COIT20264 Network Design(HT2, 2018)

Assessment Item 2 - Written Assessment

Objectives

This assessment task relates to Unit Learning Outcomes 3 to 5 and can be undertaken in a group of up to 4 students or individually. Distance students can form groups with on-campus students as well.In this assessment task, you willcomplete your final network design report for the scenario given on page 3based on the feedback you received on your Assessment Item 1 report. You are also expected to contribute to the Group Discussion Forum in Moodle by finding the answers to the recommended weekly group discussion questions.

Assessment Task

Starting from the logical network design that you completed in Assessment Item 1, you are required to undertake the physical design of the network takinginto consideration the feedback that you receivedon your Assessment Item 1report. You are also required tocomplete your final networkdesign report.

Your report should include the following:

1.      Executive Summary

2.      Table of Contents

3.      Project Goal

4.      Project Scope

5.      Business Goals and Constraints

6.      Technical Goals and Tradeoffs

7.      Table of User Communities, Data Stores, Network Applications and Traffic Flows

8.      The explanation and justification of your logical network design

9.      The logical network diagram(s) including addressing and naming

10.  The list of routing and switching protocols, and security mechanisms

11.  The physical network diagram

12.  The table of networking & communication devices and applications required, including the cost of each of them, the IP addresses, the product numbers as well as the approximate total cost

13.  The explanation and justification of 12 above

14.  A test plan that can be used to test the new network

15.  One detailed test script for your test plan

Note:You must follow the Harvard citation and referencing guidelines when writing your report.

Check the unit website at least once a week for further information relating to this assessment task. Please ensure that you write your report in your own words to avoid possible plagiarism and copyright violation. You can understand the Plagiarism Procedures by following the corresponding link in the CQUniversity Policies section of the Unit Profile. 

Assessment Criteria

In this assessment task, you are assessed on your ability to undertake the design of a network containing logical and physical designs for the given scenario using the top-down network design methodology, and prepare a complete report of your design. The marking criteria for this assessment task are provided on page 4.

You need to familiarise yourself with the marking criteria to ensure that you have addressed them when preparing your logical network design report. 

Submission

Each one of you in the group must upload the same written report to Moodle on or before the due date. 

The Scenario for Network Design Assessment Tasks

Your company in Australia specialises in designing networks for local and international clients. Your company has signed a contract with NTN private nursing school located in Sydney, Australia to design their network.

The main campus of NTN is located in Sydney and the satellite campuses are located in Darwin and Cairns. NTN has made agreements with three private hospitals in Sydney, Darwin and Cairns to provide the internship and training to the students of the nursing school. All three private hospitals have Wi-Fi access points that can provide a minimum of 100Mbps data rate to a user. The 2-storey buildings of main and satellite campuses are less than 200m away from the corresponding private hospitals. Each campus building is approximately 15m wide and 40m long.

Lecture, tutorial and laboratory classes are conducted in the campus in Sydney and they are live-video streamed to the satellite campuses forming a virtual classroom. The instructors and the students in the satellite campuses can directly communicate with the lecturer in the Sydney campus when a virtual class is in progress. At any time, there will be at most 200 students in the main campus and a maximum of 100 students in each satellite campus participating in a virtual class. However, these numbers are expected to double within the next couple of years.

NTN also plans to provide a telemedicine and healthcare service to the community in a radius of about 200km from each satellite campus by having a small mobile team of doctors and nursing students. The mobile team in Darwin as well as in Cairns provide consultations and services to the needy patients at their homes. The mobile teams travel around in a specially equipped vehicles called the home-care vehicles, however, unlike in the conventional ambulance services, they do not carry the emergency patients to the hospitals. The mobile team should be able to scan/photograph and send the reports of the patients immediately to the corresponding private hospital and communicate directly with the medical staff there via the network in the home-care vehicle.

Using the top-down network design methodology, you are to design the networks of the main campus, satellite campuses and the home-care vehicles.You are allowed to make assumptions in relation to business and technical goals if they are really required for undertaking your network design. Each step of your network design should clearly explain and justify how you satisfy the business and technical goals.

Note: This scenario was created by Dr Rohan de Silva on 12thDecember 2014and no part of this scenario should be reproduced by any individual or organisationwithout written permission from CQUniversity, Australia.