COMP1797 Wireless and Mobile Technologies Contribution:

(2020/21) 50% of course

Course Leader: Coursework 2 Resit Deadline Date:

Dr Ivana Tomic Friday 16/07/2021

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• An electronic copy of your work for this coursework must be fully uploaded on the Deadline
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DETAILED COURSEWORK SPECIFICATION: This is individual coursework.

Mini-project: "Choosing the best LPWAN technology."

Scenario: You are employed as a Solution Architect for Emerging Technologies in a leading IoT
networking company. One of your main responsibilities is to architect and design solutions to meet
functional and non-functional customer requirements. Your latest project is about IoT-based smart
healthcare applications. You have been asked to architect and design a healthcare solution for
the hospital Emergency Department (ED) leveraging Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN)
devices and protocols. The solution consists of an e-healthcare platform and a number of
connected LPWAN healthcare devices (equipped with sensors) for monitoring patients' vital
parameters while in waiting rooms and during their admission to an emergency room (e.g. digital
pulse oximeters, sphygmomanometers, digital ECG devices). You have been provided with the
following customer requirements:
1. High data rates - The data is transmitted periodically in short intervals to capture the
patient's vital parameters in real-time and detect any sudden changes quickly.
2. Low delays - The real-time data is received with low delays (< 200 ms).
3. High reliability - All real-time data is successfully received by the base station (or a
gateway) and processed by the e-healthcare platform.

Task 1: Propose two potential LPWAN solutions that can be used in the above scenario. Critically
discuss why the two solutions were selected. Note: Your company is able to support Sigfox,
LoRaWAN, NB-IoT and LTE-M.
[20 marks]

Task 2: For each of the three customer requirements (high data rates, low delays, and high
reliability), critically discuss if and how each of the two proposed solutions satisfies the
requirement. Your answer should include an explanation of which solution would be more
beneficial for each of the three requirements.
[60 marks]

Task 3: Give a brief overview of two additional benefits that the customer would have if your
proposed solutions were chosen.
[20 marks]

DELIVERABLES

The final output is a report maximum 2000 words long (excluding references). The discussion
needs to be supported by appropriate references presented in the Harvard referencing style.
There is a 20% penalty if the report does not abide by the rule of a length of strictly no more than
2000 words (excluding references).

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ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

The precise marking scheme is included within the template of the paper and is repeated here
for clarity:

Task 1: 20 marks = each solution x 10 marks

Task 2: 60 marks = each requirement x 20 marks

Task 3: 20 marks = each benefit x 10 marks

Each task needs to be supported by appropriate references presented in the Harvard

referencing style.

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Criteria for 90-100 80-89 70-79 60-69 50-59 30-49 0-29
Assessment Exceptional Excellent Very Good Good Satisfactory Fail Fail
Assessment Demonstrates an Demonstrates an Demonstrates a Demonstrates There is There is a lack There is
domain 1 exceptional excellent very good overall a good satisfactory of hardly any
Demonstrate a systematic systematic understanding of understanding of evidence that understanding engagement
critical understanding of understanding of Mobile and Mobile and at least some of Mobile and with relevant
understanding of Mobile and Mobile and Wireless Network Wireless Network Mobile and Wireless technologies,
Wireless Network Wireless Network Technologies and Technologies and Wireless Network technical
the technical
Technologies and Technologies and their technical their technical Network Technologies challenges
challenges posed their technical their technical challenges. There challenges. There Technologies and their and best
by current mobile challenges. The challenges. The is evidence that is some evidence and practices technical practices.
systems and motivation and motivation and relevant theory that relevant have been challenges. The choice of
wireless rationale of a rationale of a and best practices theory and best applied and The choice of the research
communications. chosen area is chosen area are have been applied practices have supported by the research problem is not
underpinned by an underpinned by an effectively in the been applied the literature. problem lacks based on
exceptional excellent choice of area, effectively in the justifications engagement
understanding of understanding of and there is the choice of area, and is not with the
relevant theory and relevant theory and engagement with and there is some supported by literature.
best practices and best practices and the literature. engagement with the literature.
engagement with engagement with the literature.
the literature. the literature.

Assessment The assignment The assignment The assignment The assignment There is some The The
domain 2 provides provides excellent provides very provides some evidence of assignment assignment
Understand and exceptionally evidence of critical good evidence of good evidence of evaluation provides little lacks
evaluate the strong and evaluation when critical evaluation critical evaluation with respect evidence of evidence of
performance, consistent considering the when considering when considering to evaluation with evaluation
evidence of critical adequately chosen the chosen the chosen performance respect to with respect
costs, overheads
evaluation when performance performance performance metrics, cost, performance to
and trade-offs of considering the metrics, cost, metrics, cost, metrics, cost, overhead and metrics, cost, performance
different wireless adequately chosen overhead and overhead and overhead and trade-offs of overhead and metrics, cost,
and mobile performance trade-offs of the trade-offs of the trade-offs of the the used trade-offs of overhead and
communication metrics, cost, used technologies. used technologies. used technologies. the used trade-offs of
technologies. overhead and The results of the The results of the technologies. The The analysis technologies. the used
trade-offs of the analysis have been analysis have results of the is not very Not technologies.
used technologies. clearly presented in been presented in analysis have conclusive. satisfactory No
The results of the accordance with accordance with been presented Satisfactory presentation of results have
analysis have been the provided the provided mostly in presentation the results. been
clearly presented guideline. guideline. accordance with of provided.

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 in accordance with the provided the results.
the provided guideline.
guideline.

Assessment Demonstrates an Demonstrates an Demonstrates a Demonstrates There is There is a lack There is

domain 3 exceptional excellent very good overall a good satisfactory of hardly any
Be able to systematic systematic understanding of understanding of evidence that understanding engagement
evaluate understanding of understanding of mobile and mobile and at least some of mobile and with an
available mobile and mobile and wireless wireless network wireless network user wireless understanding
technologies for wireless network network design design processes design processes requirements network design of mobile and
the design and design processes processes based based on user based on the user have been processes wireless
implementation of based on user on user requirements. The requirements. The considered in based on user network
mobile and requirements. The requirements. The understanding is understanding is mobile and requirements. design
wireless networks understanding is understanding is supported by the supported by wireless No evidence of processes
according to user supported by supported by appropriate some literature. network supporting based on user
requirements. extensive extensive literature. literature. design literature. requirements.
literature. processes No evidence
and is of supporting
supported by literature.
some
literature.
Assessment The assignment The assignment The assignment The assignment There is some There is a lack There is
domain 4 provides provides excellent provides very provides some evidence that of hardly any
Be able to exceptionally strong evidence of good evidence of good evidence of at least some understanding engagement
understand and and consistent critical evaluation critical evaluation critical evaluation of the security of the security with
evaluate the key evidence of critical when considering when considering when considering aspects of the aspects of the understanding
security threats evaluation when the security the security the security chosen chosen the security
that relate to considering the vulnerability or vulnerability or vulnerability or configuration configuration. aspects of the
different mobile security vulnerability vulnerabilities of vulnerabilities of vulnerabilities of have been No evidence of chosen
and network or vulnerabilities of the chosen the chosen the chosen considered. supporting configuration.
technologies, as the chosen configuration and configuration and configuration and The literature. No evidence
well as configuration and the the appropriate the appropriate the appropriate understanding of supporting
appropriate appropriate countermeasures. countermeasures. countermeasures. is supported literature.
countermeasures. countermeasures. The The understanding The by some
The understanding is understanding is is supported by understanding is literature.
supported by supported by the appropriate supported by
extensive literature. extensive literature. some literature.
literature.

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