Grading will consist of four primary parts:

25% Homework assignments
You will have four homework assignments which will guide you to completing the class project. The assignments must be turned in on the date due.
25% Assignment: Network Profile
Each student will be responsible to generate a profile for a specific type of network traffic. Each student must identify all the relevant contributors to their assigned traffic type, provide a spreadsheet summarizing the activity, and provide a writeup which describes all significant network dependencies. The final writeup is expected to be an incomplete work as follow-on projects depend on this.
25% Assignment: Network Usage Patterns
For this assignment, the student will evaluate a network profile over time. The profile will be refined and improved, and any significant diurnal, weekly or other trends will be identified.
25% Assignment: Situational Awareness Model
In the final assignment, all individual projects will be consolidated into a single document. Additional work will be done to assess interdependencies, examine the network's reaction to external events and to project any significant trends that may be in the network's near future.