Requirements For Project Report

(80 points, 80% of the project)

Each group must submit a project final report. The report must have a title page, main content, and references. The report should be single-column, 1 inch margins, 11-point size. The proposal is due in class on 12/3/04. To facilitate the grading of your report, please follow the suggested organization listed below. 

The title page should include

• the title of the paper or project
• group member name(s) and email address(es)
• course name, number, and instructor's name
• a maximum 300-word abstract
• three to five keywords.

For research papers, the main content of the proposal should at least include the following:

• Introduction
  • (6 points) Discuss the background and motivation of your work.
  • (6 points) Summarize the research problem
  • (8 points) Summarize the proposed approach to the problem and the results
• Related work
  • (10 points) Discuss research related to yours and make comparison if there are closely related work.
• Your approach
  • (20 points) Describe your approach in detail. You may present your result in any way you want as long as you believe it's convincing and clear.
• Validation of your approach
  • (20 points) Prove or demonstrate the effectiveness and/or efficiency of your approach. You may do this through theorems, experiments, etc.
• Conclusions and possible future work
  • (5 points) Summarize the conclusions of your work. Future work is optional.
• References
  • (5 points) List all the citations referenced in your paper. You will lose 5 points for each dangling reference (i.e., the reference not cited in the main text).

For survey papers, the main content should include the following:

• Introduction
  • (6 points) Discuss the background 
  • (6 points) Summarize the surveyed research area and explain why the surveyed area has been studied.
  • (4 points) Summarize the classification scheme you used to do the survey.
  • (4 points) Summarize the surveyed techniques with the above classification scheme.
• Survey details
  • (40 points) Present the surveyed techniques using the classification scheme in details. 
  • (10 points) Identify the trends in the surveyed area. Give evidences for your decision.
• Conclusions and possible future work
  • (5 points) Summarize the conclusions of your survey.
• References
  • (5 points) List all the citations referenced in your paper. You will lose 5 points for each dangling reference (i.e., the reference not cited in the main text).

For implementation oriented project, the main content should include the following:

• Introduction
  • (6 points) Discuss the background
  • (6 points) Summarize the basis of your implementation
  • (4 points) Summarize the design of your implementation.
  • (4 points) Summarize the validation of your implementation (e.g., test, demonstration)
• Implementation details
  • (10 points) Architecture description (not required for implementation of crypto algorithms).
  • (10 points) Description of the basis of your implementation (e.g., algorithms, protocols, etc.)
  • (10 points) Description of your implementation.
• Testing (or performance evaluation if you implemented crypto algorithms)
  • (5 points) Description of the testing (or evaluation) environments
  • (5 points) Description of the testing (or evaluation) process
  • (10 points) Description of the testing (or evaluation) results
• Conclusions and possible future work
  • (5 points) Summarize the conclusions of your survey.
• References
  • (5 points) List all the citations referenced in your paper. You will lose 5 points for each dangling reference (i.e., the reference not cited in the main text).