Comms IV Assignment

Introduction

There is one major assignment for this course and it counts as 10% towards the final mark. The exams counts as the other 90%.

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Deadlines

Start date: You will be ready to start the assignment when the lectures have reached the end of Section 5.

Hand in date: Hand into the Departmental office by 2pm on xxth May, 2008.

The Rules

• Rule 1: The top caption of every Matlab graph must contain your Student ID and name.

• Rule 2: You must submit fully commented Matlab code with your assignment. The header should contain a comment with your name, date, and student ID.

• Rule 3: As well as a hard copy, you must attach a CD pouch to your report and insert a CD of your whole project directory containing all the Matlab files, log files, Word files, pdf files, and any files relating to this assignment.

• Rule 4: When you submit your hardcopy plus CD, you must hand it into the Departmental office and ask for it to be date & time stamped. Submissions without a stamp will receive zero marks.

• Rule 5: Any slightest violation of Rules 1-4 will receive zero marks.

Plagiarism

Your submission should contain a detailed description of your procedures, any theoretical analysis necessary, the graphical plots specified, and your MATLAB code with plenty of comments. The assignment is expected to be your own work, copying of another person's work will attract zero marks and you should carefully note the policy on plagiarism.

Expectations

The emphasis in this assignment is to attempt a working simulation and does not require extensive use of Matlab functions or fancy programming. However, if you use “high level” Matlab functions, make sure you understand precisely what they do and set the parameters to appropriate values. It is often more straightforward to use simple functions.

Obviously a good working simulation will attract marks. But at the end of the day, I’m looking for a well structured methodology and evidence that you had an exploratory attitude to the problem. I don’t want to just see a neat solution; I want to see you take “ownership” of the assignment by describing your exploratory steps to arriving at your final code. For example, you may want make intermediate plots to convince yourself individual parts of your code are working, you may want to plot relevant formulas and functions to test how they behave. You may want to generate some trial plots that test how the random number generator behaves or how phase unwrapping behaves (for example) and so on. You are encouraged to put your investigations and “sanity check” plots into your report to show you really owned this assignment.

If you mess up the assignment it is still possible to get reasonable marks, if you diligently show the steps you took to gain ownership and the steps you took to explore the problem space.

Marking

• Extra bonus marks will be given for exploratory discussion and exploratory graphs that showed you owned the assignment.

• If you receive 100%, it does not necessarily mean your final simulation was correct. It may mean the bonuses you accumulated outweighed the marks you lost. Marks over 100% will be truncated at 100%.

• Zero will be given if there are any signs of copying or if any of Rules 1-4 are broken.

• Late submissions will lose 10% per day late. Only concession is a medical certificate.

See Also

• Communications IV

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