Please Check Your Marks
All labs and assignments have been marked and the solutions and
the marking scheme posted.
The marks and marking scheme are available from the Content ->
Course Information section on the course web site. To retrieve
your marks you will need your password which was handed out with
your mid-term exam.
Please compare your marks against the marking scheme and your
marked submissions (in the Dropbox section under Feedback ->
View). The marks should reflect deductions for late submissions
and absences excused with medical certificates. Let me know if
you think I may have made an error in marking or in calculating
your mark.
In some cases the lab completion mark is based on a report
showing that the lab was substantially completed. If you
completed a lab but did not hand in a report you may have
received 0 for that lab. In this case submit the report and let
me know. You will get credit for completing the lab but not for
the report.
As explained in the course information sheet, material submitted
after I download submissions (which is always well past the
deadline and shortly before solutions are posted) will not be
marked.
The statistics for the Assignments, Labs and Midterm are shown
below. The Final Mark statistics do not include the Final Exam.
Statistic Assi- Labs Mid- Final
gnments Term Mark
(/20%) (/20%) (/11) (/60%)
minimum 5% 8% 3 33%
average 14% 16% 7.8 47%
median 15% 19% 8.0 44%
maximum 20% 19% 11 53%
The password to look up your marks is pasted to the inside front
cover of your midterm.
Change to Assignment Marking Scheme
As discussed in class and by unanimous agreement, there will be 5
assignments but only the 4 best marks will be counted.
Assignment 5 has been posted and is due Saturday May 16 so that I
can post the solutions before the start of exams.
Lab 0 - Wireshark Lab
This week's (March 16) lab is an introduction to Wireshark. This
is the same as the last lab in ELEX 3525 and is only meant for
students that have not taken 3525. It will be held on Friday at
10:30. There is no lab this week for the other set. The mark for
this lab will not be counted towards the final grade in 4550.
Students who complete the lab this week may count it as the final
lab for ELEX 3525. Labs from this point on will be held in
SW1-3555.
Midterm Exam
The midterm exam will he held on Thursday, March 19 at 11:30 AM
in SE6-209 (regular lecture time but note the room change).
It will cover material up to and including SONET (Lecture 8).
Last year's midterm and solutions are available on my course
archive site.
Room Changes
Effective Week of March 16:
Monday 12:30 SW1-2030
Tuesday 10:30 SW1-2009
Thursday 11:30 SE6-209
Additional Explanations of Block Interleaving
Since there was some confusion about how block interleavers work,
I've collected a couple of
alternative explanations from two communications textbooks.