EE E6762 Broadband Networks
Special Information for Summer 2002

Hi, Welcome to 6762 for the summer. You do not need to turn in summaries for the set of papers read each week of the class. Instead, your grade will depend entirely on a report that you will write at the end of the term. This differs from how grading was done during the term and is also different from how grading was done last summer.

The report is due on 8/1 by e-mail or fax

Your report should choose three topics from the list below:

In a 5-10 page report, describe the work that has been produced in the past year in three of these areas, and what you believe are the most significant advances in these areas.

Since this is a graduate-level course, you will be expected to perform a literature search through journals, conference proceedings and workshop proceedings on your own to find the relevant articles. Doing searches on Google for conference or workshop titles is a good way to locate the proceedings and paper titles (e.g., a google search on "Infocom 2002" will lead you to the site where you can scan the program of the conference. Doing searches on the author names and paper titles will often bring you to links where the titles are on-line. And of course, there is always the library...

Your report should demonstrate that you have an in-depth understanding of the work covered in class as well as of the additional readings you discuss. Just reiterating what is said in the abstract is not enough. In particular, you should explain

You must write your own report! You should also do your reference search on your own. Doing it together with someone else will limit the uniqueness of your own report, so do not explicitly do searches together or share papers.

Your report should contain complete citations of the articles you read and used and should be referenced in the same style that is done in the papers that were on the course syllabus.