Project Final Report

Your final project report will be in the form of a Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA) 2004 paper submission.  Follow the format provided.  The paper should be 10 pages in length.  Here is an example paper.

Your target audience students entering CSE477 (as you were at the beginning of the quarter) that are going to build on your project.  They would need to understand why it is interesting, why your work will save them a lot of time, and how to reconstruct your project.

It would be especially nice if tutorial information about specific devices and/or interfaces and how to deal with them is placed in a separate appendix so that it can be easily distributed to future students.

Below is a basic outline of the report which you should use as a guideline. Please do your best to cover all the points listed.

• Abstract.  Short description of your project, what you accomplished, and what conclusions you were able to draw.  Approx. 250 words.
  
• Introduction. Problem description including a typical scenario of use.  What problem does your project try to solve?  What is interesting or hard about this problem?
• Related Work.  What have others done?  What sources of information did you draw on?
• Approach.  How are you going about building your project?  What are the main pieces?  Why did you choose these pieces?
• Implementation.  What was hard about getting things to work?  Describe the choices you had to make that were not obvious.  What tradeoffs did you have to consider?
• Evaluation.  How well does it work?  Try to be as quantitative as possible and relate the evaluation back to the scenario.
• Conclusion and Future Work.  What are the next steps to take and why?  What lessons did you learn?  What would you differently next time?
  
• Acknowledgements.  Who helped you along the way this quarter?
• References.  Papers, magazine articles, data sheets, web resources that helped you understand the issues.  Make sure they are all cited in the body of the paper.
• Appendices.  All the material you would need to reconstruct your project: source code, schematics, installation and configuration instructions, etc.