CPCS 473 (Fall 2015/2016)

Faculty of Computing and Information Technology

King Abdulaziz University

Project (10 marks)

Proposal Submission Due: 12th Nov 2015

The project can be done in a group up to 2 students. Each group must submit a project proposal that
includes an explanation of the project including: expected outcomes, a description of the work to be
carried out, resources and references needed. The proposal shall include the names of the team members
as well.

Final Project and Report Due: 17th Dec 2015

The final report should be a well-presented technical report discussing your project. The final report may
include parts of your progress report. The written report should be 10 pages length. Each group will
present their project during the week of the due date of the final project.

Overview and suggestions

Students are to select a project they are qualified to undertake. The following is a list of suggested
proposals:

1. Hospital Network Design

2. Network design proposal for airport
3. Network design with multiple VLANs and Single DHCP Server
4. Small business network design with guest network
5. Campus network design

Brief description about each proposal is given below.

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 1. Hospital Network Design

Project Scope

A network proposal has to be designed for a hospital which has the following. There is a main block
and three wards in the campus. The main block is the administrative block where registration of new
patients takes place. The main block has 5 floors. The hospital has identified hospital management
software, which should be accessible by the employees. The software is installed on a server at the
administrative block. At the ground floor, there are 15 computers at the billing section. At other floors,
there is one computer user each. The farthest distance between the computer on the top most floor and
the ground floor is less than 70 meters. The wards have 5 floors each, with 10 computers in the ground
floor of each ward. The distance between the wards and the blocks are less than 80 Meters. The
computers in the wards may be increased based on future expansion plans.

Network requirements

1. Hardware requirement analysis in main block with quantity.

2. Hardware requirements analysis in wards.
3. The employees should receive dynamic IP addressing from a central server.
4. Network should be loop free at Layer 2
5. Every computer should be able to access the hotel management software from each of the location
using a fixed IP address.
6. IP Network design table.
7. Identify configurations on the hardware wherever appropriate.
8. Network topology diagram with necessary equipment’s

Tentative Report contents:

1. Project Scope
2. Network requirements
3. Network requirement analysis (Main and wards)
4. Hardware analysis
5. Configuration guidelines
6. IP Network design table.
7. Network topology diagram
8. Network Testing and verification.
9. Hardware list with quantity

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 2. Network design proposal for airport

Project Description

The project is to design a proposal for setting up a network in an airport. The airport has three departments.

1. Airport authority
2. Flight service providers
3. Guests.

The airport authority maintains a server which handles the flight management controls. The flight service
providers should have access only to the specific server in the airport authority network and not to any other
systems. The guest users should have wireless access to a high speed internet connection, which should be
shared among all the users in all the departments.

The wireless access should be using a common password. The guest users should not have access to the other
two departments. The users should obtain IP addresses automatically. The airport authority has 20 users, the
flight service providers have 40 users and the maximum numbers of guests are estimated to be 100.

Networking Requirement.

1.The active networking components (Routers, switches, wireless access points etc) with quantity.
2.The IP network design for each department.
3.Creating and mapping IP networks with vlans.
4.Analysis, identification and explanation of methodologies to use for access restriction and internet sharing.
5.Dynamic IP addressing design for all the networks.
6.Identify the configuration and features, wherever appropriate, which is required on the active components to
setup the network.
7.Network topology diagram.

Tentative Report Contents

1. Introduction
2. Networking Requirement
3. Network Design strategy
4. VLAN and IP Network Design
5. Requirement analysis of active networking components (Routers, switches, access points, DHCP
Server)
6. Network implementation plan
7. Network Topology Diagram
8. Network Configuration and guidelines
a. Switch configuration (VLAN, Trunking)
b. Router configuration (VLAN sub interface, Access lists)
c. DHCP configuration (Scope creation with screen shot)
d. Access point, server configuration guidelines.
9. Hardware inventory list.

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 3. Network design with multiple VLANs and Single DHCP Server

Project Scope

To design and configure a network for an organization with multiple departments, finance, hr and
marketing, where all users in the department receive appropriate dynamic IP address from Windows
2008 DHCP Server.

Each department uses different IP network address. The organization uses Cisco switches and routers.

Project Requirements

1.Design respective vlans for different departments.

2.Design network addresses for each departments.
3.Map the network address with respective vlans.
4.Identify configuration required on Cisco routers and switches to create vlans and intervlan routing.
5.Identify configuration required on Windows 2008 DHCP server to provide dynamic IP address to
users belonging to respective vlans from the specific network address range.
6.Identify configuration required on the Cisco router for DHCP specific design.
7.The users in all the departments should be able to access each other after receiving appropriate IP
addresses from the DHCP Server.

Tentative Report Contents

1. Project Scope
2. Project Requirements
3. Hardware and Software
4. Network Design strategy
5. Network Topology Diagram
6. IP and VLAN Mapping.
7. Network Configuration
a. Switch configuration (VLAN creation on switch,Switch port configuration for respective VLAN’s,
Trunk port configuration on appropriate port.
b. Router configuration (Configure vlans with respective IP addresses, IP Routing Configuration, IP
Helper-address configuration on router)
c.DHCP Server configuration (Screenshots for Scope creation for different network addresses.
8. Network Design Verification.

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 4. Small business network design with guest network

Project Scope

A small business network has to be designed for an organization. The organization has occasional guest
users (Max 10) visiting the office. There are a total of 50 users in the organization. A FTP server is also
available for sharing files.

Network requirements.

1.Separate subnet for guest and LAN network.

2.The guest network should be restricted to access only FTP service on the FTP server and all other
access to the LAN network should be blocked.
3.IP Network Design
4.Identify the hardware – Switches and Routers.
5.Configuration details on hardware

Tentative Report Contents

1. Project Title
2. Project Scope
3. Network requirement
4. Network planning
5. IP Network design table
6. Network Topology diagram with IP addresses
7. Network Integration plan
8. Network configuration (Router interface and ACL configuration with explanation)
9. Network Testing and verification procedure
10. Hardware and Software

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 5. Campus network design

Project Scope

A campus network design for a college. There are 100 users in the college. 30 users in the main
building, 30 users in bldg 1, and 40 users in bldg 2. Every building has a lobby which is 200 sqft open
space, where wireless access to the network is required. Only authorized personal should have access to
the wireless network.

The distance between bldg 1 and the main building is 300 mtrs. The distance between bldg 2 and the
main building is 90 mtrs. The distance between bldg 1 and bldg 2 is 70 mtrs. A high speed cable
internet connection is available in the main building which needs to be shared among the users.

The necessary equipments and appropriate topology required for the campus network design along with
the IP address schema, IP address management, secure wireless access, internet sharing, features and
services should be worked out. A bill of material should be included with products from Microsoft,
Cisco, D-LINK or Netgear with appropriate quantity which can be used for setting up of the campus
infrastructure.

Tentative Report Contents

1. Project scope
2. Campus diagram
3. Network requirement analysis (Understanding the hardware and quantity required to setup the
network)
4. Network diagram with appropriate components (Includes the make and model number of required
hardware)
5. Network and system integration methodology
6. IP network design guidelines (Guidelines for IP address management and usage on the network)
7. Features and Services ( The services and features required to be setup and configured on the
identified hardware for the solution to work)
8. Bill of material (Includes equipment, model and quantity)

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