COURSEWORK ASSESSMENT SPECIFICATION Module Title: Principles of Wireless Mobile Networks Module Number: Module Tutor Name(s): Academic Year: 2016/17 % Weighting (to overall module): 50% Coursework Title: Ekahau Site Survey Average Study Time Required by Student: 100 study hours Dates and Mechanisms for Assessment Submission and Feedback Date of Handout to Students: 1st teaching week semester 2 Mechanism for Handout to Students: elp Date and Time of Submission by Student: Mechanism for Submission of Work by Student: Turnitin Date by which Work, Feedback and Marks will be returned to Students: Mechanism for return of assignment work, feedback and marks to students: via Gradebook/Turnitin Introduction During this assignment you will perform a number of wireless site surveys, check the health of existing wireless networks and plan and cost a new wireless deployment. You are encouraged to work informally in small groups to collect data during a survey, but your fnal report must be unique and not share anything but raw data. There are a number of distinct tasks that you must perform. The percentage of marks for each section is shown in brackets. The tasks are:1. Task 1 - Perform a planning operation using Ekahau Site Survey (ESS) on a supplied floor plan (30%) 2. Task 2 - Perform a site survey using ESS for part of the University site (30%). 3. Task 3 - Perform a planning operation using ESS for a defned University site, deploy APs and test coverage. You must provide a detailed competitive cost for your deployment (30%) A further 10% of marks will be awarded to the quality of the presentation. Your completed work will be presented as a research report. The main body of the report is limited to 2000 words. The word count must be shown on the facing page. There will be a 5% reduction per 200 words over the 2500 limit. Words on any facing page are not counted. You should put your abstract on the facing page. Submission of work The completed report is to be submitted via Turnitin on or before the hand in date shown at the start of this document. Please note, that the stated date is the last date for submission. You can submit earlier if this helps balance your personal workload. Learning Outcomes The following learning outcomes will be addressed: Knowledge & Understanding: Be able to describe, explain critcally analyse mobile wireless data communication technology. Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities: Perform a pre-deployment critical site survey. Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA) Understand the global nature of WLAN standards and design.Task 1 – Multi-floor planning using ESS (30%) You are required to perform a planning operation for a simple multi-floor environment. The floor plan details are shown in appendix 1. The building is a multi-floor (3 floors) multi-tenant ofce building and you must simulate this multi-floor environment in ESS. The 1st floor, which you are to design for, is a high occupancy area, with 100 clients requiring high speed access and 50 voip phones. The ground and 2nd floors are already occupied by tenants already using Wi-Fi. The APs for the ground and 2nd floors are shown on the plan. A survey suggests that the ground floor APs both operate on Channel 1 in B mode only. The APs on the 2nd floor operate on Channel 1 and 6 in G mode. You need to deploy APs on the 1st floor operating in the 2.4 GHz range to best support the requirements. In carrying out your simulation work, partially because the requirements are not precise, you will need to make a number of assumptions. These assumptions must be made very clear and need to be reasonable in nature. Task 2 – Performing a wireless site survey (30%) You are to perform a full ESS survey of Ellison building D and E block ground floor, including the Zone and the public area outside the Zone between Ellison building and the Gym/Go-Cafe. The client (the University) wants to ensure it has excellent wireless coverage within the building and in the space between the buildings. You only need to survey student accessible spaces. CAUTION Care must be taken carrying out the survey outside the buildings. This is a public area and you must respect other users of the space. You need to report your method, results and recommendations. Task 3 – Wireless deployment and testing (30%) Based on your results for Task 2, you are to choose one section of your area, where you believe coverage is inadequate and install one or more real access points at optimal locations. Measure the impact of the installed access point(s). In your results, you should present the coverage of your newly placed access point(s) alone, without contributions from other access points. You must also present the ESS prediction of how your access points (alone) would cover this area. Report your method, results and discussions around the results. The discussions should include costing for any additional equipment required and installation costs to provide desired highest quality coverage.Your Research Paper and Marking Scheme Although the following link refers to a social sciences research paper, much of the guidance about structure and style is appropriate for your paper, so you might fnd it helpful to read this: http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide (checked 2/1/17) It is advantageous if your report is structured in a manner that reflects the allocation of marks below: Turnitin Summary Below 10% is OK Abstract 5% Introduction 5% Task 1 20% - section total Method – description of simulation set up 5% Results – presentation of recorded results 5% Discussion - 10% Task 2 30% - section total Method – how the work was done 10% Results – what you recorded 10% Discussion – observations and recommendations 10% Tasks 3 30% - section total Method – how the work was done 10% Results – what you recorded 10% Discussion – observations, recommendations and costs 10% Overall quality of presentation 10% Penalties -5% per 200 words over 2000Appendix 1 – Floor plans23m 17m 5m Door 2.5m 9m 9m Door 2.5m 9m Door 2.5m 7.2m 5m 5m Lift shaft Ground Floor AP AP23m 17m 5m Door 2.5m 9m 9m Door 2.5m 9m Door 2.5m 7.2m 5m 5m Lift shaft 1st Floor23m 17m 5m Door 2.5m 9m 9m Door 2.5m 9m Door 2.5m 7.2m 5m 5m Lift shaft 2nd Floor AP AP .