1st Sit COURSEWORK Question Paper: Year Long 2019/20

Module Code: CS5001NA

Module Title: Network and Operating System
Module Leader: Mr. Dipeshor Silwal (Islington college)

Coursework Type: Individual

Simulation and Research

Coursework Weight: This coursework accounts for 30% of your total module
grades.
Submission Date: Week 8
When Coursework is Week 4
given out:
Submission Submit the following to Islington College RTE department
Instructions: before the due date in the google classroom

Warning: London Metropolitan University and Islington College

takes Plagiarism seriously. Offenders will be dealt with
sternly.

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Plagiarism Notice

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You are reminded that there exist regulations concerning plagiarism.

Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion

Section 2.3: “The following broad types of offence can be identified and are provided as
indicative examples …..

(i) Cheating: including copying coursework.

(ii) Falsifying data in experimental results.
(iii) Personation, where a substitute takes an examination or test on behalf of the
candidate. Both candidate and substitute may be guilty of an offence under
these Regulations.
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the candidate’s assessment.
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(vi) Plagiarism, where the work or ideas of another are presented as the
candidate’s own.
(vii) Other conduct calculated to secure an advantage on assessment.
(viii) Assisting in any of the above.

Some notes on what this means for students:

(i) Copying another student's work is an offence, whether from a copy on paper
or from a computer file, and in whatever form the intellectual property being
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font where practicable, and introduce the quotation with an attribution.

Further information in relation to the existing London Metropolitan University regulations

concerning plagiarism can be obtained from http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/academic-
regulations

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Task A - Network Simulation Models/Simulations (50 marks in total)

Scenario:

A Mythical company namely IBN bank is a multinational bank with headquarters in

Edinburgh. The bank is willing to setup two ATM (Automatic Teller Machines)
transaction network in Nepal. The two locations in Nepal are Biratnagar and Lalitpur.
Each network in Nepal consists of 50 ATM transaction nodes plus one single teller
giving a total of 51 ATMs each in a LAN. Each LAN is set up using IEEE 802.5 16
Mbps token passing standard. The Edinburgh LAN is also setup using IEEE 802.5
16 Mbps token passing standard with an ATM processing server. Each LANs are
connected to the frame relay cloud through a cisco 7010sp, V10.0 router. The tunnel
to and from the WAN cloud has a transmission rate of 56 Kbps and the links in the
WAN cloud have a transmission rate of 64 Kbps using sliding window burst type.

An Estimate is made to support a busy peak of ATM device usage which generates
2 transactions per minute in each ATM. This can be described with an interarrival
time with exponential distribution 0.5 with stream 2. The size of ATM authorization
requests can be described by a uniform distribution where the size is evenly
dispersed over the range of 50 to 100 bytes with stream 2. All ATM requests are
processed at the Edinburgh server that responds with a message that can be
explained with uniform probability distribution where the size is evenly dispersed
over the range of 50 to 100 bytes with stream 2. The single teller machines in each
LANs (Biratnagar and Lalitpur) are generated at an interarrival time that can be
defined with an exponential probability distribution with mean 30 which has a size
that can be explained by a uniform distribution where the size is evenly dispersed
over the range of 50 to 120 bytes. For the destination list of message source and
message response you need to generate random list with respective destination.

The routing protocol used is TCP-IP Microsoft V1.0 with 10 ms Packetize time. All
systems use the routing class defined with a hop count of 65535 with IGRP metric
weight (k1) = 1.

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you are required to test the designed model from SECTION A by simulation with
warmup length of 120 seconds and simulation time of 3600 seconds and submit a
technical report which includes:

1. Implementation of the scenario [15 marks]

2. Description of the WAN model [15 marks]
3. Discussion on the following reports: [20 marks]
a. Node reports: Received message counts for all nodes
b. Link reports: channel utilization for all links
c. WAN cloud reports: Frame Delay by VC, Frame count by VC, and
access link stats

d. Message and Report response: Message delay for all nodes.

---------------------------End of Task A--------------------------------

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Task B - Technical Report (50 marks in total)

1. Task B Description
Write a technical report about GSM technologies which includes mobile communication and
cellular technologies, which should be the culmination of good literature search work carried
out through using a good mix of sources: Book, journals, industry white papers, research
outputs of organisations, web resources that have provenance, and textbooks.

This technical report should not exceed 2000 words in length (excluding Cover page,
Contents page and References).

The report structure and quality will also be marked, based on the criteria of quality of
communication/expression and overall structure – organisation of material and quality of
documentation.

2. A recommended report structure is shown below for your

reference
 Cover Page {clear and concise- e.g. Task B: Technical Report, Module Code,
Module Title, your name and student ID number}
 Contents Page {shows structure of report - section numbers, heading and pages}
 Introduction {very brief description of aims (general) and objectives (what is done
to achieve the aims to put report within context/sets the scene for the reader (e.g.
where does this development fit within the field)}
 Body of report {main part of the report; e.g. briefly describe the structure of GSM,
Mobile technologies types or components and their history etc}
 Conclusions {condensed version of body; briefly gives key findings to reflect your
understanding}
 References (Bibliography) {demonstration of your referencing skills}
 Appendix: screen copies of your developed models and simulation result of Task A.
Each screen copy should have a short description/title.

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3. Marking Scheme
 Technical content, depth: 10 marks
Range of source materials: 10 marks
Discussion demonstrations: 10 marks
Referencing: 10 marks
 Report structure (e.g., organisation of materials) and quality
(communication/expression) – 10 Marks

End of Task B - 50 Marks in total

In the end of this report, screen copies of your developed models and simulation
result of Task A MUST be presented (otherwise 10 marks will be deducted). Each
screen copy should have a short description/title.