain what leads to the current results technically.
• Monday's lecture (Nov.17) is postponed to Wed/Thursday evening.
• The Class Mailing List (cs211@lists.ucla.edu) is Up!
• Where to find the reading assignment ?
• For all reading assignments, they will be posted on the class homepage:
• http://www.cs.ucla.edu/classes/fall03/cs211/schedule.html

• Due Date for Each Reading Critique: 12:00pm (Noon) on each lecture day (MW)
• How to submit your assignments ?
• You are encouraged to submit your reading assignments via email to
• slu@cs.ucla.edu
• Please do put the following words in the Subject: field -- "CS211 - homework # "
• you are encouraged to submit your assignments in PLAIN TEXT format.
• What are we expecting from your critique:
• Three strong points of the paper: identify three most significant contributions of the paper. Please comment on the technical content, not the writeup or organization of the paper!
• Three weakness/limitations/open issues: identify three possible weakness or limitations or closely-related open issues. Again, Please stay on the technical track.
• Suggestions on three possible improvements or solutions
• Overall, keep your writeup concise and precise, typically one to two-page long
• We expect that you use your own words to describe your in-depth understanding on the paper. If you use the original sentences from the paper, you will expect credit deduction.